
Posted on Windows 7 News & Tips Microsoft are desperate to squash Windows XP. The operating system is now more than 10 years old and has been replaced twice! Yet, despite all of this, and because Vista was late and (frankly) rubbish, millions of people are still using the “comfortable old shoe” and despite their now being less than 800 days left for extended malware and security patch support, they are mostly resolutely refusing to upgrade, insisting that Microsoft will have to back down instead and continue support until their computers eventually die, or perhaps even longer. Now figures released from NetMarketShare appear to show that Windows XP usage actually increased slightly in January of this year, up to 47.19% from 46.52%! XP’s usage has been steadily declining since the launch of Windows 7, with a very healthy 56.78% of computers using it in March 2011 compared to just 25.23% of computers running Windows 7. Now Windows sits at 36.4% but this still lags more than 10% behind Windows XP, which resolutely refuses to die
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