China Has a Massive Windows XP Problem

An anonymous reader writes "The Chinese are going to have a very, very hard time kicking the Windows XP habit. The deadline for the retirement of Microsoft's most successful operating system ever is eight months from tomorrow: April 8, 2014. That's the day when the Redmond, Wash. company is to deliver the last XP security update. According to analytics company Net Applications, 37.2% of the globe's personal computers ran Windows XP last month. If Microsoft's estimate of 1.4 billion Windows PCs worldwide is accurate, XP's share translates into nearly 570 million machines. In the U.S., 16.4% of all personal computers ran Windows XP in July, or about one in six, Net Applications' data showed. But in China, 72.1% of the country's computers relied on the soon-to-retire operating system last month, or nearly three out of every four systems."

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Re:Interesting

[Osgeld]

its cause it wont do what they want it to without a massive headache, just like anyplace in the whole universe when talking about linux on the desktop

dorks like it, everyone else doesn't

surprised?

Re:Interesting

[LordWabbit2]

Obligatory bash quote
it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
that's the first one

And that above all else is why Linux will be a haven for IT people and not the general populace. Want to change resolutions to something not shipped with your current flavour of free, you have to edit config files and google your monitors fvcken scan rates. Want to install xyz, sure no problem, here's the source code, no binaries soz, want to compile it download python, here's the source compile that first, want to compile that, soz, you need library ab fucken z, soz wrong version because it's changed 20 times in the last 20 fucken minutes. Oh sorry you downloaded the wrong version, this was forked because the developers got their panty's in a twist you want the OTHER fork.
The Linux install managers are helping a great deal, but even with those at some point you have to drop to the console to do stuff. Most windows users do not even know what a command prompt is.
Until Linux fixes that it will always lag behind windows.
Linux : But we don't have any viruses!
Why write a virus for 5% of the population who could decompile the virus and find the CnC?