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Windows 8 and 8.1 finally pass 15% market share, Windows XP drops below 20% mark

  • 2 November 2014
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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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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nic
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Good lord, XP is still around 20%?  That scares me 🙂
shorTcircuiT
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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.  
 
 
Ssherjj
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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.  
 
 
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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!
 
 
 
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shorTcircuiT
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@ 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.
cohbraz
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Nevermind XP, what about the "Windows Old" category that still has a percentage of users!

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