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Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense
CWmike writes "Microsoft's Windows ran to stay in place last month as Window 7's market share gains made up for the largest-ever declines in Windows XP and Vista, data released today by Web metrics firm Net Applications showed. By these numbers, Windows 7's gains were primarily at the expense of Windows XP. For each copy of Vista replaced by Windows 7 during November, more than six copies of XP were swapped out. Meanwhile, Apple's Mac OS X lost share during November... betcha Ballmer is having an extra giddy time with that news. Linux came up a winner last month, returning to the 1% share mark for the first time since July. Linux's all-time high in Net Applications' rankings was May 2009, when it nearly reached 1.2%."
Linux has more than 20% of the non-MS market share!!!
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Oh dear I bit.
> 8,000 students * {student turnover period} shown just one OS. Will they see anything of Open Source apart from Moodle?
Now that's an education for you.
Incidentally, there are many Open Source OSs that have a cost of next to nothing but a value way beyond ***cheap***
Why do you think 7 is ***cheap***? It's not altruism, it's good business sense for MS to practically give away software for education.
As a matter of interest, can you tell me what you have really gained from moving from XP to Win 7 apart from a bit of a spring clean out (real demonstrable gains not just a prettier interface and a few more GP widgets to click on, oh and IPv6) ?
Or Just me? I have several NTFS formatted Seagate 2.0 Terabyte drives that are fine under Linux, XP SP3 and Leopard that appear as 99.9 Megabyte (NOT GigaByte) drives under Windows 7 and without any files. Rendering Windows 7 totally useless with my data. Yes, All drivers and the BIOS are both up to date for my GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard.