14 DAY TRIAL // Windows 8 currently has a market share of approximately 5 percent, while XP is still powering more than 37 percent of the computers worldwide.
And as far as analysts are concerned, Windows 8 is highly unlikely to have the same market penetration as XP or 7, even though the Redmond-based company has already prepared the 8.1 update.
"Windows is still the standard, but it doesn't look like Windows 8 is going to have the same penetration as Windows XP and Windows 7 had," Brad Shimmin, a principal analyst at Current Analysis, was quoted as saying by CIO Today.
"It's still very much a Microsoft world in the enterprise, it's just an older Microsoft world. I think it proves pretty difficult for Microsoft to modernize its enterprise constituency for two reasons."
Windows 8.1 is expected to hit the market in RTM form next month, with people familiar with the matter claiming that end users are very likely to get it at about the same time.