I believe this is a case of self-confirmation bias.
Checking for similar articles from 2003, around 2 years after the launch of XP, I found this gem: "Windows XP, the most current version of Windows, was found on just 6.6 percent of the [business] machines" (http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39161686,0...).
To be relevant, you'd need to consider this against XP's adoption taking into account rate of machine turnover.
Few people actually upgrade OS.
Yes, this means there hasn't been a compelling reason to upgrade OS. But that doesn't mean that much. There hasn't been a very compelling reason to upgrade machines in general.
It might signal that MS were solving problems with Vista (security mostly) that didn't really exist.
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I believe this is a case of self-confirmation bias.
Checking for similar articles from 2003, around 2 years after the launch of XP, I found this gem: "Windows XP, the most current version of Windows, was found on just 6.6 percent of the [business] machines" (http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,39161686,0...).
Exactly.
To be relevant, you'd need to consider this against XP's adoption taking into account rate of machine turnover.
Few people actually upgrade OS.
Yes, this means there hasn't been a compelling reason to upgrade OS. But that doesn't mean that much. There hasn't been a very compelling reason to upgrade machines in general.
It might signal that MS were solving problems with Vista (security mostly) that didn't really exist.