Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years

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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Re:Not even October 22 yet...

[Anonymous Coward]

This shows something, that Windows 7 is being intensely marketed, with massive astroturf campaigns and an unprecedented level of misleading hype, especially considering it is a bland and uninspiring OS which has barely changed in over a decade.

FTFY.

Re:Vista got some really undeserved looks.

[RoFLKOPTr]

It wouldn't be so bad, but (in technical terms, at least), user interfaces are what Microsoft do well. I don't have a good word to say about MS on the whole, but aside from two or three glaring exceptions, they do seem to have a knack for making things accessible to the less technical end of the user spectrum. So when someone tells me that if they couldn't even get that part right, I have to wonder what horrors lurk elsewhere.

It's not that they did a bad job with the user interface... it's that, until Obama came along, people were just afraid of change. Let's all hope that with Obama in office, people can finally accept the change that has been brought to their computer interfaces.

Wake me when the death watch is over...

[Dreadneck]

These Microsoft death watches have become almost as cliche as the annual YOTLD penguasms. Yes, Vista sucked just like ME, but so what? In both cases users were able to stay with/fall back to the previous OS version and wait for MS to get it right. I'm betting Win7 will see a large and rapid uptake just like XP did.

Waiting around for the competition to fail is not a winning strategy. Linux had a chance with the Vista debacle and blew it - as evidenced by Linux's share of the OS pie still hovering at around 1%.

Until the Linux community realizes that it is the state of the apps holding back adoption of the OS and decides to do something about it, Linux will never gain a significant share of the pie.

Even with the Vista debacle, Microsoft's total share of the OS pie (win98, winME, winNT, win2000, winXP, and Vista) is still 92.71%. Hell, Linux barely beat out Windows 2000 for market share!