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Look How Many People Are Going To Be Annoyed When Microsoft Cuts Off Windows XP

Jim EdwardsFeb 28, 2014, 03:36 IST

Microsoft plans to discontinue support for Windows XP in April after 12 years on the market.

The problem: XP remains Microsoft's second most-used Windows operating system, according to NetMarketShare. XP is still miles ahead of Windows 8 - a lot of users resisted upgrading to Vista and more modern versions of the system because XP kinda got it right - it did everything that most desktop users need an operating system to do, and it was not complicated to use.

Windows 7 is the most popular system, as this chart of market share in the Windows environment from Statista shows.

Statista / Netmarketshare

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