Windows XP Is the Third Most Popular Operating System in the World

Bill Gates Windows XP — Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates.

People today nevertheless haven’t learnt their lesson when it arrives to functioning Windows XP, it seems.

Attackers took advantage of a recognised, significant flaw in Home windows XP to launch a cyberattack which is still resulting in chaos globally.

But the operating system nevertheless runs on lots of PCs about the earth, even however Microsoft stopped providing protection support on April 8, 2014.

In accordance to figures from Web Purposes, it is in fact the 3rd most common functioning process globally, with 7.04% market place share.

That means an out-of-day, unsupported functioning system is extra well-liked than any variation of Home windows 8, any edition of Mac OS X, and Linux.

Windows 7 and Windows 10 are much more well-known than XP, with all over 49% and 26% market place share respectively.

Below are the major 5 most well known operating devices, according to Net Apps:

Windows 7: 48.5%
Windows 10: 26.28%
Home windows XP: 7.04%
Home windows 8.1: 6.96%
Mac OS X 10.12: 3.21%

How a lot of XP-powered PCs does that translate to?

Analyst household Gartner predicted that there would be 2 billion PCs in use globally by 2014, but there have been no up-to-date figures due to the fact then. If we conservatively consider 2 billion as the selection, that suggests there at minimum 140 million PCs nonetheless functioning Windows XP.

Europol, the EU’s policing arm, warned that the cyberattack, regarded as “WannaCry,” will continue to wreak havoc this 7 days as folks return to operate and log onto their PCs. WannaCry is

ransomware

— destructive software package that encrypts people’s details, then calls for payment in exchange for decryption. It has hit at the very least 200,000 victims throughout 150 nations so far, according to Europol, and brought about chaos in the UK’s NHS, Telefónica in Spain, and many other organisations globally.

Even however it no for a longer time supports XP, Microsoft took the unconventional step of issuing an unexpected emergency patch for Windows XP, Home windows 8, and Home windows Server 2003 on Friday night.