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Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years

Posted by kdawson on from the disturbance-in-the-force dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Windows Vista lost market share last month for the first time in almost two years, a sign that users are already abandoning the oft-ridiculed operating system in favor of the new Windows 7. According to Web metrics firm Net Applications, Vista dropped 0.2 percentage points during September to end the month at an 18.6% slice of the operating system pie. Windows 7, meanwhile, gained 0.3 percentage points, its biggest one-month gain since Microsoft began handing out the new OS to the public in January 2009. Windows 7 powered an estimated 1.5% of all computers that connected to the Internet last month, also a record."

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  1. just wait... by King-of-darkness · · Score: 5, Interesting

    you just wait for june next year when all the RC versions expire...

  2. Vista's share doesn't matter by Umangme · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Considering that Vista's share is less than 1/3 of XP's share (72% vs 19%), Microsoft will be more worried about getting people to move from XP to Win7. The 19% who have Vista really won't (can't, to be more precise) stay with Vista for too long. They will definitely "upgrade" (let's hope it's really an upgrade, not a regression).

    Microsoft surely doesn't want XP's ghost to haunt them like IE6's ghost has.