{"id":9310,"date":"2015-04-02T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2015-04-02T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T11:48:19","slug":"windows-xp-still-has-more-users-than-windows-8-and-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-xp-still-has-more-users-than-windows-8-and-8-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows XP still has more users than Windows 8 and 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<h1 class=\"article-title\">A year after its demise, Windows XP still has more users than Windows 8 and 8.1 combined<\/h1>\n<p class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"author vcard\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/ruvwBx\" target=\"_blank\">NeoWin<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NetMarketShare<\/a> |\u00a0<\/span>Written by By Timi Cantisano<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p class=\"img-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/images\/uploaded\/2014\/08\/screen_shot_2014-08-25_at_10.56.41_am.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/images\/uploaded\/2014\/08\/screen_shot_2014-08-25_at_10.56.41_am_story.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the upcoming anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/end-of-life-microsoft-finally-terminates-support-for-windows-xp\">Windows XP reaching the end of its <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/end-of-life-microsoft-finally-terminates-support-for-windows-xp\">life<\/a>, the OS still has more users than Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 combined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/\">According to NetMarketShare<\/a>, Windows XP still holds a market share of 16.94% as of March 2015. In the same report it shows that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 hold a combined market share of 14.07%. While Windows XP narrowly holds on to its pole position, its gradual decline suggests that users are finally ready to let go of the antiquated operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The results above are a far cry from the numbers that we saw in a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/windows-8-gains-market-share-as-xp-drops-slightly\">report in September 2014<\/a>. Data for August indicated that XP still had a fairly large following at 23.89%.<\/p>\n<p>We can reasonably expect that Windows 8.1, Windows 8, and Windows XP will see a heavy decline in market share when the much-anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/microsoft-confirms-its-next-os-will-be-called-windows-10\">Windows 10<\/a> makes its debut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/microsoft-announces-windows-10-release-set-for-this-summer-in-190-countries\">during the summer<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/windows-10-to-be-free-upgrade-for-windows-phone-81-windows-7-and-81-users-in-first-year\">Windows 10 will be a free upgrade<\/a> for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users for the first year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/ruvwBx\" target=\"_blank\">Neowin<\/a> &amp; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netmarketshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NetMarketShare<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year after its demise, Windows XP still has more users than Windows 8 and 8.1 combined From NeoWin \/ NetMarketShare |\u00a0Written by By Timi Cantisano With the upcoming anniversary of Windows XP reaching the end of its life, the OS still has more users than Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 combined. According to NetMarketShare, Windows XP still\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-xp-still-has-more-users-than-windows-8-and-8-1\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9311,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}