Thread: Windows users still prefer to XP

Despite having two successors and a 9-year data, Windows XP continues to concentrate the preferences of 60% of Windows users. In today's technological age, nine years is a very long period. Even then an operating system old with three major updates the 60.03% of users are reluctant to upgrade Windows XP.

The same source added that the popular Windows 7 continues to grow, albeit at a slightly slower pace than before. According to the latest statistics Windows has a market share of 17.10% of the market, representing an increase of 1.25 points.

Microsoft loses ground its two major referral programs, Internet Explorer and Windows loses points, according to recent measurements of the market research firm Net Applications. While the browser market share now stands below 70 percent a figure not seen for nine years, the operating system Windows now has a market share of 90 percent from Windows 3.11 does not recalls a similar figure.

Any product that has a market share of 90 percent in the global PC market would be considered a tremendous success, but in the case of Microsoft this is different. Windows has suffered a continuous decline since 2003/2004 and November 2008 will remembered as the first month in a long period of time when Microsoft's market share has fallen below 90 percent just a 89.62 per cent.

According to figures from Net Applications, Windows in November 2005 had a market share of 95.8 percent in November 2006 dropped to 94.2 percent in the same month in 2007 the figure dropped to 92 , 4 per cent.