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		davidgerard on July 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft’s shares sink by more than 10% To be fair, Windows XP use is moving to Windows 7 - just so people can have 4GB or 8GB of memory on their work PC. Not Windows 8, but Windows 7.

300bps on July 19, 2013 | [–]

This is precisely what fueled my employer (19,000 employees) to do a mass update of Windows XP to Windows 7. We'll probably skip 8 like we did Vista and go to 8.1 or more likely 9.

The 3 GB of usable memory you're limited to with 32-bit Windows XP is very restrictive.

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