While the Redmond survey suggests Windows XP will maintain a higher share than Gartner is forecasting, numerous banks, hospitals, schools, government agencies, offices of all sizes and consumers are at some stage of addressing the fact they must either upgrade their systems or find a new way of protecting them.
"By end of year we think it will be down to the mid-single digits - so 5 percent or 10 percent," Silver said. analyst Michael Silver said in a recent Webcast that he believes the share of Windows XP systems in use will drop dramatically. According to last month's Net Applications report, Windows XP accounts for 30 percent of PCs. Only 28 percent say there are no Windows XP-based systems within their organizations, a telling sign that the OS remains pervasive. According to the survey, 16 percent are scrambling to migrate while 25 percent plan to migrate at some point but it isn't a major priority and 8 percent haven't decided what they're going to do. IT pros will defiantly ignore Microsoft's deadline, while many others who procrastinated are scrambling to migrate to something else. Windows XP will remain populated on 23 percent of desktops and laptops indefinitely, according to a Redmond magazine survey of more than 3,000 readers. Also fueling its post-mortem existence is a sizable number of steadfast holdouts who have no plans to give up their Windows XP-based systems.
Nevertheless, it will have a long afterlife, thanks to recent changes by Microsoft and help from third parties, which plan to help prop it up after the company pulls the plug. Barring an unlikely change in Microsoft's firmly stated plan to retire the venerable PC OS, the April 8 Patch Tuesday will represent the last day of official support for Windows XP. Nearly 13 years since Microsoft released its second-most-widely used version of Windows, the official end of life for Windows XP is now days away.
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