With support for Windows XP due to end next week, XP's market share has predictably started to decline... but it's not benefiting Windows 8 nearly as much as it's benefiting Windows 7. The Next Web points out that NetMarketShare's latest numbers show a predictable decline of nearly two percentage points for Windows XP over the last month along with a rise of a combined 0.62 percentage points for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and a rise of 1.46 percentage points for Windows 7. This means that between the end of February and the end of March, Windows 7 adoption grew more than twice as fast as Windows 8 adoption.
Windows 7 has the most to gain from XP’s impending demise