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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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Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03 2014, @09:47PM
Windows 8 had already failed, so the more amusing stat for me is the Firefox market share. They lost another 1.27 percentage points this month:
http://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=1&qpcustomb=0&qpsp=162&qpnp=24&qptimeframe=M [netmarketshare.com]
They were cruising along around 20% up until May 2013, but then they decided to start destroying the user interface. Since then Firefox has been in steady decline and have lost nearly a quarter of their users.
At what point do they admit they got it wrong? Knowing the typical UI designer, I suspect they'll stand by their "we're right and the users are wrong" stance until they've lost every last user.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03 2014, @10:22PM
i agree with this but only to a very slight degree. the new UI of firefox is very similar to chrome's - but not quite as frustrating. hence, i still use firefox. on the other side of the coin, now that i'm over my 'disorientation' period, the new firefox UI really isn't bad.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by monster on Friday July 04 2014, @09:12AM
If I wanted Chrome UI so much, I would have installed Chrome. (Thoughts of a typical user)
Copying good ideas is neat. Destroying your product's essence while doing so not so much.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03 2014, @11:42PM
I'm shocked that IE still has such a presence. I thought it was dead, long ago. More amazing still is the fact that IEs majority share remains true even when all platforms (eg destkops and phones) are counted (ref [arstechnica.com]).