Expert claims that users didn’t want to move from XP because of the Vista disaster

Apr 7, 2014 19:21 GMT  ·  By
Windows Vista is considered one of the biggest failures in Microsoft's history
   Windows Vista is considered one of the biggest failures in Microsoft's history

Windows XP is about to get the axe, but nearly 28 percent of computers worldwide are still running it, despite all warnings coming from Redmond and emphasizing the risks of staying with an unsupported platform.

Terry Willis, head of information security at charity Age UK, has found who’s at fault for the fact that so many users are refusing to move to a newer operating system.

“A big problem is that Vista was so terrible, so companies just didn’t move off XP,” he said according to ITPro.

Basically, he claims that Windows Vista, which was the first OS version launched after Windows XP, was such a disaster that users actually refused to upgrade, so staying with Windows XP was the only option.

Since it came to the market just after Windows XP, Vista’s main purpose was to convince XP users to upgrade, but it pretty much failed to do it because of the sluggish performance that turned it into one of the software giant’s biggest failures ever.

Windows 7, on the other hand, convinces many to upgrade, but many people are still running XP. Just like Vista, Windows 8 doesn’t seem to help too much, especially because moving to this particular OS version also involves hardware upgrades that make the entire process a lot more expensive.