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Windows 7 powers more than half of all PCs
Windows XP leaks users, who desert to Windows 7 at twice the rate to Windows
8
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
June 02, 2014 07:21 AM ET
Computerworld - As Windows XP continued its decline, users who deserted the
obsolete operating system shifted to Windows 7, not the newer Windows 8,
more circumstantial evidence that commercial customers, not consumers, now
drive PC sales.
Data from analytics vendor Net Applications showed Windows XP dropped one
percentage point in user share last month, ending May with 25.3% of all
desktop and notebook systems. It was the third consecutive month that XP
shed one or more points of user share.
Most of May's lost XP share showed up on Windows 7, which gained eight-
tenths of a point to reach 50.1%, the first time the 2009 OS has reached
that milestone. Meanwhile, Windows 8 grew four-tenths of a percentage point,
ending with a user share of 12.6%.
For the first time, Windows 8.1 accounted for more than half of the combined
user share of it and the original Windows 8.
The rise of Windows 7 had been predicted by researchers who have noted a
temporary boom in personal computer shipments to businesses as they rushed
to throw XP on the ash heap. IDC, for example, has said commercial sales of
PCs have climbed by double digits this year compared to last, but that
consumers sales have sunk by similar rates.
Net Applications' statistics can be interpreted as proof of those trends,
with Windows 7 -- the standard corporate OS now that XP has waned -- on the
upswing at double the rate of Windows 8/8.1 because of the continued slump
in consumer PC purchases. Most consumer-grade personal computers are now
equipped with Windows 8.1.
In two of the last three months, Windows 7's gains have outpaced those of
Windows 8.
The latter also continued to flirt with comparisons to Windows Vista, the
2007 Microsoft failure: At the 19-month mark, Windows 8 was barely ahead of
Vista's share of all PCs running Windows.
Unless consumer PC sales pick up in a big way later this year, as some
forecast or at least hope, or Windows 8 becomes acceptable to businesses,
which virtually no one believes is in the short-term cards, Windows 7 will
continue to gain ground as all traces of XP are slowly scrubbed from
enterprises, a process that will take much of 2014 in the U.S. and longer
elsewhere.
The dominance of Windows 7 -- and its apparent resistance to replacement by
Windows 8 -- will probably mean a repeat in five years of XP's grudging
retirement and a similar scramble near the end of Windows 7's support to
find an alternative. Microsoft has promised to support Windows 7 until mid-
January 2020. Assuming it continues to unveil a new operating system -- as
opposed to interim updates like Windows 8.1 -- every three years, Microsoft
will get two more shots to come up with a suitable substitute for Windows 7.
Windows XP leaks users, who desert to Windows 7 at twice the rate to Windows
8
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
June 02, 2014 07:21 AM ET
Computerworld - As Windows XP continued its decline, users who deserted the
obsolete operating system shifted to Windows 7, not the newer Windows 8,
more circumstantial evidence that commercial customers, not consumers, now
drive PC sales.
Data from analytics vendor Net Applications showed Windows XP dropped one
percentage point in user share last month, ending May with 25.3% of all
desktop and notebook systems. It was the third consecutive month that XP
shed one or more points of user share.
Most of May's lost XP share showed up on Windows 7, which gained eight-
tenths of a point to reach 50.1%, the first time the 2009 OS has reached
that milestone. Meanwhile, Windows 8 grew four-tenths of a percentage point,
ending with a user share of 12.6%.
For the first time, Windows 8.1 accounted for more than half of the combined
user share of it and the original Windows 8.
The rise of Windows 7 had been predicted by researchers who have noted a
temporary boom in personal computer shipments to businesses as they rushed
to throw XP on the ash heap. IDC, for example, has said commercial sales of
PCs have climbed by double digits this year compared to last, but that
consumers sales have sunk by similar rates.
Net Applications' statistics can be interpreted as proof of those trends,
with Windows 7 -- the standard corporate OS now that XP has waned -- on the
upswing at double the rate of Windows 8/8.1 because of the continued slump
in consumer PC purchases. Most consumer-grade personal computers are now
equipped with Windows 8.1.
In two of the last three months, Windows 7's gains have outpaced those of
Windows 8.
The latter also continued to flirt with comparisons to Windows Vista, the
2007 Microsoft failure: At the 19-month mark, Windows 8 was barely ahead of
Vista's share of all PCs running Windows.
Unless consumer PC sales pick up in a big way later this year, as some
forecast or at least hope, or Windows 8 becomes acceptable to businesses,
which virtually no one believes is in the short-term cards, Windows 7 will
continue to gain ground as all traces of XP are slowly scrubbed from
enterprises, a process that will take much of 2014 in the U.S. and longer
elsewhere.
The dominance of Windows 7 -- and its apparent resistance to replacement by
Windows 8 -- will probably mean a repeat in five years of XP's grudging
retirement and a similar scramble near the end of Windows 7's support to
find an alternative. Microsoft has promised to support Windows 7 until mid-
January 2020. Assuming it continues to unveil a new operating system -- as
opposed to interim updates like Windows 8.1 -- every three years, Microsoft
will get two more shots to come up with a suitable substitute for Windows 7.
