The reality that one third of companies continue to use Windows XP even in 2019
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In the business world, Spiceworks , an online community for the IT industry, revealed that “1/3 of companies continue to use Windows XP as of 2019”.
Network and Endpoint Security PDF Report-Spiceworks
(PDF file) https://www.spiceworks.com/marketing/network-security/pdf-report/
It's 2019, and one third of businesses still have active Windows XP deployments-TechRepublic
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/its-2019-and-one-third-of-businesses-still-have-active-windows-xp-deployments/
Windows XP, released in October 2001, has received tremendous support from users due to its stable operation and low required PC performance, and its popularity was initially planned to end in April 2009 It will be extended for 5 years. Such support for Windows XP ended in April 2014.
However, according to a report titled “The Future of Network and Endpoint Security,” one third of companies continue to use Windows XP as of 2019.
The following is a bar graph showing the percentage of companies that answered that they have at least one terminal with that OS installed for each OS. Looking at the part surrounded by the red frame, although the usage rate is lower than 42% in 2017, you can see that 32% continue to use terminals with Windows XP installed as of 2019 .
To Microsoft's headache, the usage rate of Windows 7 ahead of the end of support in 2020 is as high as about 80%, and the rate exceeds the usage rate of Windows 10, the latest OS.
Another survey that focused on shares also found that Windows 10 shares had just overtaken Windows 7 in January 2019, and the users who are stepping up from the old OS to Windows 10 migration The figure is highlighted.
James Sanders, a writer of IT information site TechRepublic , quoted the IT industry saying that 'Microsoft's most formidable rival is Microsoft' and indicated that this situation will continue to bother Microsoft for the time being It was.
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