It was going to happen and some point.
Net Applications now lists Windows XP with a market share of 49.84 percent, down from 51.13 percent in June.
Windows XP was launched almost 10 years ago, on August 24, 2001 and is still the world's most popular operating system. Windows Vista failed to become a replacement for XP, but Windows 7 is apparently eating away share from XP at an accelerating pace. However, Windows 7 cannot collect all those users that XP and Windows Vista are losing every month: XP and Vista lost a combined 1.57 points of OS market share in July, while Windows 7 gained just 0.74 points and now stands at 27.87 percent. Windows overall dropped to from 88.29 percent to 87.66 percent market share, while Mac OS X climbed from 5.37 percent to 5.59 percent and iOS is now estimated to hold 2.98 percent.
StatCounter, by the way, estimates Windows XP share at 43.89 percent and Windows 7 share at 36.06 percent.
A decrease in Windows XP market share and an increase in Windows 7 is critical for Microsoft to lay the foundation for greater IE9 and IE10 adoption to promote a new HTML5 app model that will arrive with Windows 8 in 2012.
Completely agree aznguy...it'll be a good day when 64 bit is the norm.
How quickly they forget Windows 98, or FAT. XP was a huge leap over the user unfriendly 2000, which was a pimped up NT.
Completely agree aznguy...it'll be a good day when 64 bit is the norm.
Otherwise I'd still be an XP user up to this day. Win8 looks like MS is aiming too much for the touchscreens and XBOX gaming, so I guess I'll give it a pass, and maybe give Ubuntu one more shot. Once popular games make their way on Linux, Windows is doomed.
Because current generation consoles (PS3 and 360) have outdated graphics and because they usually port them to PC. A lot of people still have older video cards that can still pack a punch (relative to these consoles), so why not develop the games, in such a way, as to reach the broadest population as possible? Especially if it could mean more sales. Think about it.
I didn't. I switched from XP to Arch Linux when I first saw how the Windows 7 interface looked (like straight up KDE). Motherboard says it was designed for Windows 7 but works very well on Linux. So I don't care about 7. For the very few Windows-only programs I use (including iTunes for syncing my iPod), I use VirtualBox with TinyXP installed inside a 2 GB .vdi file. Just right for what I need.
No one forces you to buy anything, but let's put it terms of brass tacks shall we?
People invest in a PC which must cost a pretty penny because they are playing Crysis 2 in DX11, so at the very least they have lashed out hundreds on the graphics card alone and the CPU and RAM must be fairly beefy too.
So to balk at $100 on an OS over a 10 year period takes a special kind of scrooge-minded, tight-fisted, penny-pinching, mean-spiritedness that beggars belief.
If you are prepared to spend over $1000 on a PC you can at least get a new OS at least once a decade.
Good riddance.
It would be great since it would be a fair comparason but why not do it the regular Toms (Steve's?) Hardware way - See what car brand is dominant but also add cycles into it especially since people usually own both to skew the results!
How quickly they forget Windows 98, or FAT. XP was a huge leap over the user unfriendly 2000, which was a pimped up NT.
Um ok... When your OS that you are running now no longer supports hardly anything you then are pretty much are forced to upgrade to a newer OS. XP is going the same way. Microsoft is slowly squeezing the life out of it, by cutting off support for it little by little. IE9. Windows Media player 12, Live Messenger 2011 Essentails are just a prime of example of software programs by Microsoft that be supported under XP, but Microsoft said nope if you want those new programs you have to upgrade either Vista or 7 to get those features. And if Vista was a huge sucess like 7 is Microsoft would have started cutting off support for XP a lot sooner.