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Windows 8.1 Finally Passes Windows 8 In Market Share

Posted by Unknown on from the slightly-more-than-zero dept.

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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  1. dont want it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    i dont want 8.1 if it means signing up with fucking microsoft/windowslive id to get it, fuck off

  2. Re:12.64 percent in only 17 months by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, from a structural standing, Windows 8 is fine, even better than the ones that came before.

    It's the UI they changed.

  3. Re:12.64 percent in only 17 months by Penguinisto · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is a shame the next update still won't have the promised start menu.

    Yeah, but funny as hell that, combined, Windows 8.x (all versions) is only ~25% after three years (a complete tech cycle in the consumer realm). It's doubly funny that this is in spite of every bix-box OEM pimping 8.x as hard as they friggin' can (go ahead and try to buy a laptop in BestBuy or Wal-Mart with something other than Windows 8 in it...)

    Now compare that crappy growth curve to XP, 98, 95...

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  4. Re:12.64 percent in only 17 months by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For the majority of users the OS is the UI.

  5. Re:12.64 percent in only 17 months by Beck_Neard · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean 40% of servers, 96% of supercomputers, and 80% of smartphones/tablets?

    Linux may have started out as a desktop OS, but now it's very much a server/enterprise/workstation (am I allowed to use that word anymore?) OS. Oh, and also embedded devices and phones (really, everything except the desktop). Turns out, the average person who buys a PC is going to use the OS the computer ships with and will never upgrade.

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  6. Re:12.64 percent in only 17 months by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And who, exactly, wants a touchscreen on a laptop? Touchscreens are a crappy interface for devices too crappy to include a keyboard and mouse.