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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%."
Your skepticism is warranted, but I downloaded Win 7 last summer and was VERY surprised with my custom built desktop that Win 7 (after asking, of course) got online and downloaded every driver I needed for everything inside and plugged into the computer without a hitch.
I never went to Vista, but have been very pleased with Win 7. They simplified numerous things, redid options and the way windows handles a lot. MUCH BETTER than Vista.
OK sure, it is not a whole new operating system that throws everyone backwards and makes it difficult to find what you were looking for. How often has Apple or Linux done that? What makes this new is that they changed most of the items that people complained about, streamlined it, and made it solid (using it for 5 months without BSOD or locking).
Everyone is still welcome to throw mud at MS as they see fit for everything they don't do well, but Win 7 doesn't perform or behave like Vista in numerous ways.
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You were fair in your assessment until you disrespected Linux. What you don't understand is that people upgrade due to benefits. 9.10 adds some nice features over 9.04 as 10.04 will add nice benefits over 9.10. Linux is a solid and stable OS with great features without huge hardware requirements and little to no malicious software to get in the way.
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If that isn't proof Linux is awesome
That isn't proof that Linux is awesome..
then I don't know what is.
Me neither.
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