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Things that contribute toward a reduction in the widespread use of Windows XP. I love XP and will miss it when it's gone.
Internet Explorer 9 . IE9 requires Windows 7. Microsoft will not put IE9 hardware acceleration features in the current version of its browser, IE8, or back-port IE9 to older PCs running Windows XP.
Security Patches. [Microsoft is] trying its hardest to kill the operating system that won't die, including refusing to issue security patches for XP SP2, putting many XP users at risk. A report out, August 2010, from Net Applications shows that Windows XP has more than twice the market share of Windows 7 and Windows Vista combined -- 61.87% for XP in July, compared to 14.46% for Windows 7, and 14.34% for Windows Vista. Source Link
Hard Drive Formats. International Disk Drive Materials and Equipment Association (IDEMA) said as of Jan 2011 all new hard drives will support Advanced Formatted media, meaning that sector size will increase from 512 Bytes to 4KB. XP does not natively supports 4KB sectors. XP users must use of an intermediary emulator (512B emulation mode), which will reduce XP performance.
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