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Third of Desktops Still On Windows XP

The team at Net Market Share have released their statistics for November and shockingly, over 30% of desktop Internet users are still using Windows XP. The 12-year old OS will lose all support from Microsoft in four month's time, after which XP machines will not receive any further security updates and will become vulnerable to newly discovered exploits. XP's market

Adobe claims tablet traffic has passed smartphones and UK leads the way

Perhaps we knew this day would come, but certainly not this soon. However, Adobe today released some statistics that claim that the day has come -- "Our latest Adobe Dig­i­tal Index has revealed that global web­sites are now receiving more traf­fic from tablets than smart­phones, with 8% and 7% of monthly page views respectably". In conducting the study, Adobe analyzed more than 100

Bing Gains Market Share, Yahoo Loses Again

The latest search market share numbers have been released and two trends have continued - Bing is up and Yahoo is down.  The numbers have been posted by both Compete and ComScore and the trends shown by both are very similar.  Unfortunately for Microsoft, while Bing is gaining share on Yahoo, they are not getting anywhere in their battle against

Browser Market Share Shocker

It's been a while since I paid attention to web traffic, specifically browser numbers.  So, what I saw today was a bit of a shock. It seems things have been changing recently, on just about every front. For a start, I thought Firefox was gaining share.  I seem to think I heard that in several places.  I also thought Explorer