Windows 7 not as popular as I thought...

stpbby said:

But if only it was OSX.....ahhh... OSX what a great OS, it always works, its easy to use, and its based off a 'nix kernel.

I'm sorry, OS X "always works"? Not in my very limited experience working with it. Give me Windows 7 x64 any day of the week, I've only gotten three/four one-time BSODs in 18 months, and that's split across two PCs. I have a crash maybe once a month, usually because I did something stupid. This will sound like a cliche, but Windows 7 FTW!

And I have no doubt that Windows 7 will come to top both Vista and XP, the only reason it hasn't already is because most people do not upgrade their OSes, they just use whatever their PC came with until they get a new PC.

You can test-drive Win7 here if you wanna see what all the fuss is about before putting down money for the OS: Windows for Small and Midsize Business: Windows 7 Professional Test Drive

There is also a 90day trial for the enterprise version for IT pros:
Windows 7 Enterprise | Trial, Evaluation, Test, Download


And info on differences between XP, Vista, and Win7: Windows 7: Compare Windows 7 to Windows XP and Windows Vista

BCXtreme said:

stpbby said:

But if only it was OSX.....ahhh... OSX what a great OS, it always works, its easy to use, and its based off a 'nix kernel.

I'm sorry, OS X "always works"? Not in my very limited experience working with it. Give me Windows 7 x64 any day of the week, I've only gotten three/four one-time BSODs in 18 months, and that's split across two PCs. I have a crash maybe once a month, usually because I did something stupid. This will sound like a cliche, but Windows 7 FTW!

And I have no doubt that Windows 7 will come to top both Vista and XP, the only reason it hasn't already is because most people do not upgrade their OSes, they just use whatever their PC came with until they get a new PC.

3 years using OSX and maybe a 3 -4 crashes... and this was an issue with Azuerus/Vuze two years ago. Reboots only on certain updates, otherwise the computer never gets turned off, only goes into sleep mode. My windows 7 box on the other hand has to reboot regularly. a few crashes in 4 months, but not many. Definitely an improvement over the past versions of Windows.

As a user of both OS's, my opinion is that OSX is far superior to any version of Windows. But then again, I do understand that Windows has to provide support for ALOT of different kinds of hardware vendors.

Remember that many consumers simply use what their computers came with. So, those who bought XP or Vista boxes in the last 10 years are of course going to be on that. Many won't move to 7 until they buy a new computer and with the market being slow and such...many aren't upgrading their computers right now.

Yeah, i think manies that got XP and Vista will soon upgrade their computers to a new one and huge corporations starting to think swapping their OS...give it a year or so......

sygnus21 said:

Jugador said:

Thanks for the link, and good points. Sorry, I didn't make myself more clear. Of course, I realize that Win7 is new, and hasn't had time to overtake the other OS's, and I have no doubt it will. My point was that I was surprised by the current numbers. From what I had been hearing, hardly anyone was using Vista, and XP was quickly being replaced by Win7.

Maybe, I too, was getting my info from a gaming community.

Yeah I’ll bet that if you broke those numbers down by groups you'd see some interesting things as to what group uses which OS, i.e. enthusiasts vs. non-enthusiasts. Looking at the steam numbers, things look a little different then the numbers posted in the original post.

At any rate, it’s not that 7 isn’t popular, it’s that it hasn’t been around as long as XP. Thus the comparisons aren’t fair at this point in time.

A better comparison would be how are sales between the two at a given period (First year release sales vs. XP’s first year release sales).

That would be the only really fair comparison.

BCXtreme said:

And I have no doubt that Windows 7 will come to top both Vista and XP, the only reason it hasn't already is because most people do not upgrade their OSes, they just use whatever their PC came with until they get a new PC.

I'm not sure that 7 will top XP. Reason: MS wants to release another OS in 3 years time. So, some may simply skip right over 7 and onto the next thing.