Last December, the share of users of Windows XP had time to decline while the number of users of Windows 8 and up. But the trend apparently did not last long. Instead of going down, according to the research firm Net Applications reports that offered by ZDNet, the share of Windows XP users even experienced a rise of 0.25 percent in January 2014.
The old operating system was 13 years of age is still worn by 29.2 percent or almost one-third of a desktop computer and a laptop around the world until January 2014. If this trend continues, by the end of 2014, one of the five computers will still be running Windows XP. In fact, Microsoft will be ending support for XP sengera on April 8, 2014 so that the operating system will be vulnerable to cyber attacks.
Chances of success for cyber attacks launched against Windows XP-based PCS would increase by 66 percent after the month of April, according to estimates from Microsoft itself.
Do not want to move
On the other hand, Windows 8 and 8.1 never managed to attract the majority of PC users. The number of users of Windows 7, which reach 25 percent of all PCS currently still two times more than the combined number of Windows 8 and 8.1 (10.6 per cent). One of the reasons users--especially among corporates--does not want to move to Windows 8 allegedly related to the cost and time needed to learn the operating system with the new all-round display.
If the Windows XP PC users migrated, it is likely that the Windows 7 OS is selected, the last operating system that brings the traditional Windows desktop interface.
Plus more, this time Windows are no longer the only operating system that can be selected by the user. Tablets and laptops with the operating system alternatives such as Android, iOS, and many bought the Chrome OS as a complement or replacement for the PC, so that pressing the number users of Windows 8. Not to mention the MacBook from Apple are starting to attract interest of corporate users.
Microsoft seems to be starting to realize that the appearance of "live tiles" ala Windows 8 unfavorably. This was later to be called the software giant would make the following generation operating system booting directly into the desktop, back to long