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.
I was in an elevator in a hotel in Vegas and saw (about) the same thing, except it was a Windows 7 box that would load to the desktop and then crash and restart.
I loved my XP. computer. It burned out and I had to buy Vista,,,Thank heavens that one would not turn on one day and I promptly bought a windows 7...still going well..Liked it a lot. Keeping it to travel with.
A week ago I got a new larger laptop with 10 and after a few days of making it like my own, grudgingly like it better...
I am now going to upgrade my 7 to 10.
Patience paid off. Old dog can learn new tricks.
So if Microshaft officially believes in a thing it's not crippled, but they can cripple it by withholding the royal blessing??? Bullcrap. "Crippled" is what works poorly or to advance the interests of someone other than the customer, you know, like WX.
At the risk of being branded a heretic, I actually like Win 10.
So do I.
;o)
The XP registry can be modified to receive update until 2019:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp/
A warning:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hacked-windows-xp-still-updates-still-a-bad-idea/
They dont sell XP anymore? I was going to upgrade from windows 95 as soon as I found a set of XP floppy disks.
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The upgrade should be to Windows 2000 Pro SP4 ,, I have a Hong Kong sourced disk of that I can send you... I think every copy of 2KPro and XP in China uses the same key as Microsoft never enforced any anti-piracy rules for s/n’s known to have been distributed in China ... they wanted market share and only us dumb Americans were forced to pay for our copies.
I once heard a Muzak version of “Marrakech Express” while dining at an Ohio Turnpike eatery.
Weird stuff on that stretch o’ road.
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Apparently not true. My XP machine has never been connected to the internets.
Yet the kind folks at Computer Support occasionally ring me to inform me that they are getting suspicious messages from my Windows Computer, and can they assist me to correct the problem
Windows "Cairo" was the project at Microsoft in the early 90's to change the nature of information storage and retrieval (among other things) and while it never shipped as an OS, it spawned content indexing, the Win95 GUI, and much else, including the much-anticipated but never realized "OFS" (Object File System).
I heard stories years about how "XP" got its name from "Cairo" as "Chi-Rho" because it was the shipping system that was (finally!!) going to have all the Cairo features, but of course it didn't...
And then Vista was going to (finally!!) have all the Cairo features, but of course it didn't...
Nice to see "Chi-Rho" rise yet again... :-)
“I think you are making the assumption that anyone is looking for new bugs and security flaws in XP...”
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A completely unsupported and non-updatable system still in use by over 10% of the population?
You bet people are still finding (and exploiting) security flaws in XP.
“Irrelevant, do not connect with squat, so where is the security risk?”
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Your use case is the exception. The vast majority of Xp machines are connected to the internet.
I get those calls about once a week. Sounds like the same Indian guy every time. Sometimes I play with him and sometimes I tell him to FO.
I know, can’t say anything good about it or else you’ll get slammed. The default luddites all bawl. I like Win10 just fine, much better than 8 and a bit better than 7.
It does include a lot of ATM’s.
I work in an industry that uses a lot of computerized equipment that is too expensive to change out just because there is a new OS.
Most of this equipment uses proprietary software created by/for the equipment’s manufacturer and are incapable of receiving just as OS update. The whole machine must be replaced. Depending on the machine that’s anywhere from $50,000 - $1,000,000 +.
We still have some machines that use Win95. XP is on the majority of the systems.
:) Hey... it’s like trying bourbon—you know if you like it or not, pretty quickly!
If I don’t like bad pseudo-touch-screen in the first 20 minutes, do you really think I’ll learn to love it in the hours and days that follow?
So what? You are the one that decided to preach to me about the error of my ways, unbidden.
“So what? You are the one that decided to preach to me about the error of my ways, unbidden.”
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Lighten up, Francis. Don’t flatter yourself by thinking I was responding only to you.
Most on FR stand to benefit from informed opinion of a security professional in the know (me) and should not be led to believe they are not at risk by someone in an atypical situation (you).
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Are you a Chi Rho practor? :o)
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