 | Microsoft has this odd target of reducing Windows XP's market share to 13 %. So far this has been a total failure since the market share for November was 31,22 percent. It was 31.24 percent in October and 31.41 percent in September. So the market share is practically not reduced at all and Microsoft wants it reduced to 13 %. |
It is the mindset of a monopolist to have a target of reducing the market share of one product like that. They seem to anticipate that everybody will replace Windows XP with Windows 8 or at least Windows 7.
This arrogance might backfire since Linux would be an excellent user friendly alternative to XP, and as we have seen - Microsoft had great success with reducing their Market share in Munich; they had even more success with the French Gendarmerie.
Those are hardly what MS had in mind - but they could set a standard for the many professional XP users out there.
Nobody in their right mind would replace XP with Windows 8. Windows 7 has a better chance since computers with Windows 7 do not have restricted hardware.
And a switch from XP to Win 7 is a big jump - not bigger than switching to a Linux distro like Suse, Debian or Ubuntu.
The advantages are obvious: No viruses, no backdoors, no dependencies, more control, and longer life for the hardware.
That has to be tempting....
So maybe MS should not work to hard on that goal.
