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Are people still using Windows XP and Windows 7? Yes, and here's why

When Windows 10 went out of support last month, roughly ten years after release, many were confused about whether to upgrade or keep running their existing iteration. Experts who recommended upgrading ...
Hackaday

Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11

Despite faster CPUs, RAM and storage, today’s Windows experience doesn’t feel noticeably different from back in the 2000s when XP and later Windows 7 ruled the roost. To quantify this feeling, ...
ExtremeTech

A Windows XP User Is Running Windows 11 in a Virtual Machine

A Reddit user figured out how to run Windows 11 on a Windows XP computer using a virtual machine. The experiment was conducted on a Windows XP x64 system, utilizing VirtualBox 5.2.44 with Certificate ...
Ars Technica

Windows 11’s adoption continues to lag Windows 10’s, but it’s hard to compare

As we’ve written before, Windows 11’s adoption among PC users has been a bit slower than Windows 10’s, and that has continued into the operating system’s second year. Internal Microsoft data obtained ...

Only Windows 7 and 8 users will be able to upgrade to Windows 10, older systems will require a complete format

Upgrading operating systems is always an exciting event, it almost feels like the device you’re upgrading gets a breath of fresh air. The good news is that anyone running Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 ...