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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