Windows 8 is certainly polarizing but it's certainly started to gain momentum over the last month. The latest numbers from Net Applications show that Windows 8 machines accounted for 7.4% of all desktop computers in August 2013, up two percentage points from July when they accounted for 5.4% of all desktops. The rise is Windows 8 adoption has coincided with a fall in use for Windows XP, which saw its share of desktop computers fall from 37.2% to 33.7% between July and August, a drop of 3.5 percentage points. Since Microsoft plans to drop support for Windows XP next year, the platform's market share plunge should only accelerate more in the coming months.
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