Windows XP, Vista Increases Market Share In 2020

FEBRUARY 1, 2020 - TYSON CONTINENT'S RETRO COMPUTER LAB

We collect the January 2020 Windows market share data. and we finally reveal the market share percent points of Windows 7 and Server 2008, as Microsoft drops the dreaded EOL bomb on the aging duo of OSes. Windows 7 ended life with around 18.8% of Windows users not wanting to upgrade to either 8.1 or 10. This is 2nd place compared to Windows XP's EOL market share from April 2014, which ended with 23.2% market share, but it at least ended better than Windows 98 and Vista, having ended in July 2006 and April 2017 with 6.53% and 1.66% respectively.
 * Windows Server 2008 = 7.91%
 * Windows 7 = 18.81%
 * Windows 8.1 = 5.51%
 * Windows 10 = 64.96%

The two OSes in the highlights this month are Windows XP and Windows Vista. Windows XP ended 2019 with a 1.85% market share and Vista with 0.18%. Though, something happened to them starting 2020. That's right. An increase happened upon the two. Windows XP increased from 1.85% to 1.91%, for the first time since November 2018, and Vista also got an increase for the first time since October 2019, from 0.18% to 0.2%, the amount that it had in November 2019.

How is this happening? There's only one explanation for this, and that's the infamous current Tysonlandian flagship most hated thing, the spoiled money juggernaut 8-year-old Ryan's World. Ryan's World has this super beefy gaming "laptop" on Windows 10 that he got for his 8th birthday. You'd be expecting him to be playing RDR2, or Crysis 3? Right? You are wrong. He's playing one simple simple game known as Roblox.

Roblox? You'd expect that to run on a Core 2 Duo of the sorts and a "graphics card" like the Nvidia G210 or the AMD HD5450, which is in no way the best CPU and GPU you'd get, not a Ryzen 9/Core i9 and RTX 2080 Ti! In fact, this "laptop" is actually encouraging people to switch off their current Windows 10 and go to dust off their XP and Vista PCs from years ago instead. Imagine being so hated that you encourage people to stay away from your current PC's operating system in favor for something years older!

And because of these circumstances, Windows XP and Vista are not likely to stop increasing either very soon. But what about Windows 8? We've already mentioned 8.1, its sister OS having a 5.51% market share at the beginning of the report, but Windows 8 is sadly not increasing due to Ryan like Windows XP and Vista are doing. Instead, it continued to decline, from 0.76% ending 2019, to 0.71% starting 2020. Windows 8 is dead, and you should upgrade to Windows 10, if you're fine with Ryan being a slob. Otherwise, downgrade to Windows XP like everyone else is doing.