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Finally Windows 7 overtakes Windows XP use
REDMOND SOFTWARE firm Microsoft has finally seen use of its Windows 7 operating system (OS) overtake that of its ten year old brother, Windows XP.
Web analytics firm Statcounter revealed the change in usage and explained that globally Windows 7 has a 40.5 per cent market share, Windows XP has 38.5 per cent, and Windows Vista has 11.2 per cent.
"Vista was like the ugly sister that few wanted to dance with," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO, Statcounter, as he announced the changes.
"Despite Microsoft trying to keep it back in the kitchen, [Windows] XP has retained tremendous loyalty over the last decade. However, it looks like the younger Windows 7 is now emerging in the Cinderella role."
The usage charts are not the same across the planet and while Windows 7 has overtaken Windows XP in the US and Europe, the latter is still dominant in Asia, where it has a 55 per cent market share. Windows 7, by comparison, has 36 per cent.
It is ten years since Microsoft released the Windows XP operating system, and in those years Microsoft has tried to tempt users away with not just one, but two major OS releases, neither of which seemed to be able to pull entrenched, and mostly business, users away from its veteran OS.
Microsoft has committed to support the Windows XP OS until 2014. but perhaps only begrudgingly. As recently as this Spring analyst group Forrester reckoned that 60 per cent of PCs were running it, while it remains a prime target for rootkit infections. µ
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XP IS NOT A RESOURCE HOG LIKE MACOSX OR WINDOWS VISTA OR 7.
Windows XP is a 10-year old "brother" not sibling; Vista is an ugly "sister"; Certainly not an article written by a woman, and I am not a woman. 21st century should eradicate such sexist statements. Grow up!
Threepwood, for how much I really do have a soft spot for 2K -- I put off upgrading to XP. But I think that you could sub in NT4 for 2K in your post and you'd still be right. It could be the basis of a powerful corporate OS, and it'd be really zippy on even old hardware. I sailed on my dual P166 and early Pentium IIs. It has severely limited DX support, but that really isn't all that important.
'Longhorn' wasn't cancelled. It was the codename for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008...
I'll bet 80% of the corporate users would easily do with Win2K and Office 2000 (or even Office 97).
Okay, not /much/ more evil, but adds some tracking to /a lot/. Besides, just the existence of W7 shows their evil: after having to cancel the Longhorn project, M$ flailed around with cosmetic changes to the XP UI, then had the chutzpad to sell the wretched mess, making all sorts of problems with a new driver model too. W7 is what Vista should have been, not much more than Vista SP1 -- though still just cosmetics on XP -- and now M$ /again/ had the chutzpah to charge for it. But I've quit having sympathy for M$ buyers: they pay dear for crapware and never learn.
Fortunately, we don't have those rootkit problems like any version of MS Windows does. Instead of constant reimages/reinstalls, we simply get more work done, and our company makes more money...thus helping to ensure our continued employment. :-) It's a win-win for everybody but Microsoft.
Windows 7 search feature alone makes it better than XP. Natively it's touch pad ready as well
Over bloated clunky and slow crap. Sorry not to offend anyone but I still MS with all it's money and tech people could do so much better.
And since I am pretty much forced to buy it unless I build my own or buy a mac I am still not even close to happy with it.