From TechWeb News: Nearly half of all business PCs still run Windows 2000, the aging Microsoft operating system that's moving into extended support at the end of June, a Canadian asset-monitoring software vendor said Tuesday. "Windows 2000 has been an extraordinarily success operating system," said Steve O'Halloran, the managing director of AssetMetrix Research Labs, the arm of the Ottawa-based firm that analyzed the data collected from more than 150,000 PCs in 250 companies. "Perhaps too successful."
Later, the story says:
According to AssetMetrix's data, Windows 2000's share of the corporate Windows market has shrunk by just 4 percent since the first quarter of 2003, and now is pegged at 48 percent. Windows XP, meanwhile, accounts for 38 percent, up from a measly 6.6 percent two years ago. The gains in Windows XP came primarily from users leaving Windows 9x -- Windows 95, 98, and Me -- and were most impressive in companies of fewer than 250 PCs, said O'Halloran. The larger the firm, the stronger Windows 2000's presence, he added.
