Even though Microsoft announced the retirement of Windows XP, it is still pretty much popular with the users. According to a Forrester survey, Windows XP is still the most widely used operating system with as much as 87.1 % of the companies surveyed using it. XP Hurting Vista Badly:

According to a recent Forrester survey, less than 10 percent of the 2,300 companies surveyed use Vista. Forrester says 87.1 percent of companies surveyed continue to use Windows XP.

As per my analysis of the server logs of my site/blog and the general analysis of the data available on the web, I have found one thing and one thing only. By delaying in bringing Windows Vista to the consumers, Microsoft may have sounded the death knell for it’s latest operating system even before it’s launch. Actually the non-availability of a new version to the best version of Windows to-date, Windows XP, has hurt not only the consumers but Microsoft too. The result is easily visible before you. Windows XP reigns supreme while Vista struggles to make friends with consumers.

Every once in 2-3 (or in Vista’s case more than5 years) we are forced to upgrade to a new operating system, courtesy technology advancements, coupled with commercial and shareholder’s profit interests .

So, to deal with this really silly phase, I have devised a strategy which helps me to upgrade my system to a new OS smoothly. I have always been cautious in doing an upgrade (no, not money wise my friend!).

It seems that Apple, Inc. is finally waking up to the battle call. After it allowed the Windows operating system to run on Macs powered by Intel via the Bootcamp manager, it has now released a beta of the very popular Safari browser (it is still a beta release).

I applaud Apple for this. Actually, this should have been done a long time back. The execs. up there right under Steve Jobs didn’t really care before since the sales of the iPod had brought the company back from red.

I hope it will serve our interests by saving us from the trouble of using Internet Explorer at all!