Windows 7 Usage Passes All Versions of Mac OS X

Yup, have been using it. I'm surprised it's not higher. As soon as businesses start adopting it, Win 7 will sky rocket.

It took over a month to do this?!

Took a month, to pass ALL MAC OS X.. Impressive considering that this is still a new OS, that WIN7 has not even began a corporation rollout, (still have IT people learning it), AND on top of that, NEW machines with the OS are just not becoming more and more prevalent. And this is >1 year penetration from apple. Fanboys just make my day..

Vista's next (currently, Vista: 18% - Win 7: 5 %)

No surprise really, People don't want Vista and 7 is the first decent choice of Windows since XP. And that was 8 years ago. How long did it take Vista to reach that achievement? Anyone?

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Looks like 6 or so months.

Christmas is coming... within a month OS X will be far behind.

So, what does it make "a decent choice" again? Is it again "much faster"?

Now what was that apple about pc users switching to macs? this seams to prove them wrong.

People didn't want Vista because it got a unfair bad name early. I've had Vista for three years and it has done an outstanding job for me. It crashes far less than XP did, it was easier to use than Xp and it has more options than XP. Windows 7 is just a deluxe version of Vista, most of the Vista drivers work in Windows 7 because it is Vista deluxe. The media couldn't bad mouth Windows 7 enough this time to keep it down because everyone has worn tired of Xp. So when you fire up your new Windows 7 just think you could of had this two years ago if you didn't listen to all the negative crap and just tried it.

not faster but... to be honest, as I jump from XP to 7 I can finally say that I have something new to look at.

Vista 64 is rock solid for me, just a powerhouse. I have no bugs or complaints at all with it (once I disabled UAC anyhow). I like Vista better than Win 7 at the moment...the start menu and lack of the classic interface is a biggie for me, I just like the simplicity better. Why did Win 7 remove that? I don't get it, couldn't have been that big of a deal to offer a choice in that regard.

Why does people compare a very slim n basic OS to a full blown functional (more features) , flashy yet still in the slim margin, better and beautifully done OS in speed??? Win 7 is better and only lose in term of boot up times ( a few seconds wont make u feel any different) ... get over it...

I have been nothing but impressed with Windows 7. It still has yet to crash from a problem unrelated to over clocking. It even survived moving the boot partition from my spare drive to my main drive (installed where my old vista partition was). The only sad thing I can think of is my Dad just went out and bought a 13" MAC...I feel like I have failed as a son...oh well, his loss.

Poor guy nicklas87, I feel for you.

"Windows 7 usage surpassed all versions of Mac OS X combined."
I don't get it... really.
What kind of benchmark is this and what exactly does it measure?

Frankly the only surprise i got was to know that MacOS was leading in someway ahead of ALL Windows, especially Windows XP!!

Now, honestly, this measure and this news is really ridiculous, no matter what OS we're talking about.

You are talking bullshit...

Bullsh1t isn't the word... insanity is. This IS news.

I have now contributed to 4 of those windows 7 installations, what about you guys?

One install, but more to come once I buy some spare buys after the new year. Might get that cheapo laptop from Best buy on black Friday though, and that has windows 7 on it.

I installed Win 7 Pro (x64) on a new ASUS mobo this week, so far flawless. I installed it today on an HP Laptop, excellent. It's cool to watch it find drivers, set up printers, etc. The laptop has never worked better. The ASUS desktop is a joy to use. Win 7 is going to go down in history, that's for certain.

What a ridiculous article. Of course it outnumbers Mac OS X users. With the number of different manufacturers shipping Windows 7 with no other choice. The number of users does equate to quality of either operating system. Microsoft is lucky Apple doesn't release OS X for use on any computer. If users had a choice, the numbers would be totally different.

I have added a 64-bit 7 Ultimate that doubles as a hackintosh. So is that +1 for Win7 and -1 for osx? Would this box be considered a Wackintosh7?

Got news for you: my Pentium 75 overclocked to 120 mhz can boot up Windows3.1 in 4 seconds flat! How fast is your XP?

C'mon, give it a break. Windows 7 is pretty darn fast considering how much more advanced it is than XP.

Already have two copies of Windows 7, picking up a 3 pack soon to get my other machines on board!

I'm SE7ENIZED!

I hope you didn't buy a new OS just for the looks. There are plenty of other OSs you could have bought in the meantime if you wanted something new to look at. Personally I'd prefer an OS that was completely invisible because the OS doesn't help me get work done, the applications do.

This is an unsurprising piece of news. It was going to happen, it was just a matter of how long before it happened. I will never get over that picture of Ballmer.

No sir, that is called awesome.

Well almost, just throw Ubuntu on there as well.

If apple ever released their OS to every manufacturer,they would have bugs and driver issues and due to the increased numbers they would become targets of hackers who for the most part are familiar with the unix like structure of OS X to begin with (os x is actually easier to hack into than windows)in other words they would lose their advantage in every way and pretty much be destroyed by microsoft which has already estabilished its foot hold and has been dealing with these issues for years....the problem with mac fan boys is that they think they know.......but they really don't.

well i am the opposite i always liked the vista start menu and never went back to the classic version. i could care less about the removed quick launch bar as i find the programs in the taskbar as icons and the new aero peak features of going from window to windows better than what orher versions of windows have done.

Yup. I'm sticking with Vista on my desktop, I love it. I do have Win7 Pro on my laptop for faster startup times and more battery time, but I don't like that they made Libraries default and took away a lot of the icons in Explorer. I do like everything else about 7 though.

Why is M$ so worried about OSX?
Mac's make up ~10% of the market.

Its like me beating someone 10 times smaller then saying "yeah, look at me, the big tough man"OS

That being said M$ should be worried. Its been losing market share to Mac.

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