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Windows 7, XP and Even Vista Gain Market Share

posted by n1 on Thursday July 03 2014, @07:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the back-from-the-dead dept.

present_arms writes:

The Register is reporting that the market share for the elderly OS's are on the increase.

Whatever Microsoft is doing to get punters adopting Windows 8.x isn't working, at least if the latest figures from Netmarketshare showing its older operating systems growing faster than its latest progeny are any guide.

We've now tracked Netmarketshare's data for nine months and as the table shows, Windows 7 has enjoyed steady growth over that period. Windows XP has also had its moments, as it did between May and June 2014 when it accounted for 0.06 per cent more of the operating systems Netmarketshare detected with its methodology of digging through web server logs.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by ScriptCat on Thursday July 03 2014, @07:17PM

    by ScriptCat (4389) on Thursday July 03 2014, @07:17PM (#63749)

    The secret formula is to take a system everyone has learned to use since childhood and whimsically rearrange all the controls, change how everything is done, have and exception for every rule in the system operation, require all new hardware and throw out support for your existing code base.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03 2014, @11:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03 2014, @11:32PM (#63870)

    They've been doing that since the beginning of Windows.
    Every single release has a re-arranged Control Panel. I've wondered if they're being paid off by a cabal of tech support workers who hope to keep the tech support business alive by confusing users.

    Where are the internet settings?

    Under Network! No wait, under Internet Options! No, wait, under Network Connections!

    How about uninstalling a program?

    Easy, it's under Add/Remove Programs. For a decade. Then, for fun, it's Programs and Features.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04 2014, @08:20AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04 2014, @08:20AM (#64043)

      Well, Add/Remove programs never did add any new programs.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by Jaruzel on Friday July 04 2014, @01:01PM

        by Jaruzel (812) on Friday July 04 2014, @01:01PM (#64128) Homepage Journal

        It does if you are installing apps on a Terminal Services enabled server. You are asked to do it via Add/Remove Programs so that a 'wrapper' can monitor an install and re-shuffle bits accordingly to make the new app work for multiple users. Also, under Add/Remove programs you can add new features which can also include new application not in the default install of the OS.

        But yeah, Programs and Features is totally less intuitive. They royally screwed up the Control Panel from Vista onwards.

        -Jar

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        This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.