XP starts falling behind Win 7

4. January 2012 by admin.

I just read that Windows XP lost more than 11 percent of its market share from September to December 2011, dropping to an average of 46.5 percent in December.  It is estimated that Windows 7 will surpass XP installations sometime in April of 2012.  Is the reason for this because people honestly believe XP is old school? From my experience, I seriously doubt it. Most likely the driving force is Microsoft itself and their announcement that XP support will be ending soon.  ( April of 2014 qualifies as soon?) That should be enough to get corporate America looking at the next best OS, which without question is Windows 7, but assuming the Mayans are wrong and we are still here on the planet in 2014, I would wager there will still be a large group of XP users ( more than 10%)who would rather fight than switch.

Other driving forces (again Microsoft) is the dead end for XP users who prefer Internet Explorer. Since IE9 won’t run on XP its users are forced to use an alternate browser or upgrade to Win 7.

I do Like XP and always have, but in my personal opinion, Windows 7 is the best operating system Microsoft has developed to date.  From what I hear about Windows 8, it is trying to be all things to all people and that just won’t fly with serious users and corporate I.T. departments. Vista? Bah ! The modern incarnation of Windows ME!  A waste of electrons.

Stick with XP for as long as you want. Networking Delaware (http://www.networkingdelaware.com ) will support you for as long as possible.  When Microsoft stops releasing security updates it will behoove you and I to retire XP for good, but until that day… stand fast if you like XP… don’t be bullied!

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