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Windows XP Pro
versus Windows 7 Analysis
Assessing if the design objectives of security and usability in Windows 7 Professional are leading to greater adoption of this operating system and motivating small businesses standardized on Windows XP Professional to migrate is the intent of this study. Microsoft has defined security and usability as the two highest priority design objectives of Windows 7 Professional. These two areas represent the primary weaknesses of Windows XP Professional. The research questions focus on how small business owners and CEOs, in addition to Chief Information Officers (CIO) in the company are making the decision of whether to migrate from Windows XP Professional to Windows 7 Professional. Perceptions of cost, security, usability and value were included in the survey, which included eleven total questions. Questions one and two were qualifiers for survey participation and covered the number of employees in the company and gross revenues per year. The maximum thresholds on these amounts where 500 employees and up to $500,000 in annual revenue, with the primary respondents being defined as CEO, CIO and senior management. The questions focused on whether or not the company had migrated from Windows XP Professional to Windows 7 Pro, and if they had not, what their timeframes were for making the transition. Factors that led to the company transitioning from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro were captured as part of the research instrument, which was a survey. An initial sample of 500 small businesses was contacted and 487 met the criterion to be included in the sample. Manufacturing, computers, financial, education and transportation industries were the most represented in the sample of small businesses. 73% of respondents mentioned that they were only somewhat satisfied with Windows XP Pro. Cost, while not a primary consideration, was a factor in all decisions to migrate to Windows 7 Pro from Windows XP Pro. The Internet was used 67% of the time for information and technical magazines, 22%. The conclusion is that the majority of small businesses in the sample see the value of Windows 7 Pro over Windows XP Pro and have equated security and usability with greater explicit value in the operating system.
Using this index, XP outperformed Windows 7 in almost every category. This test found that XP would be better for running games, but the author noted that newer games that require DirectX 10 or 11 will not run on XP. Of course, some newer software will not run on XP at all such as Windows Live Movie Maker. It would be unrealistic to expect newer software that was developed long
It also offered a relatively faster booting experience than its predecessors. This OS was widely accepted and became the standard OS for workstations in the industry and the personal computers at home. For Windows Vista, although it was earlier stated that it would be much more reliable and secure than any other previous versions of Windows, it was not well received by the it professionals and the industry for
Windows Comparison: Windows 2000 Pro and XP Desktop Comparison OS Availability According to Douglas Ludens of About.com, with the release of Windows XP Professional and its home-based XP Desktop Comparison, Microsoft finally delivered on its long-given promise of creating a functional system for both home and professional use. However, there still are substantial differences between the two systems that home and professional users must keep in mind. Windows 2000 Professional is
On this specific aspect of design guidelines, Apple pioneered the development of graphical interface guidelines with the launch of the Macintosh in the 1980s which was promptly followed by Microsoft's Windows development team. While both operating system development teams have taken their own approaches to interpreting and fine-tuning the graphical standards as first defined by Apple, the depth of ergonomics and usability test to the application level is more
Microsoft Vista Physical vs. Digital Products -- Physical products are those that can be touched, felt, have physical presence, must be produced, warehoused, packaged, shipped and purchased. However, physical products are most certainly not limited to brick and mortar stores. The Internet has opened up an entirely new world for commerce online -- in both physical and virtual worlds with e-Commerce. E-Commerce is the buying and selling of products and services
45). There are also important racial issues that are examined throughout "A Touch of Evil"; these are accomplished through what Nerrico (1992) terms "visual representations of 'indeterminate' spaces, both physical and corporeal"; the "bordertown and the half-breed, la frontera y el mestizo: a space and a subject whose identities are not fractured but fracture itself, where hyphens, bridges, border stations, and schizophrenia are the rule rather than the exception" (Nericcio,