Windows 7 usage jumps 22% after RC delivery

torrentg said:

xan K, I think XP will be on top for years still simply because the general public does not like tinkering with their pcs anywhere close to how lots of us do here.

And businesses hate to change things too.

We'll see, heh heh. :)

thats because a lot of businesses are cheap-asses
e/g H&R Block (they do ppls taxes) still use old dinosaur pcs w/ windows 2000

XP will be aound for a while, though it already lost live support from M$ (dont quote me, but i read that on one of their partner sites)

jimbo45 said:

Hi all
Where do they get these statistics from -- How can they POSSIBLY know what the % usage is.

They never asked ME so that's at least one person they don't have stats for -- and I can think of 100's if not 1000's of others.

And then what about all the "Pirate" copies of the various released of Windows.

Before Windows XP you could provided you had the serial number install Windows on as many computers as you liked (not legally of course) so how can MS possibly know the number of say Windows 2000 users at the moment.


Honestly these stats mean absolutely NOTHING at all.

What they CAN know at any one time is the number of Windows licenses that are currently ACTIVE on their licensing servers -- but even this doesn't tell correctly the number of users

For example I have 2 legally paid for VISTA Ultimate licenses but I haven't currently got them installed on any machine at the moment.

I'd really FIRE any sales director basing management plans on these sorts of stats.

Cheers
jimbo

may be this is the statics of legal copies of windows(xp.vista ,2000) compared with no of official download of Win 7 rc from M$ statics can never be accurate its just approximation to give better idea!!!

when its final and has crack it will jump to 220%

ENZO said:

ehh, im getting W7 period.

Enzo.

Is that a new version?

We have seen some stats from MSFT in the Windows 7 Engineering blog about usage during the beta. MSFT does get realtime telemetry data which tells them exactly how many unique copies of each of their OS's are running. If they release those numbers (and they won't, at least not a comparision to the other OS's) it would be a moving target anyway. The data from the stated service by the OP should be taken with a big lump of salt IMHO. But it is interesting none the less.

Romulinx2 said:

We don't support any hacked/cracked software here.

wow, cant say I've seen that particular arrangement of words .... pretty much anywhere on the internet.....