The day has arrived when Windows 7 is finally being used on more computers that Microsoft' Vista operating system, a mere ten months after Windows 7 was released to the public last October.
Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system currently has 14.46 per cent of global market share, overtaking Microsoft's previous operating system Vista, which currently has 14.34 per cent according to the latest figures from Net Applications.
XP leads by country mile
However, Windows XP still leads the way, by a country mile, with over 61.97 per cent of the global market share of PC operating systems.
Microsoft's nine-year-old operating system has dominated the PC experience for most over the last decade, with Vista never managing to top more than 20 per cent of the global market for PC operating systems.
XP has proven to be persistently acceptable to the vast majority of users over the last decade, with many clearly choosing to pass Vista by.
In other OS news, Apple's Mac OS X holds around five per cent of the global market, while Linux holds around one per cent of the market and Apple's iOS for iPhone and iPad has grown over the last month to hold 0.7 per cent of the global market.
Via PC Pro
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thetruthhurts..
March 16th 2011
7. @bradavon I LOVE the fact that mac osx has only 5%, in fact I wish it had less! Keep the prices high Apple, I've never had a virus and I've never used any virus protection on my macs! Apple are not aiming for the mass market with osx, long may than continue. I use win7 at work and it is a good product, however my mac just works flawlessly all the time at home running demanding photo/video/music editing software.
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anteaus
October 10th 2010
6. Though, you wonder how many of these would use XP -or for that matter Linux- if they had a choice in the matter. Stats based on captive markets tell us little about the real opinions of a product.
Thing I notice about all recent Microsoft products is that any notion of ergonomics or intuitiveness seems to have been abandoned in favour of geekfest and eye-candy. True, these products have enormous power but none are easy to use, many are downright frustrating, and a few are so cussedly awkward that they can't even do the job they were sold to do. Like, for example, wordprocessors which can no longer be operated by speed-typists because the keyboard shortcuts are missing.
How long users will continue to tolerate this situation is anyone's guess, but it doesn't take much research to discover that Linux, MacOS and iPhone/Android are now way in-the-lead over Win7, Office 2010 and WM7 as far as ergonomics and general ease-of-use are concerned. When the punters start to wise-up to this, MS could be in for a very hard time.
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gripwing
August 3rd 2010
5. is there an os out there that give's me just the basic operating system and no bulls*^t programs? it would be great if we could choose to download what programs we like.
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saveusjeebus
August 2nd 2010
4. I doubt much of the world can actually afford anything made by Apple. They are a niche market like BMW; you pay a large premium for a "better experience". At least Win 7 is awesome, now I dont have to put up with any lip about OS X
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bradavon
August 2nd 2010
3. Fair point but you have to ask yourself, why don't they sell in that many markets? I'm sure they could strip back the mark up to still give a quality product but be able to sell in markets that cannot currently afford Apple kit. I know it's all about the experience with Apple but surely the software can speak for itself, it doesn't have to be put in such high end kit/cases etc...
That said, for a company as big as Apple (they're now globally the most wealthy tech company), their flagship OS worldwide is only 5%.
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duskrider
August 2nd 2010
2. @bravadon - That's worldwide for Mac OS... Apple doesn't sell in many markets. Where they do, their percentage is double-digit.
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bradavon
August 2nd 2010
1. I give XP another 3-4 years tops. By then most of the hardware it runs on will be so old, people will naturally be upgrading to Windows 7 or Windows 8. Microsoft let XP be their OS for way too long. It allowed people to get far too used to it (in a way they never did before). An effect we're still seeing today.
Apple have only managed 5% for MAC OS. That's shockingly poor.
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