microsoft Believe It or Not But Windows XP Increased Its Market Share Last Month

[vissha]

Believe It or Not But Windows XP Increased Its Market Share Last Month

 

 

Stats show Windows XP is not dead just yet

 

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Microsoft pulled support for Windows XP in April 2014, and yet, the operating system that turned 15 earlier this year is still being used by way too many people across the world. And what’s worse is that Windows XP’s market share is even increasing these days.

 

A quick look at the statistics provided by NetMarketShare for the month of November 2016 shows that Windows XP is not declining, but actually improving, which is not only surprising, but also worrying given the fact that it’s no longer supported software.

 

At this point, Windows 7 is the market leader with 47.17 percent share, followed by Windows 10 with 23.72 percent. Windows XP, which was launched 15 years ago, is the third most-used desktop operating system worldwide with 8.63 percent, even ahead of Windows 8.1, which is now running on 8.01 percent of computers.

 

Windows XP started the year with 11.42 percent market share and then it dropped gradually to eventually reach 9.78 percent in July.

 

The OS then improved its share once again the next month to 10.34 percent, but started dropping one more time in August. November brought a new recovery, so judging from the performance posted in the previous months, Windows XP is likely to lose market share points starting December.

 

Who is still using Windows XP?

 

In case you’re wondering who is still using Windows XP these days even though updates and security patches are no longer provided since April 2014, the answer is quite simple: state departments and owners of old computer hardware who do not want to invest in purchasing new computers.

 

In most of the cases, governments and organizations that are still on Windows XP delay the transition because of the need for new hardware and compatibility issues, as critical applications developed for Windows XP need to be transitioned to newer operating systems as well.

 

It goes without saying that running Windows XP these days exposes users and their data to some risks, and seeing its market share growing these days is not by any means good news.

 

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[jamesbond]

Stats show stats data is not all that reliable

 

fixed it. do they seriously believe someone installed XP the last 30 days? maybe some freak in a VM...

[brain_death]

Maybe I'm not the average user, but I happily run Windows XP SP3 on Linux under VirtualBox, to enable me to use legacy Windows software that I need for my work, but which is very unlikely ever to be properly updated, let alone ported to another platform.

 

This enables me to spend much of my time in Linux while XP is light, fast and not used for any other purpose. It is Internet connected though and will get updates directly from M$ through until April 2019, as the result of a one-line registry hack that makes XP believe it is Windows Point of Sale Embedded.

 

Spoiler

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady]  "Installed"=dword:00000001

 

XP is much kinder on a machine with limited resources than Windows 7 for instance, or even Windows 8.1/10...

 

[pc71520]

In reality, XP users are much more than

the ones measured by NetMarketShare.

 

[Conley Powell]

In case you’re wondering who is still using Windows XP these days even though updates and security patches are no longer provided since April 2014, the answer is quite simple: state departments and owners of old computer hardware who do not want to invest in purchasing new computers.

 

In most of the cases, governments and organizations that are still on Windows XP delay the transition because of the need for new hardware and compatibility issues, as critical applications developed for Windows XP need to be transitioned to newer operating systems as well.

 

It goes without saying that running Windows XP these days exposes users and their data to some risks, and seeing its market share growing these days is not by any means good news.

 

     The usual Micro$oft-worshipping hogwash. A great many people, me included, are using XP and will continue to use it because we like it better than anything else available. As for "expos[ing] users and their data to some risks", this is truly hogwash. I've been using XP since shortly after it was released, and have never had any malware problems whatsoever. I neither need nor want "updates and security patches" or anything else from Micro$oft.

[banned]

Newer versions of Windows require just as many security patches per month as XP, if not more. What does that tell you about the security benefits of newer version of Windows? Not very impressive or inspiring. The critical security issues found in newer version of Windows that affect XP are also being back-ported by Microsoft, so the people that state otherwise are just being ignorant.

[Pequi]

On quinta-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2016 at 11:48 AM, jamesbond said:

do they seriously believe someone installed XP the last 30 days? maybe some freak in a VM...

 

I did, on 2 computers. Not on a VM (although I do have it on a VM, for "testing software's capabilities to resist reversing".

Did you really believe all the "end is nigh" M$ propaganda ?

2 1/2 years, and yes, XP users are still there, very few malware infected, and they did not become a massive botnet.

 

It's getting increasingly dificult to install on more modern hardware (some Intel chipsets actually block it), but when you finally manage. WOW. Boots in < 4 seconds. With a firewall running. I said BOOTS, not "comes out of hibernation".

It's a pity some developers are not compiling for it anymore. Some (like the Avidemux developer) saw the error in his ways when his downloads dropped and adapted to the real market.

[jamesbond]

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It's getting increasingly dificult to install on more modern hardware

sure, that's one of the reasons i never trust those stats. you'll have a hard time to make it working on a new system

keep in mind in a forum like this there are FREAKS, maybe something like 1% of the total computer users? and even here there are only a handful who still use this dinosaur.

i don't see any reason why i should use it, honestly. boots in 4 seconds? do i care? my win 7 system comes in 1 second from standby, this is what i use. why shut down a system? i don't do it sometimes for several months, 2 weeks ago i rebooted my notebook, after 9 months of running and standby use.

none of my xp systems was anywhere near as stable as my win 7 installations are now, i get system crashes maybe something like every 10'000 hours, something you can only dream of with xp.

but no, i am not saying xp is a bad operating system, it was good at that time, and even longer. but today? no. you can install DOS 6.0... boots in 5 milliseconds.  pitty no ones develops DOS software anymore though.

 

to increase the market share even only 0.4% there must be millions of freshly installed xp systems, this is a joke. they just cannot measure it with that precision.

[flash48]

My backup computer has XP.  I once tried to install Win 7 but the hardware did not like it.  I took about 20 minutes to boot and was too slow to use.  3 gigs of memory should be enough.  Most likely something else was causing the slowness.  I went back to XP and it boots faster than my main machine.

[luisam]

On 1/12/2016 at 9:48 AM, jamesbond said:

do they seriously believe someone installed XP the last 30 days?

I guess that the point is not to praise XP. For sure, it is used, will be used for some more years and those who use it, have their logical valid reasons. I use XP not because I like it more but for some hardware related reasons. But I feel that a user number indicating an "increase" in use of XP is simply a statistical error. I don't believe that there are significative numbers of NEW XP users.