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Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Late to the game by bondsbw · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows 10 surpassed XP back in October.

    It has now passed every OS other than Windows 7.

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    All my liberal friends think I'm a conservative, all my conservative friends think I'm a liberal.
  2. Netapplications a dubious source for this by bazmail · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Many websites are blocking Windows XP as it doesn't support stronger than SHA-1 certs so the numbers will be skewed. Win XP clients will be invisible to Net applications metrics.

  3. Re:Of course ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is health insurance different from auto insurance?

    Driving is optional. Breathing isn't.

  4. By design by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem here in the US is that we have neither free market health care nor socialized health care, but rather the bastard offspring of the two combined. The result is not the best of both worlds, but the worst of both worlds: the socalized part serves only to corral the sheep into the shearing barn, where the "free market" part is free to gouge them into financial ruin. The end result is that in the US, medical expenses are the #1 cause of bankruptcy -- and that's by design, my friends. All by design.