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November 1, 2014 8:58 AM

Emil Protalinski Everyone is well-aware by now that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have not seen the impressive adoption rate of their predecessor. Yet the duo had a particularly good run last month, finally passing 15 percent market share together, according to the latest figures from Net Applications

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Good lord, XP is still around 20%?  That scares me 🙂
It IS scary that XP has really anything over 1% share left LOL.  Also, obviously a lot of business users have ugraded to WIndows 7, but not 8.  

 

 
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It IS scary that XP has really anything over 1% share left LOL.  Also, obviously a lot of business users have ugraded to WIndows 7, but not 8.  

 

 

Hello Webrooters,

 

I can understand why people can't let go of XP. The cost and the mindset has alot to do with it I think, which is a no brainer.But W8 hasn't gotten the best reviews yet either. People don't like change I'm quessing!

 

 

 
@ wrote:

@ wrote:

It IS scary that XP has really anything over 1% share left LOL.  Also, obviously a lot of business users have ugraded to WIndows 7, but not 8.  

 

 

Hello Webrooters,

 

I can understand why people can't let go of XP. The cost and the mindset has alot to do with it I think, which is a no brainer.But W8 hasn't gotten the best reviews yet either. People don't like change I'm quessing!

 

 

 

As far as the business community goes, a lot of the special software they run may either be unstable, not work at all, or be of questionable security under Windows 8.  It took them a LONG time to finally get everything "IT Approved" for Windows 7.  For as long as Windows 8 has any question of security or compatibility when compared to WIndows 7, large businesses will be slow to transition to 8 I think.
Nevermind XP, what about the "Windows Old" category that still has a percentage of users!

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