Windows 7 market share is slowly rising.
Windows 7 has officially been a part of the worldwide mass market for more than a week and a half and now makes up more than 3.6 percent of all PCs tracked by research firm Net Applications.
Net Applications tracks OS usage statistics through information reported by internet browser software. On October 21, the day before the official launch, Windows 7 usage was at 1.89 per cent, according to Channel Register. By launch day, the number hit 1.99 per cent, constantly rising to 3.67 percent it hit on November 1.
Throughout October, various versions of Windows made up 92.52 percent of the browsing market, with Mac OS X taking 5.27 per cent, and Linux at 0.96 percent.
Despite the steadily growing Windows 7 share, Microsoft's OS as a whole have been falling as Windows had nearly 94 percent of the market in December 2008. Share of Mac OS X and mobile browsers appears to have modestly risen in its place.
All things considered, 1% is a pretty decent number of people. If 2 billion computers are being accounted for then that is 20 million people using Linux distros. Granted its a small share of the market but still a sizable group of people. What is more stunning to me is that Apple only has 5% compared to Linux's 1% and look at how ridiculously in your face Apple is with their advertising. I guess I thought MacOS was closer to 10% by now but it's probably just because I can't go 30 seconds watching TV without seeing one of those ridiculous Mac ads.
All things considered, 1% is a pretty decent number of people. If 2 billion computers are being accounted for then that is 20 million people using Linux distros. Granted its a small share of the market but still a sizable group of people. What is more stunning to me is that Apple only has 5% compared to Linux's 1% and look at how ridiculously in your face Apple is with their advertising. I guess I thought MacOS was closer to 10% by now but it's probably just because I can't go 30 seconds watching TV without seeing one of those ridiculous Mac ads.
This would have the result of increasing the total number of computers being tracked, and thereby pushing the percentages.
1 All the free upgrades get to the users and they upgrade ( most users wont drop what they are doing to upgrade)
2 Any it department\cio will hold of at least 30 days if not 90 before jumping in ( 30 for us to get the cost on this years accounting )
3 Alot of users wont upgrade till they need a new computer or windows rot sets in.
4 in some places getting a box copy is harder then you think.
5 alot of IT will hold off untill 2008 r2 and exchange\sharepoint 2010 are out first half of next year.
I'm still staying with Windows, even if Apple would sell it's OS for free!
You have to have installed the upgrade and be running Win7 for it to count.
In other words this info is reported by what OS is being used to browse the net. How the OS was bought (or downloaded) is not a factor. Coupons that shipped with a machine are also not a factor, only what OS is currently installed and in use.
People need to upgrade, NOW.
Ubuntu it's a wonderful OS i really mean it, it's performance it's outstanding if you are looking for a web browser/programming/workstation tool or else but gaming, if you have gamer's wood you are doomed. You could work around some games if you have some knowledge about Linux and with lots of help of forums and stuff, Linux community it's a very rich one into human resources.
That's why i think it's not a fair market but what can we do, games move this World! face it the best solution for gamers it's MS.. and i don't see that changing any time soon....
I'm also curious how much of that Apple 5% is actually Hackintoshes? That would be interesting. Still nice to see Apple's attempt to brainwash the masses seems to be failing.
A lot undeserved I think. I was using vista for quite some time, after SP1 it was perfectly ok as an OS, after SP2 I'd say it was a good os, certainly better than xp so long as you had moderately up to date hardware (like not over 6 years old). Apart from just a couple of major cock-ups (*cough* transfer speeds *cough*) the majority of complaints came about because of either bad support from third party software and hardware (partly MS's fault, but given how long it was in development, other manufacturers had plenty of time to get involved and sort their shit out), or because people just wouldn't accept that they couldnt keep running their out of date hardware.
As one review said, Vista was necessery, it was never going to be popular because it required a lot of change, necessery change, to improve both security, reliability and the low level graphics system. Windows 7 owes a huge part of its success to vista, and I am still amused when people slam vista but say 7 is great.
That said, I think MS knew they would take a hit over vista.
I would really like to see how Google's OS is doing for online market share.