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Windows 7 powers four per cent of PC market, says research

by Tarinder Sandhu on 13 November 2009, 09:59

Tags: Windows 7, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)

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Last week we wrote about Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7, selling significantly better than Windows Vista when compared on first-week sales.

Now a statistic-gathering company Net Applications has said Windows 7-powered machines account for four per cent of the PC market - just over three weeks from official launch. The figure is based on 160 million visits to Net Applications' client websites.

Four per cent doesn't sound like much, but Vista took around five months to hit that figure.

Dig a little deeper and it appears that pre-release versions of Windows 7 - free-to-download RC1, for instance - are being considered, so the figure isn't as impressive as it at first sounds.

Think Windows 7 has it cracked? It has a long, long way to go to beat the 70 per cent share held by venerable XP.

Hands up, who is still using Windows XP as their main operating system?.

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Posted by Flibb - Fri 13 Nov 2009 10:24
Still on xp at work, but they are looking to jump to 7 early next year. Like a lot of corps vista never had a look in.
Posted by Phage - Fri 13 Nov 2009 10:26
It's the corporate standard. As soon as MS cracks that market, which will most likely happen with W7, then the numbers will move very fast.
Posted by Percy1983 - Fri 13 Nov 2009 10:42
From friends and collegues people are starting to move there personal computers to Windows 7.

As it is I tired getting them over to Vista, most said the heard bads things etc but the few I did convince where with me that Vista was actually a great OS if you ignored the early driver issues (anybody remember when XP first came out).

But it does seem that many are moving over to Windows 7 as its so much better than Vista, I do agree its marginally better but would hate to tell them that 7 is just a re-skinned and optimised Vista.

But as above I do think businesses are where the bulk of XP users are now. Much like my office it seems the IT team are very ‘if it isn’t broke why fix it', which means they will only move from XP when Microsoft stop supporting it and even that might not be a big enough push.
Posted by jimbouk - Fri 13 Nov 2009 11:26
I'm getting tempted to roll back to XP from 7 due to instability and compatibility issues. Although a dual Linux/XP for general use/gaming might be a better solution.
Posted by kingpotnoodle - Fri 13 Nov 2009 11:47
I've already started moving a few people on at work… they are by and large happy to have their PC with Windows 7, it's new and shiny.

Few issues thrown up in domain services, and that's what will be the sticking point IMHO. To get the most out of Windows 7 in a domain setting it's necessary to have the directory servers running 2008 R2, which has it's own set of migration issues (loss of 32bit versions for a start).

Business is the key to those market share statistics though…

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