Andre Yoskowitz
29 Sep 2013 13:35
Microsoft may have finally turned a corner in its ongoing efforts to move users away from the aged Windows XP operating system.
While most market research firms show Windows XP as still controlling 33 percent (or higher) of the OS market, Microsoft's own figures have that number lower, at about 27 percent.
According to Paul Thurrott, this means there are still 405 million XP users around the globe, good for the second most of any operating system, behind Windows 7.
The operating system will be retired on April 8th, 2014, and Microsoft says it hopes only 13 percent of users will stick with the OS past the support date.