Windows 7 Trumps Vista By Reaching 20% Share

CWmike writes "Windows 7 cracked the 20% share mark last month, a milestone the problem-plagued Vista never reached, Web measurement vendor Net Application said over the weekend. Gregg Keizer reports that Windows 7's online usage share reached 20.9% in December, up 1.2 percentage points from the month before. Windows Vista, meanwhile, fell by half a point to 12.1%, its lowest share since July 2008. Vista peaked at 18.8% in October 2009, the same month that Microsoft launched Windows 7. The other standout finding: XP is projected to still account for 13% when it's retired in 2014." An anonymous reader adds news that Google's Chrome browser is nearing 10% market share.

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Re:Here come the "its not better than XP" posts

[crhylove]

1. UAC - Cruft, annoying, and a total CHARADE of security.

2. XP x64 while hard to find drivers for is a better performer than any other Windows derivative. FACT I use it.

3. I've already reformatted dozens of Win 7 machines, so if you are trying to say security is somehow better than XP: FALSE.

4. Does somebody use this? How does it help?

5. I have several 2tb drives running happily on xp machines. I have not seen/purchased a larger drive yet.

6. I haven't used this. Haven't seen it. Don't know what it's for. Every business I support has IDE or Sata drives, no SSD.

7. Bullshit. Just as many virii as XP and Vista. Maybe more. Absolutely abysmal compared to EVERY Linux distro.

8. Updates are slow, frequently crash, and include malware that would hurt most of my clients. Same as in XP.

9. Compared to VLC? FAIL

10. OK, so 1 sysadmin somewhere in the arctic might actually notice/use this. Compared to Linux? FAIL

11. You mean a giant ugly one that doesn't recognize portable apps at all? FAIL

12. This I'd like to see. Other than x64 support (and as I said, XP x64 is much faster), Win 7 has been slower than XP in every benchmark I've thrown at it.

13. Agreed. You should try Linux Mint. Because other than getting off Windows altogether, moving from XP is definitely a down grade in every situation, for every user.

XP IS better. As a sysadmin I've had nothing but problems migrating customers from XP. By default I now reinstall OEM XP over Vista/Seven as step one in the standard workstation build. Everything just works. The menus are easy to navigate, well documented, and not randomly changed for no usability improvements. Windows 7 is crap. It's better than Vista, but so is punching myself in the face.

Try Linux Mint 10. It's about 50,000 x better than Windows 7, and has all the features you CLAIMED Win 7 has, but done properly. For my clients that require Windows software, I'll not be moving them away from XP until Bill Gates comes to my house and shoots me in the face. Oh wait, he did that: It's called Vista/7.

Re:Windows 7

[cheekyjohnson]

Win7 stays out of my way, doesn't nag me about things

Well, yeah. I don't think I've ever had an operating system "nag me" before. What does that even mean?

Honest, I just can't imagine not wanting to upgrade to Windows 7 (unless you have really old hardware with really limited memory and CPU speed).

Perhaps people don't want to pay hundreds for an operating system with a few improvements at best. Call me when they do something revolutionary or extremely noteworthy. It probably is good, and if I got it on a new computer I certainly wouldn't mind, but I'm not going to upgrade for a few features.