Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1%

Posted by timothy on from the meaningless-stats-to-ponder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Just three months ago, we reported how Windows 7 had finally overtaken Windows XP in terms of market share. Now it's time to see how long it takes Windows 8 to succeed its predecessors. Between October to November, Windows XP fell to 39.82 percent while Windows 8 jumped to 1.09 percent."

2 of 310 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I Wonder? by epyT-R · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    yah the same way freedom 'is still there' in current US domestic policy!

  2. Re:Our way or the FLOSS way by bogaboga · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    To hurry adoption along even more I expect them to be more aggressive with Windows 7's EOL schedule than they were with XP, which was generous to start and then extended.

    Here's what they'll do:

    Announce a critical "newly discovered" bug in Windows XP whose only remedy is one of the following: -

    (1) Upgrade to the newest and greatest OS,
    (2) Take the system offline, or
    (3) Run an update, which degrades previously running applications.

    They will add that option 1 is the safest. When this happens, all those 10% remaining holdouts will `toe the line`, so to speak.