The market shares of Windows 8 and 8.1, when combined, are now larger than that of Windows XP. This is the first time those operating systems have surpassed the 13-year-old OS which still runs on 14.6% of computers. Together, Windows 8 and 8.1 have 15.45%, according to Net Applications.
And, for once, some of what it can do looks genuinely useful.
The blog post reads, “We’re introducing a new WhatsApp app for Windows that loads faster and is built with an interface similar to the app's mobile version.”
Since the middle of February, customers of AMD graphics cards have been reporting situations in which Windows installations were entirely bricked after installing new drivers.
well most xp users probably movied over to windows 7 and havent updated from there.
so saying that 8/8.1 now has greater marketshare than xp really isnt saying a lot.
Windows 7 holds the largest share. Most Windows XP users migrated from XP to 7, skipping Vista in the proccess. I believe this will be the case now as well. Most people will jump over from 7 to 10, and skip Windows 8.
Windows 7 is the next XP, and will likely by now have become a standard OS in schools now.