Windows 7 Surpasses 10% of Internet User Share

Oh Noes! The Stampede of Windows 7!

I wonder how fast XP penetrated the market. That would be an interesting comparison.

Microsoft did an excellent job with Windows 7. I have been using it since the beta, and this is the first time I bought a Microsoft product without waiting for a service pack. I also believe this is the first MS OS that I have never seen a BSOD. Terrific job on 7 I have to say.

The only BSOD I've ever had with Win7 was when the SATA cable to my main drive fell out while it was on. Win7 didn't even care until it needed something that wasn't already in the RAM. That's when I got the BSOD, although I can't blame Win7 for that.

i remember win98 ppl bohooooing XP as the XP did on vista/win7

I guess it's like the transition from win98 to ME/XP all over again. How sad to compare Vista to ME...

anyone remember when Windows 2000 was THE choice for gaming OS?

then XP dominated that market after SP1 came out....

Vista was pretty decent OS but not great for gaming as it was actually slower than XP on many popular titles....

YAY for MS to get Windows awesome again after so many years!!!!

O M G~ ~ ~ ! ! !

Nothing was worse than the migration to Windows ME! Are you NuTZ!? Except perhaps for the Logitech input device users that had the Logitech software installed when they upgraded to Windows 2000 and their system BSOD! Omg and then the Driver war was on and everyone was pissed that microsoft didn't have drivers for there hardware and vendors decided .... oh ... well....ok i guess we will create drivers for Win2k but, don't expect to see them for another year.....failsauce vendors....Creative.com anyone?

Windows 7 fairing far better than teabag alternative in early adoption.

Windows XP was garbage compared to Win2K. It stayed that way until SP2.

Our company is actually moving to Win7 from a 99% XP Pro desktop environment. I have Vista and Win 7 at home its absolutely painful for me to use XP anymore.

One thing I do have to note is that I have had about 3-4 BSOD since running Win7.

Another way to look at it... Windows 7 has obliterated the market penetration of all OSX versions in 5 months.

I certainly want to see those numbers, I want to see the numbers for all the OS's.

I want to penetrate the market...

Beccasuuusseeee?

I rarely use XP anymore. My recently built desktop is windows 7 X64. And although I still have XP on my laptop in dual boot with Linux Mint, I mostly use Linux.

I finally broke down and installed Win7 four months ago when I built a new system. So far have not had any problems.

If they'd simply fix the 2D performance to make it hardware accelerated like XP I'd make the switch to windows 7.

Damn we are old, yeah, I dont think anyone used windows 2000 after sp1, its amazing how they messed with the windows naming system back then.

... i'm hocked already... my laptop [h.p.] an desktop [u.e.] is all 7... there is some issues about sound in the way i used in XP, but does not work in 7... but there is way's around... and the benefits of 7... uuu... and the poor-man's SSD'like feature with readyboost(tm)... search in 7... network setup is awesome... not like 'it's just works', but it works for me...

So Win 7 with SP1 around the corner has finally caught up to the amount of Apple users on the net.

Is this a message with radio transmission interference?

I still haven't really seen a real difference between Vista and Win7 (at home and work as an IT professional for 20 years). Both work perfectly for me just as Windows ME did... go figure. Heck, I seem to be the only one who liked ME more then Windows 98 (which fixed all the problems I had with 98).

The X.1 editions always do far better. We learned that with Windows 3.0/3.1, Windows 95/98, and Win 2000/XP. Looking at the internal versions, Windows 95 is 4.0 while Windows 98 is 4.1, Windows 2000 is 5.0 while XP is 5.1, and Vista is 6.0 while Windows 7 is 6.1. Windows 7 fixed everything that was really wrong with Vista. It really doesn't surprise me that it is doing a lot better than Vista. These adoption lines are virtually the same as Windows 2000 compared to Windows XP.

I had very good luck with WinME, graduated to WinXP Pro which still uses WinNT technology. In between there tried Win2000 but it presented so many difficulties that it wasn't a problem for me to go to XP. Never liked Vista (and yes, I've used it on other people's PC's) but I am looking forward to putting Win7 64 on my PC revamp (MOBO, CPU, RAM and O/S) this summer.

Any word when SP1 is coming out?

Someone said it above but win2000 was a lot more solid and I think XP took a while to really catch on. I personally didn't upgrade to xp until 2005 because 2000 was so awesome.

That being said I'm not sure what people were bitching about with Vista, my guess is still that folks tried running it on old hardware. I've two vista systems and never had any issues with them.

I believe that they caught up to Apple's share in 5 weeks.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/w [...] ,9159.html

Apples gains are pretty much done now. They had marginal gains during Vista (MS most hated OS ever). Even if the dislike for Vista was misplaced, it was still there. Now that the world is embracing 7, it is a sad day for Apple..... oh wait... they have the ipad.

I'm running XP and I still see no need to upgrade to Windows 7 (and I tested it for a longer time). For the most part, I see Windows 7 as Vista with some junk removed (which you can do manually as well).For me it got be some major architectural change to justify the upgrade(like it was with Win 9x -> XP). Tons of useless gimmicks don't make my work routine any faster, actually it just distracts me.
As for stability Windows 7 is no match for tried and tested Windows XP.

a lot of the advantage to Windows 7 and Vista aren't something you can see. The security mentality is totally different with the newer OSes.

There are 3 main advantages that make Windows 7 and Window Vista better from a security standpoint: UAC, Memory randomization, and Network security.

UAC keeps the smarter users from getting hit with viruses and spyware. there isn't a way to get past it if it is combined with removing the user's admin rights. Some people find this annoying, but those are the stupid people who get infected with malware all the time anyway. If you recognize the usefulness (and the fact that both Apple's OSX and Linux use this same format, only requiring passwords as well) then you learn to live with it just to keep your box safe. (Of course, I can't run WoW without admin right either, so I have to keep my admin rights on my main user account. It's annoying, but when the program needs to be patched, then it needs to be patched.)

Memory randomization reduces the ability of malware to run its code using buffer overflows. I'm not certain how this is accomplished, since I'm not a programmer, but that was the biggest obstacle for the guy who hacked IE8 in the last hacker contest. I guess it took him an extra week to get around that part of Windows 7 security. Many of the troublemaker hackers are too lazy to bother with trying to get past that. The profit seeking ones will get past it, however. That's where UAC comes in to help protect.

The network security is far, far superior to XP, though. XP's firewall is a "allow unless blocked" type setup while Vista and 7 have a "deny unless allowed" setup. This means that all ports are blocked from the outside unless you specifically open them, unlike XP, which leaves all the ports open to outside access unless specifically blocked.

There is also a non-security related improvement that I can really appreciate: not needing a floppy drive for SCSI and RAID controller drivers during installation. Considering how many times I've had to reinstall XP and needed a stupid floppy drive to get a driver, I'm really happy about that part.

There are also some other differences that are of limited value, such as DirectX 10 and 11 that allows more direct access to hardware. However, those aren't really worth mentioning.

I forgot to mention something - I meant this from the perspective of an advanced user. I don't want operating system to act as a nanny to me. All these features you mentioned I get from superior and more secure third party products and with much finer control. Actually using microsoft tools is risk by definition as they are always highest on a hacker's priority list. Anyway no software can make you secure if you don't know what is going on your PC. I never ever have problems with malware even though I spend a lot of time on the Internet.