I upgraded to 7 from XP a couple years ago. I like 7. Win 8 is garbage. We'll see about 10.

@geraltitude: What's this about 8 being Vista 2? I've never had, nor heard of, any major problems with it.

Yeah I'm still using Windows 7. I've not seen any reason to upgrade.

Nah it's just you.

@believer258: there's nothing wrong with Win 8, but it's adoption rate, both in enterprise and consumer markets, can only be compared to Vista. For Windows, enterprise is king. But anyways basically 8 should have taken over where 7 left off. But it didn't. People stuck with 7, by and large. Same thing that happened with Vista. It should have taken over, but it didn't, people stuck with XP. In the case of Vista it was truly fucked. In the case of 8 not so much.

A ton of people still use Windows 7. It's a solid version.

No reason to upgrade Windows 7 until DX12 becomes a big thing. Windows 8/10 boot faster, but after that, they're all very similer.

I've been rocking Windows 7 since the college discount thingy. Windows 8.1 seems fine after fiddling with it on other computers, but I am super happy with 7 for now. Considering that Windows 10 will be free I'll probably upgrade just to enjoy the longer support.

I had 28 days of uptime until some random thing restarted my computer, probably an update. So I can't complain about 7's stability.

Still on 7. Never had a reason to go to 8 or 8.1. Windows 10 looks promising though. I think I'll switch assuming that Windows 10 doesn't implode after launch like Vista did.

Windows 7 here! I only have a laptop right now, I bought it a few months before Windows 8 came out and I'm happy with it! I'll probably buy a new laptop and desktop later this year after Windows 10 comes out, and put/leave 10 on both.

Windows RT :D

:D

I have 2 machines, one is running Windows 7 and one is running Windows 8.1. Windows 8 is fine. Windows 8 can be quite annoying at times, because all the settings options are behind some unfamiliar touch-screen like interface, which can be confusing locating things that I have been doing in windows since '95. The main hurdle though, is getting passed Metro UI, and I use Classic Shell for that.

There are things that just work better in Windows 8, and somethings that just don't work at all. For instance, syncing PS4 controllers via Bluetooth is way easier in Windows 8 than 7. There are a bunch of work arounds to get it working right in windows 7...Same machine with same BT adapter running windows 8 and it just syncs on the first try. However, with Windows 8 the WIFI would drop connection after like 20 seconds and go into limited mode before I installed the intel wifi drivers. Works afterwards, but I know there are a bunch of people that still have issue with Windows 8.1 and wifi.

Yup, Windows 7 user here. Windows 8 didn't look like a worthwhile upgrade.

I wont change until I have seen sufficient testing to show that compatibility for old stuff is at least the same as Win7.

This. I'll wait till I can get some decent drivers for my hardware and for software support to increase.

I really like Windows 7, but for me I feel like there are now good reasons for an upgrade.

8.1 for me on my desktop when I'm using windows (I dual boot with Ubuntu). First thing I did was download the classic shell. I do run 7 on my laptop, as that is a couple years old.

Windows 7 is still the most used OS. We'll see about Win10 but Win7 works fine. I don't like how Win8 looks so I am unsure about Win10 as well.

Yup, still on 7. 6 years isn't all that crazy, I was on XP for about that long I think.

I have a pretty old, but still chugging desktop with win7 installed. Never enjoyed the look of win8 and never really had a reason to upgrade. win10 is tempting, but I feel like I should wait before jumping in head first with the upgrade.

Windows 7 has been one of the best things Microsoft has done IMO. I'll probably cautiously upgrade to Win10 though!

I like my Windows 7.

Same. Always got the impression a lot of hate for Windows 8 came/comes from people who either have never used it or have used it only briefly. I say -most- as it's obviously perfectly reasonable to prefer 7 over 8 but there's nothing inherently wrong with 8.

Agreed. There's not much of a reason to drop 7 for 8 (though I think it is supposed to be faster, idk exactly). Anyways it's perfectly fine. Hyperbole on the internet! Surprising!

Yep, it works fine so no reason to upgrade yet.

Didn't care for 8 so much but once 8.1 came out I've been a fan for the most part. Some navigation is stupid and frustrating but I love how fast it boots and can do certain things. I will upgrade to 10 as soon as it is available.

Yeah on both of my computers, but I'll upgrade my desktop to 10 when that comes out.

At work they just upgraded me from Windows XP to Windows 7. Heh.

Wait what happened with Windows 9? Is that just not a thing?

Still using Windows 7, didn't feel the need to upgrade to date.

Is this some sort of weird joke? Windows 7 is still the best OS on the market from the all around perspective. I have been using it since the day it came out and have no intention to change unless Windows 10 is really good.

WIN 7 FO' LIFE

I have two PCs, one running 7 and one 8.1.

7's great but 8.1 (once you get rid of Metro, I lasted about a day) is, for me anyway, better. With an SSD I boot into a fully usable OS in 10 seconds and I've had no problems with old game compatibility that I didn't have with 7.

Heck, I even use the weather app.

Been messing around with the W10 Beta and I like what I see. Still not sold on what they've done to the start menu but that's not a biggie. Will probably upgrade pretty quickly once it's released and reports are in.

Running 7, will upgrade to 10.

I'm currently using Windows 7 on two of my machines (got an Windows 8 tablet and an old Vista laptop too), and I'll most certainly upgrade to Windows 10 on all machines besides the laptop, since Vista isn't covered by the free upgrade thing.

Well, the thing was that the changes Windows 8 did to the UI didn't make anything better for non-touchscreen users. It wasn't terrible though, and the people who bought Windows 8 machines and then downgraded to Windows 7 are crazy, but I certainly don't think Windows 8 improved anything on the usability side.

Yeah still on Windows 7, I don't see much of a reason to upgrade yet.

@fisk0: Like I said I like the OS but I agree with you. It just felt faster, which was enough for me.

Maybe I just settle but I've been happy with Windows for a while. If it just runs better, is more secure, etc I'm pretty happy. The UI changes didn't piss me off at all either. just adapted pretty quickly.

I get why people wouldn't feel the need to upgrade at all.

@hayt: Is that list from Steam? Otherwise, I don't see how XP could be that low. It would seem the majority of PCs worldwide are still on XP or 2000, 98, 98SE, ME. First world countries, XP/Vista/7/8.1 would be more evenly matched. First world users on a high end gaming PC platform (Steam), yeah, 7 and 8 would be more likely.

Still using 7. Haven't seen any reason to change, to be honest.

I still use 7. There's absolutely no reason for me to go to 8 right now. I'll wait to switch to Windows 10.

@rachelepithet: That looks like a Steam user survey report.

Still rocking 7 here. As an aside, I didn't change OSes until 7 came out and I was still rocking XP. So, I hope 10 is worth the update.

Had to format the PC after a CPU upgrade and decided to buy a cheap 8.1 license to try it out.

And it's not bad at all once you set it up right with stuff like classic shell, no need to use that start screen nonsense.

There are some neat things like right clicking the start menu brings up lots of useful shortcuts like "programs and features" or "device manager" plus I really like the new task manager, and it does seem to be a bit faster.

Though really there's no reason to "upgrade" to it, had I not formatted I would still be using 7,

Yep I'm still using Windows 7, and while I'm definitely upgrading to windows 7 (solely because of DirectX 12) I'm not going to upgrade right away until I know games are 100% compatible with win10 first before going over too fast and find half my games don't work. This goes hand in hand with various other driver support as well like sound drivers and various other programs, photoshop, OBS ect..

On Windows 8.1 here. I was able to get an upgrade for £25 for Windows 8 so I thought, why not? 8.1 improved things greatly from 8 though and everyone running Windows 7 and up will get W10 for free.

Sadly going to have to upgrade to 10 while it's free for that DX12 support. Does anyone know if an OS "upgrade" will require me to re-install all my programs? Hate the hassle of reinstalling everything, which I recently went through when my separate program drive failed.

I'm still using 7 in the sense that 8 is basically just 7 but faster.

According to steam's hardware surveys

46,67 % still use win7 64 bit
28,73 % use 8.1 64 bit.

I still use windows 7, and I'll probably jump on 10 when it gets released.

Only use Windows 7 x64 Enterprise at work. We use that in conjunction with Active Directory for all our users. Been using Windows 10 for my main & gaming desktop, and have been very pleased with it so far. I run Windows 8.1 x64 Enterprise on my Surface Pro 3.

Windows 7 isn't close to obsolete yet. There's still a huge number and majority of Windows users that use it on a daily basis. It's a great operating system. Windows 8.1 and 10 are much faster and more efficient operating systems than Windows 7, but they come with their negatives/drawbacks.