Windows 7 has the most to gain from XP's impending demise

With support for Windows XP due to end in a few days, project 2016 professional market share has predictably began to decline?- but it is not benefiting Windows 8 up to it's benefiting Windows 7. The Next Web points out that NetMarketShare's latest numbers show a predictable decline of nearly two percentage points for Or windows 7 during the last month along with a rise of the combined 0.62 percentage points for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 along with a rise of 1.46 percentage points for Windows 7. Which means that between your end of February and also the end of March, Windows 7 adoption grew a lot more than twice as fast as Windows 8 adoption.

None of this is that surprising. windows 7 home premium is a very polarizing operating system for many PC users and those who have resisted upgrading from Windows XP with this long will most likely decide to go with a platform that feels more familiar to them and never a platform that's radically different from that old one.

Speaking of Windows XP, NetMarketShare says still it taken into account 27.69% of the desktop market at the end of March, meaning there are plenty of users out there who are prepared to brave the storm of malware that hackers have plaed for them once support ends on April 8th.