Windows XP market share falls below 50%

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Windows XP market share falls below 50%

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Techspot wrote:At the end of July 2011, Microsoft can say that Windows XP finally fell below the 50 percent mark. In other words, Redmond's decade-old operating system is now used by less than half of all Internet users.

Windows XP's market share is eroding, and Windows in general is slowly slipping as well: between June and July, it fell 0.63 percentage points (from 88.29 percent to 88.76 percent). At the same time, Mac OS gained 0.22 percentage points (from 5.37 percent to 5.59 percent) and Linux gained 0.03 percentage points (from 0.95 percent to 0.98 percent). Unsurprisingly, mobile operating systems gained share.
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I use a Eunuchs system....

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^^ Caught up with the helpful/troll post ratio already? :P

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well, the computer labs on campus all use Windows XP and as soon as Novell works with Win 7 or Vista, XP ain't going anywhere...
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As a work system xp still runs fine but gaming you need either vista or win7.
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jamin_za wrote:I use a Eunuchs system....
So it's all just talk then, huh?
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KatrynKat wrote:well, the computer labs on campus all use Windows XP and as soon as Novell works with Win 7 or Vista, XP ain't going anywhere...
IT dept. uses Windows 7.
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wasn't talking about the IT dept. now was I...
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KatrynKat wrote:wasn't talking about the IT dept. now was I...
KatrynKat wrote:well, the computer labs on campus all use Windows XP
IT dept. has computer labs and they are most definitely located on campus.
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yeah but i was talking about the labs that are accessible to non-IT students... and where 90% of the students use IE instead of FF which is on the PCs...
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KatrynKat wrote:well, the computer labs on campus all use Windows XP
KatrynKat wrote:yeah but i was talking about the labs that are accessible to non-IT students
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so... by Windows share falling less than a percent they conclude that Windows is slipping?

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Yea XP's time is coming to an end, lots of companies are now using windows 7. And if you go to any big LAN about 80% of the people there are using windows 7. But still XP is not going to disappear any time soon, lots of shops still use it as well as most schools and universities

edit// And what happened to virus ...I mean Vista, it has completely disappeared now :twisted: . Only a handful of mad people still continue to torture themselves with it :lol:
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THE_STIG wrote:Only a handful of mad people still continue to torture themselves with it :lol:
Anyone who buys it is a fool. Not because it's way too expensive and should actually be free (:P), but because Vista Ultimate is still WAY more expensive than Win7 Ultimate.
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I know, anybody who buys this should be immediately taken to a mental home and then have a tattoo saying "I am the worlds biggest ID10T" put on their forehead :lol:

Mind you anybody who ever actually had vista on their PC should have this done to them :lol:
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THE_STIG wrote:Mind you anybody who ever actually had vista on their PC should have this done to them :lol:
As much as you hate Vista, it did have one killer feature for a lot of people (myself included) - reliable 64-bit support.
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Yea, I will admit that it did actually have decent 64-bit support :| . Much better than that of XP 64-bit :x . But I still hated everything else about it :lol:
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