Windows 7 Now Ahead Of Vista? Probably Not

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It’s a big and bold claim to make, but Janco Assocoiates seem to be willing to stick there neck out and claim that Windows 7 after just 7 months has overtaken Windows Vista in terms of market share. The managing consulting firm has released figures regarding Browser and Operating Systems Market Share.
According to Janco, Windows 7 now holds an impressive 14.8% of the OS Market Share, over taking Windows Vista which they say holds 12.6% of the market.
Janco CEO Victor Janulaitis had this to say

“There are now more users of Windows 7 than Vista. That is a major factor in their improved record earnings. The last OS that was accepted as quickly in the market was XP. Vista’s market share has peaked and is in the process of being decommissioned in most enterprises. The last six months have been a mixed bag for Microsoft. While they have good news on the OS front, their browser market share has fallen to the level that it was in 1998.”
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However other Web Analytic firms as well as myself aren’t so convinced. For a start Janco only focuses on the corporate segment of the U.S. market. Straight away that affects the results, and Net Applications, one of the most reliable sources for market share statistics pegged Windows 7’s usage share during April at just 11.7%, under Vista’s 15.6%.
However, Janco may just be giving us a look into the future, while their stats are a bit optimistic for the moment, by the end of June they could be true.
If we look back at the rate of growth since Windows 7 was released, it looks set to over take Windows Vista by the end of June.
Of course the old war horse that is Windows XP is still holding strong with an impressive 63.4% of the market, and while it is now in “extended support” it will still continue to receive security updates until 2014, which makes it the longest supported OS ever produced by Microsoft.
Windows 7 has got off to a flying start, but to overtake Windows Vista at this stage is a bit optimistic,
What do you think? Do you believe Janco’s figures or do you think Windows 7 still has a bit to go until it overtakes Vista?
Let us know in the comments


Source: NetApplications

 

[w7101]

I'm not sure about "Market share" ...but wds7 is ....will ..definately kill wds "suck" vista any time ...if you ask me ...

 

[None Spac Wilko]

Well I havn't personal use vista but from what I have herd about it is not that good, so yer wds 7 will kill vista

 

[SIW2]

LOL.

Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

Vista is a great o/s.

If anybody says otherwise, it is hard to trust their judgemnet.

Of course 7 will sell by default - when people buy a new pc it comes with 7 on it.

I don't think you can buy a new pc with Vista on it , or XP for that matter ( at least not easily ).

 

[severedsolo]

Vista is still readily available from quite a few sources, as is XP, alot of smaller PC shops give you the option of which one you want, agree with you partially SIW2 about Vista, I cant say its great (and yes i did use it, pretty much from day 1) but after they ironed out the initial kinks it was alright, doesnt hold a candle to windows 7 of course (although to be fair, i actually preferred Vista over XP)

 

[motc7]

LOL.

Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

Vista is a great o/s.

If anybody says otherwise, it is hard to trust their judgemnet.

You cannot be serious? Vista, while aesthetically pleasing, functionality wise was terrible, not to mention compatibility issues run a muck.

 

[billberry12]

I went from XP to 7 a few months ago, after completely skipping over Vista. Windows 7 is a great update from XP. I am very happy with it. I went back to XP for about a month, thinking I didn't want 7, but I missed 7, so now I am back for good, and don't plan on looking back at at XP on any of my systems at all. I have had zero issues with 7.

 

[techues]

I went from XP to 7 a few months ago, after completely skipping over Vista. Windows 7 is a great update from XP. I am very happy with it. I went back to XP for about a month, thinking I didn't want 7, but I missed 7, so now I am back for good, and don't plan on looking back at at XP on any of my systems at all. I have had zero issues with 7.

I too just gsot Win 7 on my new tower. Although faster and with some enhancements I did have no porblem with XP. They seem to have over thought things. My biggest issue is getting drivers to run what ran fine on XP and the window automatically hides when I go to my home page. A real pain!

 

[Rhammstein]

I read on Engadget that Windows 7 had already more market share than Vista, and the 3 tracked versions of OSX, combined... It seems like a reliable source, and I believe it.

Also a source 'not' affiliated with Microsoft showed that an incredibly high amount of crashes, for Vista, from day one through some time through '08, sorry don't have the dates, were not caused by Vista. Nvidia caused over 30% of crashes, ATI 18%, and so on. The "market" wasn't ready for it. Sure Vista had a few issues, but the majority of problems were software developers, hardware too, not getting onboard and making their software/hardware function on Vista, simple as that. I used Vista from day one, loved it, I hated the holes in XP, and the malware, etc etc. Had no issues except I missed hardware accelerated sound, and being able to use 3rd party wireless software properly. Other than that it turned into a very solid OS.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/windows-7-way-hotter-than-vista-off-the-line-now-more-popular-t/
An old security report, very interesting back then: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/22/report-vista-more-secure-than-os-x-and-linux/
and http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/microsoft-vista-has-fewer-first-year-vulnerabilities-than-any-m/

Windows 7 is Vista 2, and is what Vista should have been.

I'll try to find more sources, one source doesn't sit well with most, but I very much like Engadget, and they're pro-Apple...so... Seems transparent to me at least.

 

[Tarka Dal]

Unless!

Unless there is real advancement and 7 becomes dated I am never going to change from it. It's pretty damn good! And, so was Vista!

 

[johnwillyums]

I agree with SIW2, Vista x64 is a great operating system.
I went straight from XP x64 to Vista x64 and immediately noticed how much better it was. I was amazed to read the torrent of complaints about it.
I had no compatibility issues at all and it only crashed once or twice, in the early days, due to Nvidia drivers.
Once that had been sorted out I never had another crash in Vista.
I've been using W7 since the first beta release and I agree it's great but it's only Vista lite really. I've yet to have W7 crash on me.

Let's not forget how crap XP was on release. After 2 service packs it got a lot faster but was still clunky compared to what has followed.

I'm thinking about a triple boot with Ubuntu but I hear the x64 version is unstable. Pity.

 

[None Spac Wilko]

LOL.

Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

Vista is a great o/s.

If anybody says otherwise, it is hard to trust their judgemnet.

Of course 7 will sell by default - when people buy a new pc it comes with 7 on it.

I don't think you can buy a new pc with Vista on it , or XP for that matter ( at least not easily ).

Some netbooks come with Xp, as mine did, and mine came out last year.

 

[antharr]

I agree with SIW2, Vista x64 is a great operating system.
I went straight from XP x64 to Vista x64 and immediately noticed how much better it was. I was amazed to read the torrent of complaints about it.
I had no compatibility issues at all and it only crashed once or twice, in the early days, due to Nvidia drivers.
Once that had been sorted out I never had another crash in Vista.
I've been using W7 since the first beta release and I agree it's great but it's only Vista lite really. I've yet to have W7 crash on me.

Let's not forget how crap XP was on release. After 2 service packs it got a lot faster but was still clunky compared to what has followed.

I'm thinking about a triple boot with Ubuntu but I hear the x64 version is unstable. Pity.

This is not the same experience that a large percentage of Vista adopters had. Vista on release was an absolute train wreck considering it was supposed to be a final release. It was more of a beta version of 7. Considering it did improve tremendously with the service packs and some tweaking. However, the normal user should not be a beta tester and should not have to know how to tweak an OS to get it to function properly. You can say that some machines didn't have the specs to run Vista but I see 7 running on those same machines with no issues.

I agree that Vista was a pretty good OS when things got worked out but doesn't that make a properly patched and tweaked Vista closer to 7. Microsoft used the end user as a beta tester.

 

[severedsolo]

I agree with SIW2, Vista x64 is a great operating system.
I went straight from XP x64 to Vista x64 and immediately noticed how much better it was. I was amazed to read the torrent of complaints about it.
I had no compatibility issues at all and it only crashed once or twice, in the early days, due to Nvidia drivers.
Once that had been sorted out I never had another crash in Vista.
I've been using W7 since the first beta release and I agree it's great but it's only Vista lite really. I've yet to have W7 crash on me.

Let's not forget how crap XP was on release. After 2 service packs it got a lot faster but was still clunky compared to what has followed.

I'm thinking about a triple boot with Ubuntu but I hear the x64 version is unstable. Pity.

This is not the same experience that a large percentage of Vista adopters had. Vista on release was an absolute train wreck considering it was supposed to be a final release. It was more of a beta version of 7. Considering it did improve tremendously with the service packs and some tweaking. However, the normal user should not be a beta tester and should not have to know how to tweak an OS to get it to function properly. You can say that some machines didn't have the specs to run Vista but I see 7 running on those same machines with no issues.

I agree that Vista was a pretty good OS when things got worked out but doesn't that make a properly patched and tweaked Vista closer to 7. Microsoft used the end user as a beta tester.

the Vista Fiasco, was NOT microsofts fault, the developers and manufacturors had the code for nigh on a year before release, they sat on their hands and did nothing about it, THATS why Vista flopped so abysmally at release

 

[Ryan2320]

I agree with severedsolo, It would be the Manufactures fault, Not Microsoft the hardware just wasn't there yet...When I purchased Vista it was a year after the release and no problems I really like it....

 

[KazeNoKoe23]

LOL.

Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

Vista is a great o/s.

If anybody says otherwise, it is hard to trust their judgemnet.

You cannot be serious? Vista, while aesthetically pleasing, functionality wise was terrible, not to mention compatibility issues run a muck.

This was only true for a few months after it launched. Functionality and compatibility issues were greatly resolved rather quickly. By the time SP1 rolled around, those problems were about 99% gone.

 

[pasquanel]

I agree with SIW2, Vista x64 is a great operating system.
I went straight from XP x64 to Vista x64 and immediately noticed how much better it was. I was amazed to read the torrent of complaints about it.
I had no compatibility issues at all and it only crashed once or twice, in the early days, due to Nvidia drivers.
Once that had been sorted out I never had another crash in Vista.
I've been using W7 since the first beta release and I agree it's great but it's only Vista lite really. I've yet to have W7 crash on me.

Let's not forget how crap XP was on release. After 2 service packs it got a lot faster but was still clunky compared to what has followed.

I'm thinking about a triple boot with Ubuntu but I hear the x64 version is unstable. Pity.

My experience was similar to yours Vista 64 bit was very good however Win 7
64 is better

 

[Wii Master 64]

I'm skeptical about that article saying that 7 beat Vista, it hasn't been long enough to pass it up.

 

[antharr]

LOL.

Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see.

Vista is a great o/s.

If anybody says otherwise, it is hard to trust their judgemnet.

You cannot be serious? Vista, while aesthetically pleasing, functionality wise was terrible, not to mention compatibility issues run a muck.

This was only true for a few months after it launched. Functionality and compatibility issues were greatly resolved rather quickly. By the time SP1 rolled around, those problems were about 99% gone.

It is rather pointless to argue the fact now anyways. I think we can all agree that 7 is pretty awesome.

 

[johnwillyums]

agreed