It's interesting that xp still has a 37.9 % market share.

Cystoscopy next month. Oh boy. :-(

It all shows how bad is incompatibility of newer versions.

It illustrates more than anything else the power of inertia.

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Illustrates that maybe some corp users have extended support for WinXP.

Windows-XP was the first truly-successful 32-bit Windows. It had everything that people actually needed at the time, and most importantly, it was stable. Millions of copies were sold, mostly to corporate users' corporations.

But, unfortunately, Microsoft didn't (couldn't) negotiate continuing, mandatory, revenue-streams from it, so that it would become "the gift that keeps on giving" (in the ways of IBM = "Income By the Month," who doesn't actually sell anything).

Since then, they've kept trying to sell "er" versions of Windows, none of which are what users actually want, which is: "a 64-bit Windows-XP." They've flopped so badly, and so repeatedly, that for a time Apple ran a series of hugely popular ads ("I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC") which lampooned their efforts. Their latest version is unfortunately no exception.

Windows-XP is still at the center of extremely important things ... like, medical devices and medical data systems. (Which, by the way, is an excellent motiation to stay healthy!)

Embedded XP could still be in lots of point of sale equipment like gas pumps, self checkout equipment, ATMs, cash registers etc...

Up until less than a year ago I was using XP at work but, by now, I think almost everyone in that organisation has stopped using it so that's about 40,000 instances of XP disappeared in the last year.
I tend to think of Windows 2000 as "having all that is needed in an OS" in that it was the kernel space of the NT line and the user-space of the consumer line meaning that things like networking and security worked (for a given value of worked) and so did things like USB hotplug. The desktop environment was also about all I need and I find most things, with the exception of compositing for transparency, introduced to the desktop since to be of limited use. Mind you, I do use XFCE so...

Every once in a while they get something right.

Prior to XP it was NT. That was huge for servers. And so of course they stopped support for that too.

Joking possible translation: The people responsible said "C'Ya Later!" and so they had no one to support it.

Well, it is significant, now, that XP is a 32-bit system whereas modern hardware is 64-bit, and applications have grown to become even more memory-hungry as a result. But the system that I'm seeing people settle onto is Windows-7, and they're busily configuring it to look as much like XP as possible.

Yeah, one of the self-service checkouts was booting-up at the local Tesco Express recently when I was in there. Definitely XP.

I once walked past a Wells Fargo ATM ... last year ... and saw ... "OS/2 Presentation Manager!"

There are many industrial systems that still run xp and have no great need if the lan is protected on not connected.

Pretty sure they got rid of all the OS/2 ATM's. Yes, almost every ATM did run on OS/2 and IBM did provide (though contractors) support well beyond what they wanted to.