10 twelvemonths in tech time is equivalent to around 100 years in real time, therein the engineering science that was relevant a decade ago is usually as utilitarian today as a Model T Fording. Yet someways the august Windows XP OS, which was infixed a tech-century ago in 2001, has held on.
StatCounter's stats on operating system market share, July 2010-July 2011
True, XP enjoyed a brief stay of execution thanks to the netbook furore, but even Microsoft has been trying to kill it off for a long time. Still, until evenhandedly late, most of the worlds electronics computer flowed Windows.