Only Windows 7, with around 47 per cent of the market, sits above Windows XP, with the much maligned Windows 8 taking just shy of seven per cent of the OS cake.
Many security flaws uncovered in Windows Vista, 7 and 8 may also apply to Windows XP, with hackers potentially able to use Microsoft's own security updates to find new ways of exploiting the ageing operating system. The final security fixes are part of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update for 8 April 2014, the last time Windows XP will be included.ĭespite the end of Windows XP support, it is estimated that 27.7 per cent of the world's computers still use it. Worryingly, these updates fixed two critical security flaws that would have allowed hackers to remotely execute code. Microsoft's 8 April support deadline has been and gone and the final security updates for Windows XP have now been released.
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