Windows XP Marketshare Update

GenKilljoy

By the link, it is now a little more the 12% rather than 19%.

I really don't want to be a bother with the whole XP issue but I am really wanting it to become abandonware.
I only trust WinWorld to have it because I have downloaded from WinWorld before and it is great and safe.

Thank you guys a lot!

garirry

As many of us established earlier, it isn't an arbitrary number. The thing is, if 70% of apps still support Windows XP, then it is NOT abandonware. If you want to get it, your only choice is either buy it on eBay or pirate it yourself at your own risk. Maybe XP will be abandonware in three or four years, but for now, it isn't becoming abandonware anytime soon.

brassicGamer

I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with market share. Considering XP Embedded is still supported by MS, and companies can still pay for support for the full version, it will be another decade or so before it's considered 'abandoned'.

TCPMeta

Even if there is 100% no support at all MS came still put a halt on websites hosting it.

bleex

It may change sooner than expected as Windows XP does not support TLS 1.2 - and this is going to be required on secured websites.

os2fan2

Windows XP has a fairly entrenched user base, because by the time it came out, computers pretty much were leveling out. There isn't really a need to move from something that works.

I use windows 2000, because it works for me. I used XP for a while, before upgrading to 2000.

And the real thing is that there is still enough market share for people to still make sure it runs on XP.

I recently bought Ghost. It doesn't run on windows 2000, so Symentec sent me a key for the older version that did. Happy camper here.

ibmpc5150

Well, various XP is distributing via MSDN.
So I think it is still far to be abandonware.

thinkpadman

os2fan2 wrote:

I recently bought Ghost. It doesn't run on windows 2000, so Symentec sent me a key for the older version that did. Happy camper here.

I'm a bit surprised Symantec would offer a key as I'd imagine you'd have to go back a few versions from the latest. It would be like buying Office 2013 from Microsoft and asking for an Office XP key where they'd be more inclined (at least try) to convince you to upgrade anyway.

ibmpc5150 wrote:

IWell, various XP is distributing via MSDN.
So I think it is still far to be abandonware.

I don't think whether it's being distributed on MSDN has had much weight in the abandonware sense.

Take Windows 3.1 for example. Official supported ended in 2001, then it was still available for embedded use way up to 2007, and even after that is still now available on MSDN Subscriber Download page. Most people I'd imagine would have considered it 'abandoned' back around 2002.

GenKilljoy

I apologize about that. I didn't realize all the technicality and I should have read around the forum more about it. I WILL NOT bother you anymore about this issue.

BlueSun

thinkpadman wrote:

I'm a bit surprised Symantec would offer a key as I'd imagine you'd have to go back a few versions from the latest. It would be like buying Office 2013 from Microsoft and asking for an Office XP key where they'd be more inclined (at least try) to convince you to upgrade anyway.

Microsoft does provide downgrade rights though. It depends on what you get, but you can buy 2013 and get a 2010 key. I think they also did that with Server 2012 and Server 2008 R2.

thinkpadman

BlueSun wrote:

Microsoft does provide downgrade rights though. It depends on what you get, but you can buy 2013 and get a 2010 key. I think they also did that with Server 2012 and Server 2008 R2.

You're absolutely correct and it can be done with standard Windows editions, though I'd imagine this was going back a few versions for Ghost to be supported on Win 2000, not just the previous 1 or 2 versions.