It’s time to let go of Windows Xp

By | April 11th, 2011



Just Recently, Windows 7 users have surpassed Window XP ones in US according to a report by a stat tracking group, Pingdom. However, Windows XP, which was a great success, still has more than 31% penetration in the United States.

The data for the report was aggregated using visitor information on more than 3 million websites giving enough samples to estimate these figures. Windows 7 after about 20 months of its release has managed to break Windows XP hype, a thing that poorly executed Vista was and will never be able to achieve. According the report, Windows Vista has only 19% penetration among US users and decreasing.

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The reason why Microsoft has reached this milestone is because firstly it has officially stopped supporting Windows XP. Secondly almost every new PC today comes with Windows 7 and people are throwing away their slow XP PCs out of desire or being malfunctioned. Microsoft will keep supporting Windows 7 by 2015 and yes, it’s the best OS we’ve seen after XP so people will keep using Windows 7 by 2010, my safe estimate. [via MaximumPC]

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