savvaspc t1_iychrlc wrote on November 30, 2022 at 11:16 AM

Reply to comment by UlteriorCulture in Our kids will see windows 7 the same way we saw Windows xp when we were young by MikeL1412

Windows XP started in 2001 and the last security update was released in 2014. For Windows 7, these dates are 2009 and 2020 respectively.

XP became very popular around 2002 and was very widely used until at least 2010. Vista didn't persuade a lot of people, so around 2010 the change over to 7 started. Then 8 was a flop, so the next big movement was around 2016-17 towards Windows 10 (which was released in 2015).

To sum up, the popularity of 7 started ~8 years after XP. I learned XP when I was 11. I would have to have a kid when I was 8 if I wanted the kid to experience 7 the same way I did with XP.