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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03 2014, @11:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 03 2014, @11:57PM (#63885)

    At his FOSS advocacy blog, MrPogson likes to say that webstats are junk for actual numbers but are useful for *trends*.
    ISTM that if you can't trust one, how can the other not be junk?
    ...certainly in the short term.

    When I see a curve that looks like a bow saw blade, [span-trade.co.uk] I think **low sample rate**.
    As has been said multiple times here, when the "change" is smaller than the margin of error, what you have is crap.

    There's a set of webstats that has higher gross numbers, [wikimedia.org] but even that is of questionable utility.
    They do NOT record IP address, but rather page hits.
    People have noted that with pages being less likely to be cached on e.g. handheld thingies, pages will have to be loaded again with e.g. use of the Back button.

    -- gewg_