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Will dawn of Windows 7 bring XP's end?

The warm reception of Windows 7 suggested that the software giant will get the same or better response of the operating system compared to Windows XP. Therefore, the company is planning to introduce EOL (end-of-life) to the nearly decade-old operating system.

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Microsoft’s Windows XP continues to lead the market despite Windows 7's appearance in computer stores from October 22nd. In only eight hours, pre-orders of Windows 7 at Amazon.co.uk surpassed the demand Windows Vista had in its first 17 weeks. The warm reception of Windows 7 suggested that the software giant will get the same or better response of the operating system compared to Windows XP and also recovered from the poor image of company due to Vista’s performance.

After the arrival of Windows 7, the market for operating systems becomes complicated. Is Windows 7 just Vista with a facelift? Or the Redmond giant has learned from its mistakes and delivered a product that will restore its worn out reputation?

Latest Market Share

According to the Web metrics firm Net Applications, Microsoft Windows 7’s market share surges over the largest-ever declines in Windows XP and Vista in the November month. It is reported that the Windows 7's gains were largely at the price of Windows XP. The firm also said that for one copy of Vista replaced by Windows 7 during November, more than six copies of XP were swapped for the new operating system.

In the first three weeks, Windows 7 achieved over 4% market share, whereas Vista took five months to reach the same. In November, Windows XP accounts for 69% share with the drop of 1.45%, and Vista reports 18.6% share with drop of just 0.2%. However, the company kept its total operating system share stagnant at 92.5%, the same as in October. Meanwhile, Mac OS X and Linux have reported a market share of 5.1% and 1.2%, respectively.

Is Microsoft wants to kill Windows XP for Windows 7?

According to various analysts, there is a huge tail of XP in the market and Windows 7 is the great opportunity for all those people who declined to move to Vista. Further, the old horse of Microsoft has lived longer than expected; hence, the company is planning to introduce EOL (end-of-life) to the nearly decade-old operating system.

Microsoft has announced that from July 13, 2010, it will close down the support for Windows XP SP2, however, various critical security updates will be offered free of cost till April 8, 2014. Further, the company will also phase out the support for the Windows 2000 Server/Client on the same date.

The reason for such development is to pressurized businesses that skipped out on upgrading to Vista either due to technical problems may find themselves in a buying mood over the next 6-8 months. Also, Vista never come closer to the XP dominance, now the company does not want to repeat it second time.

Discussion

Microsoft has desired to kill Windows XP for years, but there was only one difficulty that is the consumers denied to let it die. But, after the warm reception of Windows 7, Microsoft is, once more, trying to axe XP. Also, Microsoft knows that Vista was a flop show and various other vendors are trying to take away Windows market share with their operating systems. Hence, the software giant should take any step carefully.

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Will dawn of Windows 7 bring XP's end?