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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: 2) by Ken_g6 on Thursday July 03 2014, @08:47PM

    by Ken_g6 (3706) on Thursday July 03 2014, @08:47PM (#63806)

    I just bought a Sandy Bridge laptop with Windows 7. It's not significantly slower than a new Haswell would be. If it weren't a laptop, or if it's plugged in all the time, its higher power use wouldn't matter either.

    Computer advances, in general, are slowing, and the old stuff often works just as well as or better than the new stuff.

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