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Exactly.

To be relevant, you'd need to consider this against XP's adoption taking into account rate of machine turnover.

Few people actually upgrade OS.

Yes, this means there hasn't been a compelling reason to upgrade OS. But that doesn't mean that much. There hasn't been a very compelling reason to upgrade machines in general.

It might signal that MS were solving problems with Vista (security mostly) that didn't really exist.



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