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

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

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 1, 2012 @09:05PM 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."

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Photoshop angry birds by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-01 21:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Finally!
I can Photoshop Angry Birds! You don't know how I've been missing the feature to be able to run Angry Birds AND full blown photoshop, and all for the bargain price of $999.99!
Plus I get to use Active Directory, letting me leverage my work network for printing out all those Word documents on the exciting ribbon interface.
Sometimes on a cold morning, I miss the warmth of a Pentium, I'd sacrifice some of my battery to make, say, some sort of leg warmer, maybe even with a fan to blow the warm air! If only somebody would make me one of those tablet thingies with a lap warmer, I'd be happy!
Re:I Wonder? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-01 21:28 · Score: 5, Funny

That way there's no cognitive effort when switching between your phone and your desktop.
I'm looking forward to the Microsoft car, which will have a bicycle seat and controls.
The Linux desktop beating Windows... by ndogg · 2012-12-01 21:41 · Score: 3, Funny

8?
Truly, 2013 will be the year of the Linux desktop!

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1. Re:The Linux desktop beating Windows... by lannocc · 2012-12-01 22:35 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Each application captures the scroll events and handles them on their own. There is no system-wide setting. Perhaps a hardware abstraction layer could be written.
  
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2. Re:The Linux desktop beating Windows... by kestasjk · 2012-12-01 23:47 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Pfft.. 2013 is the year when Windows RT/8 on Surface will force Linux to retreat out of tablets/smartphones and back onto Chinese "smart-fridge" interfaces and escalator firmware where it belongs.
  
  Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat Certified consultant with 20 years UNIX experience looking on in terror as Microsoft renders my life obsolete.
  
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Re:You've never tried Windows 8 then by bmo · 2012-12-01 23:04 · Score: 4, Funny

Well, that's the advantage of virtual machines.
Severe bondage and discipline for Windows OSes with no safeword.
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Re:Our way or the FLOSS way by kestasjk · 2012-12-01 23:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Speaking your commands is definitely the way of the future, but I think they also need to make the window manager 3D if they want to stay ahead of the game.

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Re:I Wonder? by RobertLTux · 2012-12-02 00:11 · Score: 4, Funny

but the problem is you get Metro going MEESA IMPORTANT LOOK AT MEES NOWZ!!! every five minutes or so

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