The real one-percenters.
Posted on 07/02/2013 12:32:36 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
On the heels of Windows 8.1 announcements, the Windows 8 operating system is just starting to make moves as the new third most popular operating system. Windows 8 had 5.1 percent of all desktop OS web traffic in June, beating Vista for the first time, according to web analytics firm Net Applications. Windows Vista saw a smaller 4.62 percent of traffic that same month. The OS' positions were switched in May when the W8 numbers sat at 4.27 percent, edged out by Vista's 4.51 percent of web traffic. Interestingly, both operating systems gained market share between the months of May and June. A further feather in the cap of Windows 8 is the fact that Microsoft today revealed its Windows Store has now passed 100,000 apps, a feat the company said it was close to last week during Build 2013.
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I scraped Vista of of both my machines and replaced it with XP. MUCH better.
Win 7 is still the best Win OS out there for regular PCs and laptops but Win 8 is very good and will catch on more quickly than some believe. Win 8 is made for touch technology hardware and it shines on those platforms. There has been an uptick in the availability of touch ready desktops and laptops and the ones I’ve tried combine touch screen ease of use along with mouse/mousepad capabilities. Once those systems are the prevalent technology for sale Win 8 will be shining.
Count me among them. I bought 2 new computers because my old ones were going bad. Both had W8. I hate it with a passion.
Yeah..like we will take the experiences of the very few people you personally know, over the scientific data that is compiled from the approximately 160 million unique visits per month from over 40,000 websites, that span the globe that Netmarketshare uses. Applebots are not exactly known for statements that make much of any sense are they?
http://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx
I'll eat brussel sprouts before I eat red beets, but I ain't gonna brag about it when I do.
XP's success is due to Vista being a total failure. Businesses did not upgrade from XP to Vista when they heard how bad is was. Normally business skip a generation and since Vista did not "count", they were waiting on 8. Since MS will soon not support XP, 8 will take off.
Tablets are nice toys, but for serious surfing/computing I’ll take my desktop.
For the most part, I don’t want a touch screen. I want huge monitors, and to sit back from them. My arms just aren’t long enough to reach a monitor that’s 3 feet away from me.
Ummm..you can easily buy Windows 7 PC’s from all the popular electronics stores if you want. You don't gotta buy Windows 8 if you don't want to. As a matter of fact, most corporations are still sticking with Windows 7, with some still in the process of upgrading to Windows 7. No one is forcing anyone to buy Windows 8 PC’s if they don't want to. Windows 8 PC’s are being sold in exactly the same way, Windows 7, Vista and XP PC’s were sold before them, pre-installed on new PC's. Say does Apple/Google sell their laptops with no OS installed on them?
Well, there are plenty of machines out there for you then, without Win 8.
Well, yes they are, especially when having previous versions of Win then being forced to swallow Win 8.......
Yes ... the one I just built, for example ...
I wonder why?.....LOL!
Sort of a contradiction to your previous post to me isn't it?..........
> Someone is still using Vista? Why?
I use Vista on my Virtual PC server. It is better optimized for very large files than Windows 7, and virtual PCs are nothing more than very large files acting like a full up PC. I tried Win 7, but the virtual systems crashed more often than Vista, so I pulled off Win 7 and put Vista back. Win 7 does have a better gui though.
The folks in Redmond will probably be thinking that just 2 years ago, XP had a market share of 48.3%, which is now down 11% to 37.17%, and that there is a huge XP install base to sell Win 7/ Win 8 computers to, especially when XP support stops in 2014. Pure upside.
Corporates always take their time to evaluate a new OS before eventually deploying it..sometimes over years. When did Win 7 come out? Back in 2009.
Sort of a contradiction to your previous post to me isn't it?..........
Nope.
Again, you can buy Windows 7 PC’s from all the leading electronics retailers. I gave you a link before right here, which you of course chose to ignore, only to spew out the same garbage again. Not to mention Applebots are not going to be buying Windows PC’s anyway, let alone being “forced to swallow” Windows 8.
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=laptop+window+7&tag=mh0b-20&index=electronics&hvadid=1692551005&ref=pd_sl_2ufdgd267_b
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