Windows upgrade available in India

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Win 8 is well designed for tablets. On phones and tablets the home screen looks very nice with large icons to click and use the applications. Hence it makes very much sense for smart phones where people like to access their applications faster.

But on computers desktops, too many shortcuts make the desktop look too much of clutter. Because there will be shortcuts to key folders, important documents and most-used programs. One would never like to re-learn using their systems which they have been using for a long time for ages. For example, for a simple task of shutting down a computer, today we are going to start menu and select shutdown from the menu. But with windows 8, we have to hover over the “Zoom” icon in the lower right corner, then select the “Settings” icon, and then finally we can find “Shutdown” option somewhere there inside. Maybe it will make more sense on tablets and mobile phones, which you rarely need to shut down. But it doesn't make much sense on the desktop.

It is a nice cloud integration synching to Windows mobile devices. The same thing can be achieved by Google Docs. But if the internet connection goes down abruptly, we cannot access the documents. But on Windows 8 we can continue working. Hence the usage of windows phones and tablets improve the productivity and efficiency.

But the current market is split between Apple’s iPhones and its iPads android devices. Most of the users do not like using windows mobile devices.

Since Microsoft is planning to stop supporting Windows XP, it is better to start getting rid of those old machines and upgrade to systems running on modern OS by switching to the latest one with the latest upgrade.

Still 43 percent of computers are running on Windows XP. This shows how dominant XP is out there and companies never like sudden changes in their environments since they don’t want to support multiple operating systems and do not want to deal with the new software and hardware compatibility issues. They do not prefer to train the employees on two different platforms. Apart from this, Microsoft is not that great in its latest products. So, considering the major changes in windows 8, it is better to wait until it is proven stable and user friendly. 

It is easier to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 than Windows XP to Windows 7 with less number of hardware and software compatibility issues.

More incentive to be paid to upgrade to Windows 7 and upgrade to Windows 8. Besides there might be other compatibility issues like Microsoft may restrict or limit the third party browsers, such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.