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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: 1) by jbruchon on Friday July 04 2014, @11:22AM

    by jbruchon (4473) on Friday July 04 2014, @11:22AM (#64088) Homepage

    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.

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