Enduring Windows Operating System XPires
Updated: 11:42am UK, Wednesday 23 April 2014
By Tom Cheshire, Technology Correspondent
The workhorse that is Windows XP is off to the glue factory, after 12 years of dutiful service.
But it can be hard to say goodbye to a faithful old operating system (OS) - especially for businesses and governments.
According to Kaspersky Lab, nearly 18% of computers used by consumers and businesses still use XP.
So why have people stuck with the operating system for more than a decade?
First off, Windows XP was pretty solid: not as intuitive or secure as the Mac OS family, but good enough for the job.
It was a good platform for a whole host of applications, which businesses could pick and choose from.
And the OS was installed on a fairly reliable generation of PCs, which have gone a long time without being replaced.
If anything, XP was perhaps too solid.
Businesses and users chose to stick with what they knew rather than upgrade to systems like Vista, 7 and 8, which had much publicised teething problems.
Organisations that can't risk their systems going down - in finance, or government, for example - stuck with XP.
Fewer and fewer individuals are, though.
The proliferation of tablets and smartphones, which tend to use Apple and Google designed operating systems, means proportionally fewer computing devices run Windows than ever.
Consumers are increasingly happy to manage a pool of different operating systems - on their phone, tablet and computer - and hop between them. Windows XP may be the last operating system to endure for a decade.
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