Support for Windows XP
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Feb 26 12:56:25 EST 2014
François Chaplais wrote:
> Le 26 févr. 2014 à 18:31, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
>
>> 11 Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux, Survey Claims
>> <http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/windows-xp-users-may-switch-linux>
>>
>> This article notes that as of October there were about 500 million
>> PCs running XP:
>> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/01/six_months_end_xp_support/>
>>
>> So if the survey methodology pans out, that'll mean roughly 55
>> million new Linux installs.
>
>
> The methodology is flawed, as it does not take into account those who
> flee Linux (which is not an OS, but a kernel) like the plague.
Agreed, every OS has switchers, both to and from.
Do you have a URL which measures the Linux attrition rate?
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