XP Loses Ground, Windows 7 Keeps Growing in November Statistics
XP Loses Ground, Windows 7 Keeps Growing in November Statistics
Posted 12/01/2009 at 11:53am
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Need proof that Windows 7 represents a significant improvement over Vista? Just take a peek at the nearest XP users, or maybe we should say former XP user. According to data by web metrics company Net Applications, XP usage dropped in November by 1.45 percent.
Vista's share only dropped by 0.2 percent, which is indicative of a much lower market share altogether. By the end of the month, OS usage numbers sat at 69.03 percent for XP, 18.6 percent for Vista, and 3.98 percent for Windows 7, which was released to the general public on October 22nd. Not a bad start.
Mac OS X usage was also slightly down, dropping 0.16 percent to 5.11 percent. That's the third time this year Mac has given given up market share. Meanwhile, Linux climbed to a 1 percent usage share in November, the highest it's been since July.
What OS are you rocking? Tell us in the comments section below!
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pretard
December 14, 2009 at 7:38am
I have been using Win7 on one gaming rig and XP(Dual Boot Ubuntu) on another. HTPC is still Vista because I dont want to migrate 2TB of movies and 320GB of music, and 40GB of pics and home movies again(Damn you Microsoft Automatic Update). Actual upgrade method is out of the question, alway's. Dell lapy E-1705 still rockin XP/Vista dual boot, but just got my student copy of Win7 Pro and Lapy is gettin pimped.
ClericofAneron
December 08, 2009 at 5:05am
I was a die-hard XP Media Center Edition user. Now, I'm running Win7 Ultimate 64 bit, and when I am on, I can't stop smiling. I recommend the OS to anyone who will listen. It might look a bit like Vista, but I feel it is as user friendly as XP. No repetitive, annoying UAC or DEP. If I am logged in as the Admin, then I don't have to keep proving it to the OS. The absence of that aggrivation alone makes this an infinitely better OS than Vista will ever hope to be.
hagbard
December 04, 2009 at 5:02pm
I have a server running CentOS 5.3, and my main desktop and a laptop run Fedora. The desktop also runs Windows XP for games, and I have a bunch of other PCs running mostly CentOS, but also XP.
Caboose
December 05, 2009 at 1:03pm
Contrary to popular belief, caps lock is NOT cruse control for cool! Makes you look like a damn fool instead...
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
MleB
December 03, 2009 at 5:01am
...on my Asus 1005HA netbook (without issues, thanks for asking) so until such time as a full upgrade to Win7 costs considerably less than 2/3rds the price of the device, it ain't gonna happen.
Till then, I guess I'll just have to put up with better battery life and no hardware, driver or software compatibility issues. I'll manage.
Chatwiththisname
December 02, 2009 at 5:42pm
Running QX9650 (3.0 Ghz Quad), 8 Gigs DDR2 800 Mhz RAM, Two Seagate 500 GB SATA-300. Water Cooling for Processor, 10 x 120mm LCD Fans, Used to have 2x 8800 Ultra's in SLI but one of them shit out on me. Running a RADEO 4850 HD now. not a bad peice
gendoikari1
December 02, 2009 at 4:04pm
I rock Windows 7 64 bit, and Xubuntu 9.10 64 bit on the side.
arkarkwin
December 02, 2009 at 12:53pm
I got an i7 core desktop runing 64 bit window7 professional and AMD laptop with window 7 64bit home dual boot with Ubuntu using Wubu.
pastorbob
December 02, 2009 at 9:57am
On my main home desktop I am dual booting XP/Windows7. Actually I haven't booted into XP for almost a week now. I have been gradually reinstalling my apps in Windows 7 and migrating my files. I am completely satified with Windows 7 overall so XP will disappear witnin the month once I have finished the migration.
Not sure about my wife's system...she is very resistant to change. Though her hardware is more than adequate it will take some convincing to get her to go along with switching to Windows 7.
However, my laptop, fileserver and my office computer at work, are all still strictly XP. Too many hardware limitations on them because they are older systems. As I upgrade the systems I will change them over to Windows 7 but we are talking over the next couple of years. I also have a second desktop system at home that is running Ubuntu 9.10. I like to play with that OS on occasion and the speed is incredible on the old Pentium 4 Prescott system. I first used it to run Ubuntu 6.04 and have upgraded every version since. I don't see that ever changing.
windows7_2009
December 02, 2009 at 9:14am
I am defiantly switching in the long run to Windows 7. I never bothered with crappy Windows Vista, the only time I tried Vista when it was beta and I knew from that point that OS is crap.
My Vote is for Windows 7 32/64 bit
Tekzel
December 02, 2009 at 8:21am
What OS am I rocking? Well, of course it is Windows 7 every where. My desktop, my notebook, my netbook. Windows 7 is the freaking bomb.
xRadeon
December 02, 2009 at 7:45am
I've been running Windows 7 at work and at home ever since it came out on Technet. And I was running the RC before that. I've dropped Windows XP and Vista like Pluto along time ago. And I've told all my friends to move to Windows 7 also.
mesiah
December 02, 2009 at 2:29am
What happened to the other poll showing windows 7 users outnumbering all mac os users? I love how much the numbers very from poll to poll.
mlee19
December 01, 2009 at 10:28pm
Win7 is nice but i still love my win xp Pro x64 bit install. Been the best for gaming for me. I don't think I will ever give it up anytime soon. Almost everything runs and just works!
b3ar
December 01, 2009 at 8:02pm
Running Win7 64-bit and love it...but maybe should have gone for Professional rather than Home Premium, as the virtual XP-mode might ahve been worth it for those few apps that only run in XP (I'm looking at you, ProTools 7.4)
GreenTurtle
December 01, 2009 at 5:04pm
W7 64 Ulitmate and Ubuntu 64 9.10 on my desktop, W7 32 Ultimate and Ubuntu 32 9.10 on my old ass laptop. I've been using W7 Beta,Rc from the start and it has been fantastic from the beginning. Never had a problem.
Oh, and W7 64 Home Premium on my wifes laptop and W7 64 Ultimate on my media center.
DOOMHAMMA
December 01, 2009 at 4:27pm
Been using RC until the release, now I use Windows 7 Professional 64 bit.
You know W7 has won the new OS battle when its adoption rate for Steam users is at 20.59% already. With Microsoft winning the gaming community over, XP will be a thing of the past. When gamers upgrade their PCs, its W7 they will be turning to for completion.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Member2600
December 01, 2009 at 4:19pm
I know this joke and each time I read it in my head I say Two.
DRAGONWEEZEL
December 01, 2009 at 3:19pm
THERE ARE ONLY 11 TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD. Those that think binary jokes are funny, those that don't, and those that don't know binary
Meh, this was supposed to be in reply to "Righteous Fury"
it could be free... but $150 isn't bad for a 3 pack of Win 7.
praetor_alpha
December 01, 2009 at 3:11pm
7 Business on desktop, Xubuntu 9.04 on server and laptop (yeah, i need to update those...)
Might get some Linux VMs on the desktop. I already have an XP vm.
Righteous Fury
December 01, 2009 at 2:53pm
Rockin' XP Pro and Vista Home Premium... and will be for some time as updating all 3 systems to Win 7 will NOT be cheap. Oh well.
Tekzel
December 02, 2009 at 8:26am
Define cheap? Grab one of those family pack upgrades, you can upgrade 3 machines for $149.99. Seems reasonable to me.
lien_meat
December 01, 2009 at 2:15pm
Hardware: Dell Inspiron 1525, 1.6 ghz core2, 2gb ddr2, 160gb HD, intel 965gm (3100) integrated video
Runs dual (sometimes tri) boot win7 ultimate 32bit (msdn) and Ubuntu 9.10 64bit. Sometimes another linux distro accompanies the other OSes for experimentation...but Ubuntu and win7 are the mainstays. I almost always run ubuntu, using win7 only for windows only games that don't work well in linux or wine. I like win7 better than any other windows OS (hate vista which came installed on it, but it didn't run that well for some reason, liked xp), but I prefer both kde4.3 and gnome over window's crappy, relatively unconfigurable desktop...and linux is so damn easy to maintain and administrate once you get it how you want that you really never have to think about it again...it's easier/less annoying than windows once you get used to it...and I grew up a windows user...since win 3.0...
Danielt876
December 01, 2009 at 1:53pm
Been using Ultimate 64-Bit since beta, I upgraded to the RC when it came out, and RTM once the torrent finished downloading (about a week after it came out officially). Shhhh ;-)
huhhuh
December 01, 2009 at 1:40pm
XP - install is only 2 months old.
I had Win7 running since RC hit the net and didn't like it. Yes, it seems snappy but the system itself is as slow as Vista.
My Q6600 runs apps much, much faster with XP loaded on it.
Tekzel
December 02, 2009 at 8:25am
Im sporting a Q6600 with only 4gb of ram and don't see any difference between XP and Windows 7, well, except that XP is dated and sucks, while 7 is awesome in every way.
fusobotic
December 01, 2009 at 1:35pm
My current, outdated, PC is running XP. But I'm throwing together a freakin' awesome new one, that's going to rock a windows 7 32bit OS. I decided to switch to 7 cause it may use more resources than XP, but performance difference isn't that much. Even though the requirements say 1gb ram, that's the MAX amount that it can use, usually it uses around 500 or 750mb. I've heard of people installing it on PCs that don't even meet the recommended requirements and it still works fine.
Caboose
December 01, 2009 at 2:04pm
Drop 32bit like 4th period french and go with 64bit instead! You won't be sorry!
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
1337Goose
December 01, 2009 at 1:11pm
I've got a Ubuntu/Arch/XP triple boot, and on the Desktop it's Windwos 7.
~Goose
Ntldr
December 01, 2009 at 12:53pm
I am rocking out with Windows 7 64bit. Have been ever since beta haven't had a problem.
Caboose
December 01, 2009 at 12:51pm
All the computers in my home are rocking Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit (MSDN), and my laptop is running Ubuntu 9.10 32bit.
I've put all my XP CD's away in storage...
-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-
Alexgtx
August 13, 2010 at 12:20pm
Win 7 is great the only thing that bothers me is that Nvidia didn't make a driver for the Fx series that it's fully compatible with win7 that's why I'm going to stay with Xp until I buy a new pc
Caboose
August 15, 2010 at 10:56am
Or you could, you know, drop nVidia and switch to ATi...
With Vista, I never had any of the issues reported as I'm on the ATi platform, same with any little issues with Windows 7 that all seem to stem from nVidia and their crap!
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