Forget XP and Vista, Windows 7 Adoption through the Roof

Consumers and business customers are moving past Windows XP and Windows Vista, with Microsoft noting that Windows 7’s adoption rate is through the roof.

The Redmond company even has the numbers to prove it, with Rich Reynolds, general manager of Windows Commercial Product Marketing at Microsoft underpinning the fact that 240 million Windows 7 licenses have already been sold to date.

But there are additional statistics coming from third-party sources, all illustrative of a consensus, the most successful operating system in history continues to sell like hot cake.

Net Applications is crediting Windows 7 with a market share of 18.33% at the end of October 2010, with XP having dropped under the 60% mark to 58.92%, and Vista down to 12.93%.

It is clear that end users are dumping XP and Vista and upgrading to Windows 7. And Microsoft expects this trend to continue in 2011, especially considering the increase in the number of PC units for next year.

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1. Windows XP_____58,92%
2. Windows 7______18,33% ->
3. Windows Vista__12,93%
4. Mac OS X 10.6___2,80%
5. Mac OS X 10.5___1,61%
6. Java ME_________0,92%
7. Linux___________0,86%
8. iPhone__________0,80%
9. Mac OS X 10.4___0,48%
10. Windows 2000____0,39%
11. Windows NT______0,36%

whs said:

Question is what the commercial users will do. They are often stuck with their applications. The compatibility mode may help, but that may be not the way the want to operate.

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