14 DAY TRIAL // Moving users from Windows XP to a newer platform remains quite a big challenge for Microsoft, but it turns out that consumers have finally got the message and are now dumping the 11-year-old OS.
Figures provided by market researcher StatCounter are now indicating that Windows XP’s market share is dropping at a very fast pace, with Microsoft’s aging OS now powering only 20.63 percent of computers worldwide.
Unsurprisingly, Windows 7 remains the leading OS with a market share of 51.94 percent, while Windows 8 advances rather slowly, as it’s now installed on 7.41 percent of the world’s computers.
Microsoft has recently changed its plans for Windows XP a little bit, saying that it wants to cut its market share to 13 percent by the time the retirement date comes. Initially, the tech giant planned to keep only 10 percent of its users on Windows XP, but Redmond has probably understood that doing this on such a short notice is quite impossible.