Windows XP still the most used Windows 8
Almost a year after the termination of official support from Microsoft, still outnumber users of Windows XP than Windows 8. Despite Microsoft’s efforts to promote the use of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, the latest release of the operating system from Redmond have definitely struggled to penetrate the market. According to the latest statistics of NetMarketShare, Windows 8 has grown lukewarm in the last year, and is still dominated by Windows 7 from Windows XP and above, whose official support ended in April last year.
It was just that the element on which Microsoft wanted to push the attention of users: eliminating official support of Windows XP, the safety of the latter would be compromised because they would not be released updates corrective on the platform. The company promoted so the move to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, more secure and reliable for both the company and the consumer.
A maneuver that had no unfortunately the desired results. Windows 8 had been welcomed by customer’s lukewarm historical Redmond via an interface hybrid wife is ill, according to popular opinion, using mouse and keyboard. Microsoft made many upgrades to enhance the user experience on the desktop and traditional notebook, but Windows 8 is still carried behind a name heavy to digest.
Not surprisingly, many of the new Windows 10 are structured in such a way, with the main objective to make the interface more usable Modern both tablet and PC with mouse and keyboard. The first Windows 10 Technical Preview show encouraging results and give hope for the next version of the operating system because it can be accepted in a more warm by the public, which will also be proposed for free in the first year of commercialization.
But for now Windows 8 limps noticeably: NetMarketShare reports that versions 8.1 and 8 have a combined market share of 11.3%, in a market where Windows XP, almost 14 years old, holds nearly 17% of the pie. Very forward and now unreachable Windows 7, with 58% market share of all desktop operating systems. Compared to last year, Windows 8 has gained only 2.7 percentage points, and did even better than Windows 7, with an increase of 9.2%.
Declining instead Windows XP: if the March 2014 had 27.5% of the market, today its presence has deteriorated considerably, for a trend destined to continue the inexorable course. But let’s talk about an operating system 14 years ago: although it was updated for several years and with substantial improvements, 14 years represent a period of time in the huge computer industry, even for the Microsoft operating system harder to die.
