The report said that Windows XP market share has fallen below 50% in July this year. [Figure]

According to foreign media reports, the latest statistics of Internet traffic monitoring agency Net Applications show that Microsoft Windows XP operating system in July this year Market share has fallen below 50%. This is also the first time since the Net Applications monitors the operating system market share, the share of the Windows XP operating system has fallen below 50%.
Net Applications statistics show that the Windows XP operating system, which has a history of ten years, had a market share of 49.8% in July, down 1.3 percentage points from June this year. Although Windows XP is still the most popular operating system in the Windows family, the decline in July's share means that Windows XP has lost its dominant position in the operating system market.
Prior to Net Applications, Israeli company StatCounter had said that Windows XP’s share in January had fallen below 50%. StatCounter previously released a report saying that Windows XP's share in July this year has dropped to 43.9%.
Although Windows XP still occupies half of the operating system market, Net Applications statistics show that Windows XP's market share has fallen by more than 12 percentage points last year. Just two years ago, before Microsoft released the Windows 7 operating system, the Windows XP operating system still accounted for nearly three-quarters of the entire operating system market.
Net Applications statistics show that the Windows 7 operating system market share reached 27.9% in July this year, an increase of 0.7 percentage points from July this year. In the past year, the share of the Windows 7 operating system increased by 13.4 percentage points, and the growth share exceeded the 12% drop in Windows XP.
Net Applications pointed out in the report that if the share of Windows XP continues to fall, the market share of the operating system will fall below 40% in the first quarter of 2012, and the share of Windows 7 will rise to 35%. It is expected that the market share of the two operating systems will be roughly equal; it is expected that by the middle of 2012, the Windows 7 operating system will surpass Windows XP and become the most popular operating system of Microsoft.
However, considering that Microsoft will release the next-generation operating system Windows 8 at some time in 2012, it is expected that the share of the Windows 7 operating system will peak after rising to 41%, and then it will fall back.