{"id":14996,"date":"2014-08-20T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T17:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/b2b\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2020-02-26T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:54:51","slug":"survey-windows-xp-share-is-still-above-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/survey-windows-xp-share-is-still-above-16\/14996\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Windows XP share is still above 16%"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 16% of all PC users who agreed to provide data to the distributed global Kaspersky Security Network were still working on computers running Windows XP as of June 2014. This is the fact from the new survey \u201cWindows usage and vulnerabilities research\u201d carried out by Kaspersky Lab experts in the summer of 2014.<\/p>\n

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The overall feelings on\u00a0Windows XP are:\u00a0It\u2019s longevity is breathtakingly awesome<\/a> \u2013 and awful at the same time, since it\u2019s clearly the most malware-targeted OS, and after Microsoft dropped its support earlier this year, potentially the most defenseless one. <\/p>

Windows XP share is still over 16%. #Kaspersky #survey<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n

Why do people stick with it? Nostalgia (never underestimate the nostalgic feelings!), habits (yet another potent bonding substance), feeling like \u201cOkay, it works, so let it be\u201d, etc. Sometimes emotional bonds are much stronger than stern logic.<\/p>\n

Besides there are financial reasons as well:<\/p>\n

\u201cBoss, Microsoft dropping the support for Windows XP, we really need to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes it mean that XP no longer works?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNah, but\u2013\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what\u2019s the problem?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s old, insecure and\u2013\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInsecure? I remember having employees that should care about security. And if you don\u2019t know who they are, check the mirror next time you\u2019re at the restroom. Now get lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s\u00a0a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. Businesses really prefer to keep to the familiar software, especially if there is some custom things written in-house for certain operating systems.<\/p>\n

So the rate of renewal is far from desired.<\/p>\n

Besides Microsoft released an embedded system of PoS terminals based on Windows XP as late as in 2009<\/a>. Some cunning fellows even suggested to leverage this circumstance<\/a> in order to keep receiving updates for Windows XP for a few years on (its extended support will end on April 9, 2019<\/a>). Microsoft, of course, objected<\/a> saying it wouldn\u2019t do the trick.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the actual figures from the new survey show that Windows XP epoch is near the end. It is still more used than Windows 8.1, it will definitely stay for a while yet, but the figures show that each year the popularity of Windows XP decreased roughly by 10 percentage \u2013 due to various reasons, and the most likely one is hardware upgrades.<\/p>\n

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The last time users could buy a PC with pre-installed Windows XP was years ago (XP went off sales completely in 2010), so Windows XP\u2019s still large share is shrinking with every new PC\/laptop bought. And given the 10% yearly decrease rate, by the end of 2016 Windows XP\u2019s share probably (and hopefully) will be vanishingly small. <\/p>

Windows XP will probably fade away only by the end of 2016 #security<\/p>Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, Kaspersky Lab will keep supporting Windows XP in its solutions \u2013 both end-users and business-oriented \u2013 until 2016.<\/p>\n

For more details and figures kindly refer to full version of \u201cWindows usage and vulnerabilities research\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Windows XP’s longevity is fascinating – and terrifying from the security point of view. The latest survey shows it’s still around – over 16% of KSN users still use Windows XP, but it is also clear that its epoch is near the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":16017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1999,3052],"tags":[38,119,268,600],"class_list":{"0":"post-14996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-smb","9":"tag-microsoft","10":"tag-survey","11":"tag-vulnerabilities","12":"tag-windows-xp"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/survey-windows-xp-share-is-still-above-16\/14996\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/survey-windows-xp-share-is-still-above-16\/14996\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/survey-windows-xp-share-is-still-above-16\/14996\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/microsoft\/","name":"Microsoft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33290,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions\/33290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}