Windows 8.1 overtakes Windows XP on Steam

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Valve today updated its Hardware & Software Survey for December 2013, and the news is once again very good for Microsoft. Apple and Canonical have less reason to celebrate Steam usage for their respective platforms, but Windows 8.1 is doing great, having now overtaken Windows XP.

Here is the December 2013 operating system list for Steam, in order of biggest to smallest share:

Windows 8.1: 8.83 percentWindows 8: 11.14 percentWindows 7: 63.35 percentWindows XP: 6.35 percentWindows Vista: 4.89 percentMac OS X: 3.68 percentLinux: 1.07 percent

Breaking down the numbers even more, here is how each operating system version fared:

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