Who would have thought that as the end-of-life of Windows XP nears, the operating system would see a surge in its market share rather than a decline? According to latest data from Net Application Windows XP has registered a growth of 0.25 percentage points in January over December market share – something that is not huge, but surprising none the least.
Windows XP’s share in December 2013 stood at 28.98 percent and in January it stood at 29.23 percent.
Windows 8.1 also managed to leapfrog Vista for the first time since its launch and now the latest operating system from Microsoft sits at 3.95 percent atop Vista which has 3.3 percent market share as of January 2014. Windows 7 leads the desktop operating system chart with a comfortable lead of 47.49 percent while Window 8 garnered 6.63 percent share.
While Windows 7 powers nearly half of all desktops in the world, the soon to die Windows XP is still powering over a quarter of all systems in the world – a sign that individuals and organisations are still reluctant to move to another operating system.
Read: Why is Microsoft backtracking on Windows XP end of life?
Microsoft has been trying all sorts of tactics including warnings to motivate and even force users off of Windows XP and to adopt newer platforms, but quite a few moves have backfired. Recently Microsoft announced that alongside Windows XP April 8 deadline, it will also stop providing downloads of Microsoft Security Essential for Windows XP.
This announcement didn’t go down well with existing XP users and business users were specifically not pleased with this. Redmond had to backtrack on this and revealed that it is extending support till July 2015.
Windows XP is the best OS for PC ever and i think if Microsoft again think about it and make a OS like that is pretty, simple and amazing then no one will be able to beat Microsoft. But if microsoft makes os like windows 8 then it has no future except it seems good in windows phones.
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Why do such a huge number of people hate W8 and W8.1? Must be “no reason”. People must just dislike it for the sake of disliking it. After all… it’s such a great idea trying to FORCE me to use a (poor) tablet/phone style interface on my business 2-monitor desktop PC.