LATEST OS MARKET SHARE
Posted on 09/10/2014 10:24:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 09/10/2014 10:24:38 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Windows 8.1 carved out more of the desktop OS market last month, though its progress remains slow.
For the month of August, Windows 8.1 eked out a 7.09 percent market share based on all the desktop OS traffic seen by Web tracker Net Applications. That number was up slightly from 6.56 percent in July, 6.61 percent in June, and 6.35 percent in May. Still in use among many people, Windows 8 scored 6.28 percent of the market last month.
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I only got 8.1 because windows 7 don’t support the latest cpu
I’ve noticed a lot more Windows 7 computers being advertized. Computer manufacturers are realizing that if they want to move product they need to sell what people want. More importantly, they are realizing what people don’t want.
No more ‘easy transfer’ doesn’t help. It’s no longer ‘easy’.
I noticed that too
I bet their customers were asking for 7
A friend of mine has a prediction: Microsoft will continue its decline and Oracle will buy them within 5 years.
He’s probably right.
This is what happens when you let the MBA crowd run a product company.
RE: A friend of mine has a prediction: Microsoft will continue its decline and Oracle will buy them within 5 years.
Hey, what’s going to happen to SQ Server? I’ve been using it for 5 years.
...and for goodness' sake--find a friend who knows what he's talking about.
I went with 8 to save a few bucks. It has been solid standing up to some games and studio 17 in HD.
I hope to go to 4K soon. I’m anxious to see how much it bogs d9wn.
I just bought a desktop last week.
One of my criteria was that it came with Windows 7.
This was after I was given a demonstration of Windows 8.1.
Not from friend, but by installing windows 7 to pc with cpu/mb changed to latest. I get blue screen and crash regularly and couldn’t get past startup
My two WinXP systems croaked. I had to get a Win7 computer...but two months later and I am still catching up being able to do what I could with the old computer. A lot of my old software doesn’t work.
Probably not a CPU issue, but a UEFI issue.
I changed my cpu intel i7-4790s with z97x-sli mb. Windows 7 didn’t work. Only 8.1 fixed it
It won’t be getting a shove forward from me.I was quite happy with XP for a decade or more.I expect to be happy with 7 for at least as long (at which point I’ll have advanced Alzheimer’s).
Running Windows 8.1 on a Microsoft Surface Tablet PC....FANTASTIC!
Really? Microsoft makes most of its money on other products; not desktops. Servers and server products: System Center, Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, and now cloud services like Azure, Office 365 and Intune are their bread-winners, and they’re not going anywhere but up. Oh, and Xbox is doing great, too.
It is true that Microsoft isn’t competing as well on the consumer side going head-to-head on the smart phone and tablet offerings by Apple and Google, and they should concentrate on their forte.
I love Windows 8.1. I use the client Hyper-V and run several different Linux variants as well as Server 2012.
What also isn’t mentioned in the article is just what the OTHER desktop systems are running... That would mostly be Microsoft Windows, too.
Microsoft was rushing out Windows 9 for 1Q2015 to fix Windows 8’s mistakes (puts back the Start button, etc). Now they are back-patching it into Windows 8.1 Update 3 for 4Q2014 and pushing Windows 9 out to late 2015.
So Windows 8.1 Update 3 will basically be Windows 7 Lite. It’ll still have all the Windows 8 ‘apps’ stuff, but it won’t be so obnoxious about it.
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