Data: Net ApplicationsPosted on 04/12/2016 11:57:47 AM PDT by upchuck
Even though Microsoft retired Windows XP two years ago, an estimated 181 million PCs around the world ran the crippled operating system last month, according to data from a web metrics vendor.
Windows XP exited public support on April 8, 2014, amid some panic on the part of corporations that had not yet purged their environments of the 2001 OS. Unless companies paid for custom support, their PCs running XP received no security updates after that date.
Consumers were completely cut off from patches, with no alternatives other than to switch to a newer operating system or continue running an insecure machine.
But two years after XP's support demise, nearly 11% of all personal computers continue to run the OS, data for March from U.S.-based analytics vendor Net Applications showed. Meanwhile, Windows XP accounted for about 12% of all Windows-powered PCs. (The user share difference between all PCs and those only running Windows was due to the fact that Windows was the OS on 91.5% of all personal computers, not 100%.)
The 12% represented approximately 181 million PCs when compared against the 1.5 billion Windows personal computers worldwide, a number that Microsoft has regularly cited.
That number put XP as No. 4 among Microsoft's editions, behind Windows 7, which powered an estimated 861 million systems, Windows 10 (235 million), and Windows 8/8.1 (199 million).
Windows XP's user share also exceeded that of all versions of Apple's OS X by 40%.
While XP's usage share of the U.S. market was a minuscule 3.2% -- less than half the global average of 7.5% -- XP last month remained a strong contender in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There, XP accounted for 26.2% of all personal computer operating systems as measured by Irish analytics company StatCounter.
China has an even bigger XP problem according to Baidu, the PRC's largest search provider. Data from Baidu pegged XP's share of the country's OS market at 31.6% for March, a significant decline from 44.1% a year ago but still almost a third of all PC OSes.
Microsoft has launched several initiatives in the PRC to get customers there to upgrade to a newer version of Windows. Last fall, for example, Microsoft partnered with Baidu to promote Windows 10 adoption. In return, Baidu was made the default search provider for the Chinese version of Windows 10.
At XP's current 12-month rate of decline as tracked by Net Applications, the operating system will drop into the single digits in May, but will remain above 5% until March 2017, nearly three years after its expiration.
Part of the difficulty in leaving XP is that there is no direct migration between it and Windows 10, Microsoft's latest edition. Instead, users must first upgrade to Windows 7, then next to 10. Or more likely, dump the system and purchase a new PC with Windows 10 pre-installed. Data: Net Applications
Two years after retirement, Windows XP's user share stubbornly resists falling into the single digits.
Actually, I'm looking for a white box PC on eBay that has Win98 or Win Millennium on it or a 3.5" floppy drive so I can boot to floppy to get setup for Millennium to run. I have an old game that I loved but won't run on XP. Actually, I have several. I'll find what I need somewhere.
I believe the enterprise edition of XP is supported by MS until 2019 and that support can even be extended. We still have several devices running XP that are fully supported.
You kids can go with the fancy new technology if you want. But I've finally got the hang of the MS-DOS command line interface. So I'm sticking with Windows 3.1.
•”Windows Embedded Standard 2009. This product is an updated release of the toolkit and componentized version of Windows XP. It was originally released in 2008; and Extended Support will end on Jan. 8, 2019.”
•”Windows Embedded POSReady 2009. This product for point-of-sale devices reflects the updates available in Windows Embedded Standard 2009. It was originally released in 2009, and extended support will end on April 9, 2019.”
Microsoft could easily continue supporting XP for small users since they are doing so for enterprise users.
I have to wonder about a side business for code writers that would write code for old equipment for new machines. I have a very expensive video card for 4 monitors with the last driver written for XP. I have tried to install it in comparability mode, but to no avail. I’ve even tried to back up to Vista after hearing that someone got the driver to work with it. No dice. It just irks me to have a perfectly good video card that I paid big bucks for sitting on a shelf and no where to put it. I even went back to XP in desperation, but found all the usual problems of not having a browser new enough to surf and Chrome even refusing to even open and certainly no Java. If there were a code monkey out there that had the skills to write a driver for win 7 for this card I might even be willing to pay, but he would most likely want a fortune for writing a one off. But there are so many more, like the stack of scanners that have a win 2000 driver or even win98. Nothing wrong with them, still work, but I had to move on and stack them in the junk room. I even recently tried Linux Mint to see if it would load up the video card, but alas, no joy.Of course if it did, I wouldn’t even know how to upgrade a browser with a tar ball. If Linux would just write their code with .exe and .com files, they could take over the world.
Things run fine and have for years without any MS updates. I follow that same regimen with Win 7 and it works.
A lot of machines are not used to browse the internet and many are straight VPN tunnel machines for a single application.
I still have a computer running XP. It’s my favorite OS. After six years of Win7 I still prefer XP.
Win 10 is Big Brother and Bit Bother squared.
I have one XP machine, one Windows 10, and one Linux
Laptop is 8.1
Xp WAS a great operating system for it’s time. I loved it. However, Win7 was even better. That’s where I stopped because Win fell back into their mediocre practices with win* and above. A year ago I put Linux Mint 16 on my computer, and have upgraded to 17.3 which is the latest edition. I LOVE it. It’s a very polished OS and will work on an XP machine. It’s free, secure, has a ton of free programs to do anything you want done. If you’re a total diehard for windowsxp or win7 because you are madly in love with certain software, you can still use it! Mint runs windows too as a Vm machine. The only flaw I found was in saving files to be accessible both in and out of the windows vm,m but it IS doable. I just didn’t know how to do it. It’s something you have to do when you set up the VMM.
OR you can set your machine for a dual boot so that you can choose which system you want to boot into when you turn the machine on.
There is nothing I can do in windows that I can’t do in the linux flavor I use. Mint isn’t the only choice, there are many choices and some work better than others on any given machine so you can decide which one is best for your particular machine.
For those afraid of linux, the android operating system on your android phone is linux. It’s THAT flexible. Google customizes it for their phones. Linux is customizable.
mjIt took me a while to make the transition because I really didn’t want to so I had to overcome my own headspace. It became much easier to do that when win8 and above came out, and when they started trying to force windows 10 upgrades on win7 macnines, as well as when win7 upgrades were so poorly designed that they began to crash the OS.
Additionally, I didn’t like having to let windows claim space on MY harddrive and computer by forcing me to do what they refused to do...secure their os. I was constantly having to maintain, upgrade, install protection software, antivirus updates and programs, malware programs, rootkit programs..you name it, I got sick of it. And every time I turned around there was yet another security failure or security update to turn you into a criminal thief.
I have more important things to do with my time and energy than futz around with windows bs.
I had one piece of windows software that I used a lot, and had files that I needed. So, I installed ‘doz, the software, uploaded the files to an online drive and emailed them to myself. I downloaded the files, converted them to a format that a linux program could utilize, and got rid of windows.
I learned a new software which is every bit as good if not better to accomplish my task. It’s worth making a few changes to break away from what I’ve come to see as a rather expensive addiction.
Why should I have to buy a new computer to accomodate a new windoze and go through the hell of upkeep and repair of that OS only do discover it’s really nothing more than a trojan? No thanks!
I remember loading OS from 8” floppies.
The load would sometimes die. Always on the last or next to last floppy. :)
XP runs just fine on my home desktop. This system is used mainly for streaming movies, TV shows and music.
No problems whatsoever.
Win 10... NEVER!!
LOL download the win 10 enterprise 90 day trial and try ,you’re missing out big time
Does anybody know if this includes ATM machines? I read that they still run largely on XP. But that’s not an issue since they’re connected only on the banks’ internal networks. I wouldn’t be surprised if this high XP count is due to many other internally networked PC’s in businesses.
Thanks to upchuck for the ping!!
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There are at least 100 million stations that will never leave Windows Chi Rho (XP) behind.
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wonder how man actually belong to bot herders.
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