This is definitely true at the lawfirm where I work. Not including the IT dept., I can count on my hands the users that have WinXP on their machines. This is a sad statistic for Microsoft. We are looking to deploy XP and 2003 by year end (yeah, right), but we’ve only mentioned it, we haven’t even talked in detail about how were going to roll it out, etc.
An AssetMetrix study shows that half of business are still running Windows 2000 four years after the release of Windows XP, and that usage of Windows 2000 has only decreased by 4% since 2003. Microsoft will officially stop supporting Windows 2000 by the end of this month, offering one last update rollup later this year. Windows XP’s slower adoption illustrates Microsoft’s difficulty in competing with the popularity of its own software platform, and makes it more difficult for Microsoft to convince people to upgrade when Longhorn is released late next year.
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