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Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 2, 2016 @05:14AM from the playing-with-numbers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Six months after its release, Windows 10 has finally passed 10 percent market share. Not only that, but the latest and greatest version from Microsoft has also overtaken Windows 8.1 and Windows XP, according to the latest figures from Net Applications. Windows 10 had 9.96 percent market share in December, and gained 1.89 percentage points to hit 11.85 percent in January. Maybe it will jump even faster soon, but not necessarily for the best of reasons.

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Late to the game by bondsbw · 2016-02-02 05:22 · Score: 5, Informative

Windows 10 surpassed XP back in October.
It has now passed every OS other than Windows 7.

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Re:Netapplications a dubious source for this by Bert64 · 2016-02-02 05:31 · Score: 2, Informative

Only if you're using IE, you can still access such sites using Firefox which has its own SSL libraries.

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Re:Of course ... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-02 05:46 · Score: 2, Informative

You're still required to hand over money to a private company whether you want to or not.
Auto insurance isn't mandated at a Federal level. Many states do not require auto insurance, even for people owning and operating vehicles. Surety bonds are the usual alternative.
Choosing to forego all that is hardly comparable to the fact that you now need to put a bullet in your head to avoid being fined if you don't want health insurance.