14 DAY TRIAL // The end of Windows XP is only days away, but that doesn’t at all mean that users are ready for it, with stats showing that millions of PCs around the world are still running it.
That’s not the case of Australia though, as the majority of users in the country have already migrated to a newer operating system, according to a local Microsoft executive speaking for The Australian.
“Here in Australia we’re a fairly technologically advanced country; we’re early adopters of new technology, so we we’re not in that kind of position,” says Microsoft Australia’s Product Marketing Manager Emmanuele Silanesu.
Third-party figures provided by StatCounter seem to back these statements, as Windows XP is losing users in the favor of much newer products, such as Windows 8.
While Windows 7 remains the number one operating system in Australia with 43.92 percent, Mac OS X and iOS come second and third, respectively. Windows 8 is next with 7.01 percent, followed by the soon-to-be-retired Windows XP which is still powering 6.83 percent of the desktop PCs in the country.
Windows 8.1, the newest OS version introduced by Microsoft in October 2013, is just behind with a market share of 5.29 percent for the month of March 2014.