Windows XP Still in 60% of World’s Computers

Figures from NetApplications are frequently rolled out regarding the major operating systems’ share of the market. The figures presented today tells us that it goes down for Windows on the whole; it’s up for Windows 7 but down for Vista and XP. The figures indicate that many Vista users have switched to another OS. Vista was apparently down 0.65% in September and landed at 13.65%.
XP is also declining, although very slowly. Microsoft’s operating sysyem, released nine years ago, is still in 60.03% of the computers in the world, down from 60.85%. It is now quite old but retains a good foothold, a foothold that we will see become increasingly weak as no XP computers are being produced and even more so when Microsoft gets rid of all the support for it in 2014.
Win 7 picked up a further 1.25 percentage points but failed to keep up with the Windows XP and Vista loss. In all, Windows lost a total of 0.25 points of the market. Exactly where this percentage has gone is unknown at this point. Both OS X and Linux are still at 5.03% and 0.85%. The only OS that has demonstrably gone up is Apple’s IOS which now has 1.18% of the market.