Windows 7 Trumps Vista By Reaching 20% Share

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 3, 2011 @12:19PM from the seven-of-one,-half-dozen-of-the-other dept.

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:Windows 7 by cheekyjohnson · 2011-01-03 15:12 · Score: 1, Troll

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.

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