Data anomaly or otherwise, XP's continuing popularity poses problems for Microsoft



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The 13-year-old operating system's share grew by just below 0.3 percent last month, to 29.53 percent. This puts it more than 0.5 percent up from where it was in December 2013.

While the rise itself could be put down to data recording anomalies or global trends seeing more XP machines connected to the internet, the fact that XP has not seen a drop since November 2013 will be a worry for Microsoft. The firm will be ending support for XP on 8 April, and has been pushing consumers and businesses to upgrade to Windows 8 and 8.1 to avoid numerous security issues the end of support for XP will cause.

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