Windows 8 records slight growth spurt at expense of XP

The market-share of Windows 8 seems to be climbing a bit faster than before. This is revealed by data collected by NetApplications, a company that tracks usage of operating systems and browsers. In July 2013 Windows 8 had a market-share of 5.4%. In August this year Microsoft latest operating system achieved a 7.4% marketshare, a 2% growth.  This means that 7.4% of all desktop computers currently runs on Windows 8.

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The increase of markets-share of Windows 8 is at the expense of Windows XP. In July 37.2% of all desktop computers was running this nearly 12 year old operating system, while in August this dropped to 33.7%. The most popular Windows version remains Windows 7 which  grew from 44.5% in July to 45.6% in August.

Microsoft's overall market-share on the desktop is not at risk at all, the software giant's Windows OS is installed on 91.2% of all desktop computers. Apple's MacOS is installed on 7.3% of the PCs and Linux hold 1.5%.

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