From InfoWorld: Windows XP users continued to put their old hoss OS out to pasture in April, statistics showed, but the now-unsupported operating system still powered more than one in every four personal computers on the planet.
According to Web analytics company Net Applications, Windows XP dropped 1.6 percentage points in "user share," an estimate of the fraction of the world's computer owners that run a specific operating system, to end April with 26.1 percent of all desktop and notebook systems. It was the second consecutive month that XP shed significant user share.
Windows XP accounted for about 28.8 percent of all Windows-powered PCs last month. The difference between the numbers for all personal computers and only those running Windows was due to Windows powering about 91 percent of all personal computers, not 100 percent.
Microsoft delivered the final pubic security update for Windows XP on April 8. Since then, users have faced the likelihood that cyber criminals will dig up new vulnerabilities -- perhaps by examining fixes for still-supported editions -- and unleash exploits on PCs still running the retired OS.
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