Posted on 06/05/2017 8:34:41 PM PDT by dayglored
Windows XP is an operating system doggedly hanging onto life. Nearly 16 years after its launch, at least tens of thousands of XP machines remain in use.
One percent of the 4.6 million devices—smartphone and computers—examined by Duo Security were found to be running XP, with a large number of business PCs still using the OS.
Windows XP persists despite being released back in 2001, and, in most instances, Microsoft not having patched the OS to fix flaws that could be exploited by hackers since 2014.
"While support for the ancient OS ended in 2014, thousands of endpoints used in the enterprise still run on the legacy system," says Thu T. Pham in the 2017 Duo Trusted Access Report.
The statistics echo findings from a separate poll earlier this year, which found 52% of firms were still running Windows XP on at least one machine. Duo found XP remained more popular in Europe than in the US and Canada, with the OS on 2% of devices in EMEA, compared to 1% in North America. Meanwhile, other statistics estimate that XP remains especially widespread in China relative to the rest of the world.
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My father has a PC with the Windows version before XP with the tiles/frames. He jokes it makes him immune to viruses because they are all made to exploit only newer systems.
The greatest OS in computer history.
Xp works fine. 7 and 10 are just feature creep for no other reason than for Microslop to sell more OSes.
Dose works fine.
Still running Windows 7 Enterprise at work. By order of in house IT.
for later
for later
I admit it... I still have a copy of XP that I run from time to time for old versions of apps that don't like 7 or 10.
I’d guess their estimate is low by at least an order of magnitude. If you have trouble with the NCR self-checkout lanes at Wal-Mart for example, and the attendant is savvy enough to know how to recover from faults without rebooting, you’ll see they’re running XP Embedded.
Well, I'll agree that until about 2012 I felt that XP was the greated Windows OS in history.
After Win7 got SP1, it became my favorite Windows, and so it has remained. Considerably more stable under load than XP, in my experience anyway.
But the greatest OS in computer history? That covers a LOT of ground...
Still have XP at work, it’s fine.
Ask a Microsoft salesmen for a user what can be done with Vista, 7, 8 & 10 better than with XP.
Answer you get: They’re the newest thing, don’t be a dinosaur and/or Yo’ Momma jokes.
How about video rendering?
unix is older......
Assembly running realtime control code in embeded systems....
VirtualBox XP on 64 bit Linux...
I have 7Pro and intend to avoid 10 so long as possible.
I have an MGI photo program that was designed for W95. It does whatever it is I do with photos and is easy to use. It works on my W7 but I have to use another program to print from it, a Canon program that came with a scanner I got when I got W95. It still prints well but the program is a tiny block in the middle of the screen.
I never got blue screened with XP. Now I have W7 and get blue screened from time to time. I had thought that went away with W95.
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