Windows XP is about to exit the market

According to foreign media reports, Chinese computer users will experience a period of hardship in getting rid of Windows XP dependency. Windows XP, Microsoft's most successful operating system, is only eight months away from the deadline of August 2014, when Microsoft will release the last security upgrade. The problem is that many personal computers around the world are still using this age-old operating system, and in the next few months it seems that these computer users cannot get rid of this 12-year-old XP operating system. To adapt to the new operating system.

According to a report from the market research company Net Applications, 37.2% of the world's personal computers were still using the Windows XP operating system last month. If Microsoft estimates that the data of 1.4 billion Windows PCs worldwide is accurate, nearly 570 million PCs are using Windows XP. Although the deadline for the arrival will attract a lot of attention in the world - a widely-cited Windows blog will call this deadline the "coming of the Windows XP Final Judgment Day" - and in fact some countries have encountered the problem is Other countries can't compare.

For example, according to data published by Net Applications, 16.4% of US personal computers in July, that is, one in every six units was using Windows XP.

However, in China, XP still occupies a dominant position. Last month, 72.1% of personal computers, that is, three out of every four, were still using the operating system that was about to be phased out. On the day when XP was withdrawn, China faced a four-fold more difficult situation than the United States.

While the remaining eight months have passed, China's situation has become increasingly difficult rather than improving. If someone predicts that the recent trend of reduced use of XP continues, its share will decline to between 9.1% and 11.1% by April 2014. However, the issue in China is even more tricky because the number of Windows XP users in the country is still decreasing as in the United States, but the current higher percentage makes it difficult to solve the problem. As of April 2014, the proportion of XP is still between 65.2% and 65.7%. Eight months later, China's XP problem is six to seven times more serious than that of the United States.

Speaking of the XP issue, this is indeed an overstatement in the United States, but it is just as good as the example in China.

Many industry and popular bloggers have discussed the reasons why XP is enduring. Some attributed it to the operating life of this operating system - which has been verified for more than ten years of use. Others have pointed out that the business community continues to use XP because some internal applications are inherently available even on other systems. , but it takes a ton of money to upgrade these applications. In addition, a notable feature of China is that users are all prone to piracy, which has led to an indifferent attitude towards the alternation of the old and new systems.