WIN8.1/8skyrocket,surpass WINXP which plummet and outpace in growth rate win7 for first time,WIN7 reached 56.41%!WIN10 might be free for WIN8/8.1users,is this helped or XP users finally just switched?

[SvennoJ]

Sentient_Nebula said:

Hardly unexpected, but hardly "skyrocketing" either.

Windows XP support ended recently, which is why it dropped 10%. Windows 7 and 8 took up the slack with about a 5% boost for each.

Yep, my dad got an email from his bank a couple of months ago that he would no longer be able to continue online banking with XP. Forced to upgrade.