Windows XP users are less centrally-located than other users. They are less likely to have configured it to use the English or German locales. It might interest you to know that Windows XP users are more likely to have configured their Firefox to run in the Russian, Polish, or Spanish locales. I used a longitudinal dataset that we’re experimenting with internally, which is why all of my figures aren’t linked to analyses. Intrigued by this result (as I too know no one still running XP) I tried to find out what was different about the XP population as compared to the wider Firefox user base, and what was the same. Well, this is called an “inherent bias”: just because it doesn’t happen to you doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. “But… Who? I don’t know anyone who is using an operating system two years past its end-of-life.” you might be thinking. (For the record, Linux users on these two channels make up less than 1%) That’s almost as many as are using Windows 10 (15%) and almost double how many users we have on Mac (6.7%). Roughly 12% of Firefox users on release and beta channels are running Windows XP. Why am I talking about it, almost two full years after even Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP: the most long-supported of OSes from Redmond? Because people are still using it. Windows 8 lost it after 3 (if you include 8.1, it will only last 9). Windows 7 will end-of-life after only 10 years, in 2020. That’s four and a half years after XPs true successor, Windows 7, was released. It was so popular that Microsoft kept sending it security updates and assorted bugfixes up to April 8, 2014.

Released in October of 2001, it was an incredibly-popular upgrade to the previous champion, Windows 98 Second Edition.

The most-used Operating System until August, 2012. Speaking of fourteen-year-old technology: Windows XP.Īh, Windows XP.

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