I wonder if that's the norm rather than a Japanese peculiarity. it's a bit like that in Germany too - mostly small and middle sized companies are dominating, a

I wonder if that's the norm rather than a Japanese peculiarity. it's a bit like that in Germany too - mostly small and middle sized companies are dominating, and people don't like to upgrade that much over there. The end of support for Windows XP last year used to be a major shocker, so the issue got some media coverage and reports were generally speaking of the danger to smaller firms [1]. Still nowadays only 17% of all installations are running XP (down from 26-30% last year). [2] [1] http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/windows-xp-eingestellter-support-gefaehrdet-unternehmen.769.de.html?dram:article_id=282369 http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/windows-xp-eingestellter-suppo... [2] http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_presse/archive/2015/04/08/windows-xp-ein-jahr-nach-support-ende-deutlich-weniger-nutzer-aber-risiken-bleiben.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_presse/archive/2015/04/...