Windows 8 Must Battle XP for Large Chunk of User Base

While Windows 8 rolled out to great fanfare Thursday, it still has to fight fellow Microsoft operating system Windows XP for users.

The 11-year-old program has nearly 30% "usage share" worldwide, reports web analytics firm StatCounter. Although Microsoft stopped selling it in 2010, XP remains one of the most popular OSes today.

As of September, XP holds 27.64% usage share worldwide -- second only to Windows 7 at 52.2%, according to StatCounter. In the U.S., XP has 16.42%, while Windows 7 sits at 49.36% (the latter debuted in 2009).

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"Our stats confirm the theory that business users in particular have been reluctant to move from XP," said St…
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