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I still have an XP machine. Lot's of businesses still run XP.
Looks like Microsoft is having trouble with one of their own releases.Microsoft isn't particularly pleased about the continuing success of Windows XP, which has more than twice the installed base of Windows Vista and 7 put together. So it's trying its hardest to kill the operating system that won't die, including refusing to issue security patches for XP SP2, putting many XP users at risk. Is that the right way to get people to upgrade?
A report out yesterday from Net Applications shows that Windows XP has more than twice the market share of Windows 7 and Windows Vista combined -- 61.87% for XP in July, compared to 14.46% for Windows 7, and 14.34% for Windows Vista.
Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP - PCWorld
The keyword here is Service Pack 2. Service Pack 3 was released for Windows XP a while ago (April 2008). Anyone who is still running on Service Pack 2 should upgrade to Service Pack 3 already. This only effects Windows XP machines that do not have Service Pack 3. And this has been known for YEARS!
Its not something I am surprised about but I believe that time will come that Windows XP will fade out.
Indeed, it will, eventually. I still get PC's from friends running Win 98. I "upgrade" them to Win XP so their grade school kids can play games.
Usually, only a RAM upgrade is necessary (plus the cost of the XP OS, minimal, as well) and my friends get a practically free system for their tykes. :)
Things get phased out all the time. Microsoft announced quite a while that it would be discontinuing support for XP users without SP3.
The article is new according to the date, but I did just notice that it is a bit outdated for it's date.
A lot of the installed base for XP is in the corporate sector, which is starting to look at their upgrade cycles again after a long time where they held of for cost and other reasons - all support for XP ends in 2014 so the situation should change dramatically in the next year or so.
another major reason for the hanging on of XP is the bespoke software vendors who refuse (or are unable to), upgrade their corporate software to work with later operating systems this is more of a concern as they can virtually hold corporations to ransom until an alternative solution is available.
This is also a reason for the numbers of users forced to use unsafe browsers such as IE6, which have little protection against today's internet nasties