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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: 4, Interesting) by gman003 on Friday July 04 2014, @12:44AM

    by gman003 (4155) on Friday July 04 2014, @12:44AM (#63902)

    Here, let me save you $50 next time:

    http://classicshell.net/ [classicshell.net]

    Set the start menu back to W7 style (or XP style, or W98 style, each with a fair amount of customizability). Skin it however you want - you want an Aero-skinned W98 menu? I'm pretty sure they have that. Disable hot corners, set it to boot into desktop mode (kind of irrelevant since 8.1 but still there), and set the Windows key to open the menu instead of start screen, and you'll basically never notice Metro even exists. Hell, even if you somehow managed to find a Metro app worth using, you can make an "Apps" submenu, like the Programs submenu, that lists them out the same way so you never have to see the start screen.

    It is very clear to me that there are at least two teams working on Windows - the core team and the UI team. The core team did a smash-up job with W8 - the UI team failed horribly, but they were nice enough to contain their failures to an easily-isolated section. Cut it off and you get a better OS than W7.

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  • (Score: 1) by ah.clem on Friday July 04 2014, @02:00AM

    by ah.clem (4241) on Friday July 04 2014, @02:00AM (#63928)

    http://classicshell.net/ [classicshell.net]

    Thanks for the tip, but I did that on the windows 8.1 box and it was still crap. I sent it back and got the downgrade and life is good again (as much as it can be in windows, but I have a lot of specialized software for Windows, v-synths, DAW, audio massagers, sample libraries, etc.).

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04 2014, @03:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 04 2014, @03:25AM (#63953)

      Renoise ableton and asio4all were my reasons to reinstall windows 7 as well.

      -basecase