Win 7 == 44.37%
WinXP == 37.17%
OSX == 7.18%
Windows 8 == 5.10%
Windows Vista == 4.62%
Linux == 1.28%
Other == 2.11%
Wow ... XP is still hanging on in a strong second place. I wonder if the folks in Redmond can read the hand writing on the wall ...
Would be interesting to see usage data from 2005 comparing XP to its predecessors.
I've got 4 machines.A "modern" laptop,a "modern" desktop and two old clunkers (that still work).I run 7 on the two modern machines and XP Pro on both clunkers.
I scraped Vista of of both my machines and replaced it with XP. MUCH better.
XP's success is due to Vista being a total failure. Businesses did not upgrade from XP to Vista when they heard how bad is was. Normally business skip a generation and since Vista did not "count", they were waiting on 8. Since MS will soon not support XP, 8 will take off.
The folks in Redmond will probably be thinking that just 2 years ago, XP had a market share of 48.3%, which is now down 11% to 37.17%, and that there is a huge XP install base to sell Win 7/ Win 8 computers to, especially when XP support stops in 2014. Pure upside.
If Gates were smart, he’d haul out good ol’ XP and slap a “Windows 12” sticker on it and everybody would be happy. One of our systems has Vista, which sucks. Two others have Win 7. I’m holding on to the XP system like grim death.
Of course, if Gates were smart, at the outset he’d have picked up WordPerfect instead of Word to include in the Office bundles.
I got both XP and 7. I will not use Vista (though I have it for fixing/reprogramming computers I repair, it’s a Dell Vista) and I definitely will not be using 8. We’ll see how things go with 8.1 after it comes out. I’m sure another service pack is already in the works for it.
I wonder what would fall under “Other?”
LOL Other!
Let’s see... in my house we have ONE OSX, two Vista, two W7, several XP, and a couple of Linux machines. it wasn’t that long ago, I still had several Windows 2000 machines, and a couple of ‘98’s.
ONE guy I know claims, as a beta tester for Microsoft since W 3.11, that Windows 8 is the bestest, fastest, leanest, meanest, and far and away the best Microsoft has ever produced. Which is interesting, as, as a flight simmer, W8 has been a handful of trouble. I’m loathe to go near it.
Why does OSX get to roll up all their flavors as one? A fair comparison would be to add up all Windows and compare to OSX.