Windows XP usage finally falls below 50% mark

"it fell 0.63 percentage points (from 88.29 percent to 88.76 percent)."

That's an increase on 0.47% unless you meant a decrease to 87.76% as opposed to 88.76% which would be a 0.53% drop...

Interesting how the NSA wants people to upgrade. This must be because their surveillance of the population is dependent on the backdoors built into Window Vista and higher. Hence more of the drive to get people away from a perhaps more "secure" XP. Again, secure because they have more difficulty hacking your system.

You have to ask yourself why such the drive to shift the population. There's no real need for people to have the latest and greatest or 'be like the Jones.' Who benefits? Obviously not the consumer.

I, too, would like insite to the statistics. I personally own 2 AT towers and 2 laptops; only 1 runs Windows 7, the other 3 run Windows XP. My local area hospital (and the nearest 2 cities) use Windows Servers with Windows XP workstations and laptops. They are 'paperless' with all patient notes being entered via laptop or portable tablets. The county and state legal services and law enforcement, also use Windows XP. So, who's using Windows 7 or even Windows 8?

That's why we have, (and need), computers! To do the FLOP-erations for us...