Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 2, 2014 @03:15PM from the year-of-something-on-the-somethingtop dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Despite support for Windows XP finally ending three months ago, the ancient OS has only now fallen below the 25 percent market share mark. To add to the bad news for Microsoft, after only nine full months of availability, its latest operating system version, Windows 8.1, has lost share for the first time. For desktop browser share, Chrome is up, taking mostly from Internet Explorer and Firefox. For mobile browsers, Safari continues to fall while Chrome maintains strong growth.

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False count by frovingslosh · 2014-08-02 15:58 · Score: 5, Funny

It looks like this count is coming from someone monitoring what OSs they see in use. That being the case, it must be greatly under-counting Windows 8 and Win 8.1, since while they may be on many more computers, they are unusable.

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Re: Who has the market share? by loufoque · 2014-08-02 19:36 · Score: 5, Funny

I feel good knowing I'm part of the 1%.