Windows 8.1 Finally Passes Windows 8 In Market Share

An anonymous reader writes "May was the seventh full month of availability for Microsoft's latest operating system version: Windows 8.1 continues to grow slowly while Windows 8 remains largely flat, allowing the former to finally pass the latter in market share. At the same time, Windows 7 has managed to climb back over the 50 percent mark, while Windows XP still has more than 25 percent of the pie, despite support for the ancient OS finally ending in April."

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Re:ME and Vista

[mfh]

I am always ready to ascribe malicious intent to Microsoft, but this just smells like incompetence.

Flagrant incompetence is malicious. Systemic feigned incompetence a lesser form of evil. (When they release one good OS, then one bad one, then a good one... etc)

Maybe I wasn't being clear enough. If everyone is very happy with what their OS can do, they have no reason to buy another one (limiting MSFT's bottom line). Microsoft wants us to always be buying another OS from them. They won't simply perfect the OS and say "Done!", but it's even worse than that.

By increasing the hardware requirements they force us to buy new computers, which in turn means we will need to constantly be shelling out money to them every 2yrs, or every time a computer dies.

They break the OS each time intentionally so we will buy the NEXT one... if it's just as good as the one we have.

We're the dumb ones though. We buy the Vistas, the Win8s, the MEs... we BUY that crap. We're to blame!!