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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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You will be married within a year, and divorced within two.
(Score: 2) by meisterister on Thursday July 03 2014, @07:31PM
Seriously? Basically every problem with vista is fixed except for the mediocre IO scheduler. Why is it not surprising that Vista II (Windows 7) is gaining market share? They're basically the same thing except for that one is faster on spinning rust.
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Thursday July 03 2014, @07:42PM
Agreed, at least as far as Win7 is concerned.
Win7 is quite possibly the best desktop system Microsoft has ever produced. (Which, of course is not saying all that much).
While unnecessarily complex, occasionally obfuscated, it is far more secure than most of their offerings, and is robust as hell.
Windows 8.x makes no sense what so ever unless you have a touch screen. Even there, its an annoyance.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday July 03 2014, @09:51PM
> Windows 8.x makes no sense what so ever unless you have a touch screen. Even there, its an annoyance.
You say that like you don't like having gorilla arms.
(Score: 1) by jbruchon on Friday July 04 2014, @11:22AM
My favorite thing about Windows 7 is I can still change the UI behavior to NOT use the GPU and CPU for pretty colors and largely return the appearance to that of Windows 9x if I want to. I actually LIKE the two-pane Start menu design and the [winkey]+[arrow] split-screening (and the drag-to-edge equivalents) are perhaps the most useful features ever added to the usability side of an operating system.
Windows 8's "flat" appearance infuriates me to no end, especially with the near-invisible scroll bars it forces upon us. The "flat and oversimplified" trend in UI design desperately needs to stop. When they did it to iOS 7, I literally could not find the Settings icon because it didn't look like a gear anymore. It looks like some crappy attempt at concentric circles with lines through them, or perhaps someone abusing a spirograph.
I'm just here to listen to the latest song about butts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03 2014, @07:44PM
To paraphrase Steve Ballmer: drivers, drivers, drives!
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday July 03 2014, @08:08PM
That dude definitely snorted/smoked some coke before he did that developers speech. He was already sweating when he came out on stage, a sign of coke use. Doesn't mean he was on coke, but I'll be damned if he wasn't.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Friday July 04 2014, @10:35AM
You are the first one that's ever given him any kind of benefit of the doubt in this regard. Almost everyone who that topic has sneaked into discussion with has said to me that he had to be high off his mind on something. This puts you somewhere between decent human being and microsoft apologist. It's definitely one of those. I'm sure of it.
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