Even though Microsoft announced the retirement of Windows XP, it is still pretty much popular with the users. According to a Forrester survey, Windows XP is still the most widely used operating system with as much as 87.1 % of the companies surveyed using it. XP Hurting Vista Badly:

According to a recent Forrester survey, less than 10 percent of the 2,300 companies surveyed use Vista. Forrester says 87.1 percent of companies surveyed continue to use Windows XP.

The survey also reports about the truth in Microsoft’s self professed sales figure for Windows Vista:

The report negates Redmond giants claim that over 180 million copies of Vista have been sold. Also, what may be more disturbing for Microsoft is that many of the pre-loaded Vista machines are being downgraded to XP in compliance with corporate licensing plans.

There was a silver lining in the report about Vista:

The report also had a bit of good news for Microsoft. It found Vista usage among businesses going up by more than 40 percent since January and that the rate of adoption of Vista remains twice that of Mac OS X. 

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