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Windows XP Saw a mere 1.18 % decrease instead of 6.69 %.
NETAPPLICATIONS HAS ADMITTED that the 6.69 percent drop in Windows XP's market share it recorded for October was overstated, suggesting that Windows 8 isn't doing as well as first thought.
The bean counters at NetApplications revealed earlier this week that Windows XP's global market share took a 6.69 percent plunge during October, which should have raised alarm bells given that this is almost as much as XP's share dropped over the whole of the previous 12 months.
This, according to the figures, meant that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 enjoyed a combined 4.54 percent surge during the month.
However, NetApplications admitted on Thursday that things didn't swing in Microsoft's favour quite as much as it first thought, owing to the omission of many sites in China that the firm usually monitors to determine these figures.
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I bet the number of XP users are still very high since a lot of people still use XP for offline tasks like Word Processing, playing XP compatible games like Counter Strike, and to scan and print documents with a scanner and printer.
I think a lot of people thesedays are hiding their operating system version from websites and tracking tools like NetApplications and Google Analytics to protect their privacy, so these marketshare numbers can be wrong. More people are also using Apps, and programs like chat programs, e-mail programs, news readers, etc, so not everyone go on websites often where there are websites with tracking tools which can track people operating systems version.
People who are more concerned about their privacy would probably not go on popular websites with tracking codes, and apps.
NETAPPLICATIONS HAS ADMITTED that the 6.69 percent drop in Windows XP's market share it recorded for October was overstated, suggesting that Windows 8 isn't doing as well as first thought.
The bean counters at NetApplications revealed earlier this week that Windows XP's global market share took a 6.69 percent plunge during October, which should have raised alarm bells given that this is almost as much as XP's share dropped over the whole of the previous 12 months.
This, according to the figures, meant that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 enjoyed a combined 4.54 percent surge during the month.
However, NetApplications admitted on Thursday that things didn't swing in Microsoft's favour quite as much as it first thought, owing to the omission of many sites in China that the firm usually monitors to determine these figures.
Read More
I bet the number of XP users are still very high since a lot of people still use XP for offline tasks like Word Processing, playing XP compatible games like Counter Strike, and to scan and print documents with a scanner and printer.
I think a lot of people thesedays are hiding their operating system version from websites and tracking tools like NetApplications and Google Analytics to protect their privacy, so these marketshare numbers can be wrong. More people are also using Apps, and programs like chat programs, e-mail programs, news readers, etc, so not everyone go on websites often where there are websites with tracking tools which can track people operating systems version.
People who are more concerned about their privacy would probably not go on popular websites with tracking codes, and apps.
