14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has urged everyone at the Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 to support the XP to a newer Windows version transition, warning that sticking to the ancient OS is extremely risky for users.
According to a report published by ZDNet, the software maker wants Windows XP to drop to a 10 percent market share before the April 8, 2014 retirement date, just to make sure that most of its users are on the safe side.
Erwin Visser, general manager of Windows Commercial, explained in a statement that Microsoft and its partners would have to migrate no less than 586,000 Windows XP PCs per day over the next 273 days in order to reach this goal.
At this point, Windows XP is the second most popular operating system in the world, with a share of approximately 37 percent and still ahead of the newly-released Windows 7.