Australians scrap Microsoft XP usage faster than US, UK users

[A Guy]

Australians are leading the way in moving away from using Microsoft's 12-year-old operating system, Windows XP, ahead of UK and US users, according to web analytics company StatCounter.

The company's research arm, StatCounter Global Stats, found in January 2014 that despite XP being the world's second most popular operating system in terms of internet usage, only 7.8 percent of Australians still use it compared to 12.4 percent of US and 9.5 percent of UK users.

"Australian computer users are to be complimented for moving faster than the rest of the world in waving goodbye to XP," said Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter CEO.

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A Guy

 

[Ranger4]

That's interesting, as a lot of my friends are still running XP, despite my advising them to move to Win 7.

 

[lehnerus2000]

I have XP installed so that I can use Windows Live Photo Gallery (to tag images/scans) without it "running amok" (like it does in W7).

That reminds me.
I have a few hundred scans that I should tag.

 

[Golden]

Whats XP?

 

[jimbo45]

Australians are leading the way in moving away from using Microsoft's 12-year-old operating system, Windows XP, ahead of UK and US users, according to web analytics company StatCounter.

The company's research arm, StatCounter Global Stats, found in January 2014 that despite XP being the world's second most popular operating system in terms of internet usage, only 7.8 percent of Australians still use it compared to 12.4 percent of US and 9.5 percent of UK users.

"Australian computer users are to be complimented for moving faster than the rest of the world in waving goodbye to XP," said Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter CEO.

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A Guy

Hi there
rather misleading stats of course

If you have 3 users and one switches then that's 33%, if you have 1,000,000 users then you could have a load more than 3 switching and the % will be far less.

The number of users in AUS is far smaller than in UK or US so these stats are relatively meaningless.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[strollin]

Because of the large differences in the number of users between AUS and UK or US, the ONLY valid way to compare them is by percentage so the stats are not relatively meaningless except in a case such as you stated (3 users) since that's too small a sample to draw any valid conclusion. As long as there is a sufficiently large sample then the stat will be relevant.

 

[ThrashZone]

I have XP installed so that I can use Windows Live Photo Gallery (to tag images/scans) without it "running amok" (like it does in W7).

That reminds me.
I have a few hundred scans that I should tag.

I use the vista version 2011 of wlpg it's pretty docile ?
No issues I'm aware of in performance with win-7 ?
Cheers.

 

[mjf]

Populations
China ~ 1.35 billion
US ~ 313 million
UK ~ 63 million
Australia ~ 23 million.

The size of the population has nothing to do with the conclusions. It has to do with the size of the sample set used in the statistical calculations and how it was chosen. A sample set in the thousands is sufficient to give valid confidence levels.
For some reason unknown to me Australia tends to lean towards early adopters in hi tech.

 

[A Guy]

Yeah, I don't see how the number of Australians affects what percentage of them have left XP? A Guy

 

[bawldiggle]

How many ozzy users have exited WinXp by default or by choice ?

ClassicShell downloads now exceeds 10,000,000 -- somebody is missing XP UI !

 

[margrave]

As long as we're foisting irrelevant facts: I cut my grass today.

 

[mjf]

Can you cut my grass too

 

[jadinolf]

I gave up on XP last week having built my fourth and last Windows 7 computer.

Sure wish I could make a few bucks on my unneeded retail XP disks.

 

[lehnerus2000]

Library Integration

I have XP installed so that I can use Windows Live Photo Gallery (to tag images/scans) without it "running amok" (like it does in W7).

That reminds me.
I have a few hundred scans that I should tag.

I use the vista version 2011 of wlpg it's pretty docile ?
No issues I'm aware of in performance with win-7 ?
Cheers.

The problem is caused by the Library integration.

Unlike WMC, there doesn't seem to be a way to control which folders WLPG tries to index.
I have > 1 TB of pictures and videos on my PC.
It's horrifying to watch WLPG trying to index that lot (especially since I only need it for a couple of thousand specific images/scans, in one folder).

Since XP doesn't have Libraries, it lets you choose which folders you want to index.

I gave up on XP last week having built my fourth and last Windows 7 computer.

Sure wish I could make a few bucks on my unneeded retail XP disks.

Since W8/8.1 are so despised, you probably could sell your XP discs.

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
I really can't see what all the fuss is about

If you want to run XP until the NEXT millennium (Y3k !!) no problem - just run it in a VM - vmplayer or Vbox are FREE.

These solutions now have decent 3-D and graphics support so 99% of typical legacy apps will run with no problems whatsoever.

I have some perfectly good hardware (some expensive stuff too) that will still only run on XP =its fine in a VM.

Just keep the VM isolated from the Internet and it's fine - no need to worry about lack of security fixes either if you keep the VM isolated from your network / internet.

W7 will actually run better on a lot of older gear than XP anyway and the overhead of the VM isn't that huge for legacy applications (usually).

It's a no-brainer.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Indianatone]

Can you cut my grass too

I haven't seem my grass since the last week in Decmeber. I think it is still there under all that record breaking snow we have. I still have 4 or 5 XP virtual machines (Home, Pro and 64 bit) and a 14 year old Gateway that attempts to run XP. The rest of our machines are on 7. Got the in laws new machine built running 7 last Autumn so no more real XP in the family.