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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%."
It's more difficult to add items to quick launch in the tool bar. That's progress for ya!
I drank what? -- Socrates
Yeah, let's make the art students use GIMP and econ students use OpenOffice and and and... The less enrollment, the less stuff we have to buy, right?
If people are moving from XP or Vista to Win7 then its upgrades almost entirely.
Jibe!
I installed Windows 7 64 bit at work this week. I'm rolling back to XP.
Maybe you can contribute my problems to being 64 bit. But, the apps I need to do my job aren't going to work. I asked around the office and discovered other developers are running all of their important apps on XP or Vista VM's.
I tried to install VS 2005 32bit (which I need for existing apps). The installation warns of "known issues" and recommends an update. Even it won't install properly and the update can't find the install. I just don't need those kind of aggravations. So, count me as one of those "switchers" who upgraded from Windows 7 to XP.
Wake me up when I can install the apps I need.