Usage of Windows XP

This page gives analysis of how Windows XP is still being used in the 2020s.

The Netmarketshare results for February 2020 are out. Down to 1.35% worldwide usage. What will trigger the XP extinction (less than 0.1%)? Firefox dropping support won't help as there are third party browsers like Mypal, New Moon and the Chinese browsers. Steam dropping support won't help either as most XP era games are still physical or have been patched. We're facing XP usage for years to come.

Update for May 2020
It's actually getting more popular again, Its market share went from 1.23% to 1.54% March to April 2020 on Netmarketshare. People are getting out their old spare computers or buying them off eBay and using them. Also gamers making builds for older games. XP will be considered a 2020's OS just like it was a 2000s and 2010s one.

Update for July 2020
Down to 0.84%. The slight revival has been short lived, as major sites start dropping support for Windows XP making it hard to use online, even with specialist browsers. But this only measures online use. Windows XP is still as popular as ever in embedded environments and in offline environments with specialist applications. Most casual Windows XP usage is going, but enthusiast usage is rising as the rise of XP as a retro platform becomes more prominent.

Update for September 2020
Down to 0.78% on both Netmarketshare and Statcounter. The shutdown of Windows update and the back to school new computer purchases are lowering Windows XP even more. Will probably be below 0.5% by the end of the year.

Armenia usage mystery
According to Statcounter, Windows XP has an unusually high market share. But evidence from other sources indicate that this isn't true and it is just an Anomaly in Statcounters data.

Netmarketshare stops counting
Their final data is 0.87% for October 2020. With Windows XP's market share getting too small to count reliably, it is probably a good thing that they stopped updating. With a Windows 10 & Chrome(ium) majority, other platforms are too small to matter, even Microsoft the original browser monopolist gave up. Most of xp’s remaining usage is from people curiously running it on virtual machines or retro build hardware than in every day use. Most business use is on offline machines as only a very foolish business would use xp online.

Stat counter and the Wikimedia foundation are still counting, and have recorded 0.76% and 0.3% market share. By the end of 2021 we probably be below 0.5%.

Update for January 2021
Despite officially no longer counting Netmarket share put out a data update for January 2021 claiming 0.5% usage. Wikimedia counts just 0.24%. Statcounter records 0.67%, with rises to 0.80% on weekends.

Update for April 2021
Windows XP has fallen to “0.0%” on W3schools.com. If it dosen’t rise again they could stop tracking it all together. Also Windows Phone is down to 0.01%. Wikimedia counts 0.15% for XP. Statcounter still records 0.77% but a lot of it could be bot traffic.

Update for May 2021
Netmarketshare down to 0.49% Wikimedia is becoming increasingly unreliable and reporting from 0.16-0.32%, but a lot it is bot traffic. Very few people actually use Windows XP online any more and most XP usage is done offline so any Windows XP traffic should be considered bots or not worth tracking as it is very inaccurate with a small sample size.

On this wiki
The analytics page on this wiki show that it is one of the few sites on the internet where Windows XP is the dominant operating system.

No more updates
The amount of XP usage is basically too small to count properly and varies a lot when people get out their old machines on weekends too much. It is basically too small to matter and nearly everyone has a newer machine or phone to use the modern web on. Just like most classic cars don't get used every day XP is no longer an every day OS for 99.9% of people.

Milestones

 * On April 9 2019. POSReady 2009 reached end of life. Ending unofficial patches for XP.
 * January 14 2020. Windows 7 end of life. Making XP three generations obsolete.