Windows 7 overtakes Windows Vista in market share

[JMH]

Last month, Windows 7 passed Windows Vista in market share, according to Netmarketshare.com. One year after Windows 7 hit RTM and nine months after it was released, Microsoft's newest OS managed to acquire more users than its predecessor. The operating system reached the 10 percent market share mark four months ago, and just last week Microsoft announced it had sold 175 million licenses so far.


If we take a look at the last 12 months, it's very clear that Windows 7 is surging forward. Meanwhile, Windows Vista has lost about four and a half percent in the last year, while Windows XP has lost almost 10 percent. Mac OS, meanwhile, has gained almost a fifth of a percent and Linux last month lost its recent gains.

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Windows 7 overtakes Windows Vista in market share

 

[BCXtreme]

Wahoooo! Finally! Next target: Windows XP!

:devil2:

 

[Legaia]

Wahoooo! Finally! Next target: Windows XP!

:devil2:

That will take a while but yeah. Thing Windows 7 will get the next XP actually since we still dont have SP2 out yet and that will do alots to the market since then alots of bugs and compatible modes most likley will be sorted aswell.

Unless MS comes out with a new OS in the next year (would be stupid thought).

 

[BCXtreme]

Wahoooo! Finally! Next target: Windows XP!

:devil2:

That will take a while but yeah. Thing Windows 7 will get the next XP actually since we still dont have SP2 out yet and that will do alots to the market since then alots of bugs and compatible modes most likley will be sorted aswell.

Unless MS comes out with a new OS in the next year (would be stupid thought).

AFAIK, there are no outstanding bugs in Windows 7. A lot of businesses do wait for the first SP before switching to a new OS, so that should give it a speed boost.

Between Windows 7 and Windows 8 (due out 2012 I believe), XP's market share needs to be overcome so that we can move on to newer and better tech, and stop having to fuss over compatibility with a 9-year-old OS.

 

[Layback Bear]

I never understood why any body used Vista. With all the problems I read about Vista I jumped over it and went to Windows 7. IMHO M/S will not release Windows 8 as long as the sales of Windows 7 is doing so good. There will also have to be a big jump from after market program companies to get off there dead aaases and get going on 64 bit. IMHO Windows 8 will be on the most part 64 bit. I will bet there is a 128 bit system locked in a safe at M/S just waiting for the proper market timing. XP no longer brings M/S the large sums of money it use to and will go away sooner than some think. There for Windows 7 will get more market share big time. Microsoft leads and others follow. PS. I don't have any investment in or work for Microsoft but wish I did.

 

[JMH]

I never understood why any body used Vista. With all the problems I read about Vista I jumped over it and went to Windows 7. Microsoft

IMHO Vista was / is a very good OS. Don't believe all you read. There are lots of people out there who purchased Vista on a new computer with the recommended specs who have never had any problems.
Bad news is always newsworthy.......

My Vista Ultimate laptop is still my "work horse." My Win7 Ultimate currently languishes. Yes I know that will change.......but I do love my Vista OS.
In my experience Vista's most virulent critics are those who NEVER used it.

 

[DeaconFrost]

That graph looks like it was made by a kindergartner with some crayons.

 

[BCXtreme]

I never understood why any body used Vista. With all the problems I read about Vista I jumped over it and went to Windows 7. Microsoft

IMHO Vista was / is a very good OS. Don't believe all you read. There are lots of people out there who purchased Vista on a new computer with the recommended specs who have never had any problems.
Bad news is always newsworthy.......

My Vista Ultimate laptop is still my "work horse." My Win7 Ultimate currently languishes. Yes I know that will change.......but I do love my Vista OS.
In my experience Vista's most virulent critics are those who NEVER used it.

Very true! Those who've told me over the years that Vista was trash, were either XP users or Mac users that had never even seen Vista in action.

 

[WindowsStar]

I never understood why any body used Vista. With all the problems I read about Vista I jumped over it and went to Windows 7. Microsoft

IMHO Vista was / is a very good OS. Don't believe all you read. There are lots of people out there who purchased Vista on a new computer with the recommended specs who have never had any problems.
Bad news is always newsworthy.......

I agree with you JMH, however I had bad experiences with Vista. I bought Vista and never got it working on my 2 Dell computers. Dell certified them Vista Ready. My mother bought a laptop with Vista and has had nothing but problems. (To be upgraded this month).

I went back to Windows XP on my Dell machines after fighting with Vista for 9 months. I then went from XP to 7 and I have not had any issues. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Dave76]

I never understood why any body used Vista. With all the problems I read about Vista I jumped over it and went to Windows 7.

I never understood why any body would bash a perfectly Good OS, that they themselves have never tried.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Vista. I used it for years and never had any serious issues.

Many people were trying to run it on computers that could barely run XP.

IMHO Vista was / is a very good OS. Don't believe all you read. There are lots of people out there who purchased Vista on a new computer with the recommended specs who have never had any problems.
Bad news is always newsworthy.......

My Vista Ultimate laptop is still my "work horse." My Win7 Ultimate currently languishes. Yes I know that will change.......but I do love my Vista OS.
In my experience Vista's most virulent critics are those who NEVER used it.

Well said and very true...

Very true! Those who've told me over the years that Vista was trash, were either XP users or Mac users that had never even seen Vista in action.

I've experienced the same scenario.
Most people can't tell you why they don't like vista, except someone said it wasn't good.

I agree with you JMH, however I had bad experiences with Vista. I bought Vista and never got it working on my 2 Dell computers. Dell certified them Vista Ready. My mother bought a laptop with Vista and has had nothing but problems. (To be upgraded this month).

I went back to Windows XP on my Dell machines after fighting with Vista for 9 months. I then went from XP to 7 and I have not had any issues. Just my 2 cents.

What were the bad experiences?

Must have been before you found Windows Vista Forums

 

[jimbo45]

Hi there
I DID try Vista and it really ran like a dog so I switched back to XP for a while until W7 came out and went straight to W7.

OK the LATER SP versions of VISTA were probably better the poor hapless souls who had the operating system forceably pre-installed on less than adequate hardware certainly DID hae a point in saying the OS was next to useless on these older machines.

W7 is the product VISTA should have been -- maybe it was just corporate greed or bad management decisisons getting a product out of the door WAY BEFORE it's time - especially considering the hardware that was in use at the original time of VISTA's release.

Of course by the time the service packs were released some hardware had improved considerably so VISTA could run almost passably -- however thats history as W7 is better every which way you care to look at it.

I just wondered why it's taken so long to overtake VISTA.

It will still be a long while before XP is out of the picture as there are millions of perfectly satisfactorily running machines out there a lot with some really old peripherals and other legacy hardware -- where many of the original manufactureres don't exist anymore so driver updates won't appear. These machines will be used until the relevant hardware no lomger functions.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[marsmimar]

Another 2 cents worth ... used Vista Ultimate on a work computer. It worked as well as could be expected. Comparing it to a companion XP Pro computer that performed flawlessly, Vista was also flawless. Maybe because our IT folks didn't scrimp on the hardware. The Vista machine had way more than Microsoft's minimum recommended specs for CPU, RAM, etc. We also had a few machines that were still running Windows 2000 w/SP4. And they were still going strong. I guess like all things beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[WindowsStar]

I agree with you JMH, however I had bad experiences with Vista. I bought Vista and never got it working on my 2 Dell computers. Dell certified them Vista Ready. My mother bought a laptop with Vista and has had nothing but problems. (To be upgraded this month).

I went back to Windows XP on my Dell machines after fighting with Vista for 9 months. I then went from XP to 7 and I have not had any issues. Just my 2 cents.

What were the bad experiences?

Must have been before you found Windows Vista Forums

Way before I found the Vista Forums, I really wish I had found these Forums before I gave up on Vista, but that is water under the bridge.

 

[KazeNoKoe23]

Like others have said, there's absolutely nothing wrong with Vista. I'm glad 7's market share is growing as much as it is, but that shouldn't be taken as evidence of Vista being a poor operating system, because it isn't. If we didn't have Vista, we wouldn't have 7 as we know it.

 

[electrotune1200]

Pardon me if I'm wrong here...

But the percentages on the graph don't seem to be adding up. Something just doesn't seem right. :huh:

 

[brummyfan]

Pardon me if I'm wrong here...

But the percentages on the graph don't seem to be adding up. Something just doesn't seem right. :huh:

Yes, continuous thick line for W7(rising) and the dot line for Vista.
I agree with Jan on this, Vista is a very good OS and I do not see any urgent need to switch to W7 though I have nothing against it at all.

 

[smarteyeball]

In my experience Vista's most virulent critics are those who NEVER used it.

+ over 9000

 

[madtownidiot]

Most of the people I know hated vista 9 months after it was released but mainly because it was usually installed on hardware that could barely run it.

 

[periboob]

Is there a list somewhere of the improvements of W7 over Vista? Other than the fact that "more people like Windows 7", I just cant see it. At the same stage of development, it works better over all, but largely because lots of the incompatibilities with other HW and SW vendors has had a few years to get worked out. But what are the improvements INISDE WINDOWS that you like? Search? missing Quick Launch? a ton of unnecessary and irritating changes in Windows Explorer? If I had a choice, I would go back to Vista. Maybe Microsoft hired Karl Rove to help out with W7.

 

[BCXtreme]

Is there a list somewhere of the improvements of W7 over Vista? Other than the fact that "more people like Windows 7", I just cant see it. At the same stage of development, it works better over all, but largely because lots of the incompatibilities with other HW and SW vendors has had a few years to get worked out. But what are the improvements INISDE WINDOWS that you like? Search? missing Quick Launch? a ton of unnecessary and irritating changes in Windows Explorer? If I had a choice, I would go back to Vista. Maybe Microsoft hired Karl Rove to help out with W7.

I'm not sure why you would post that kind of statement on what is basically a Windows 7 fan site, unless you're just trolling.

Windows 7 is more stable than Vista. It contains thousands of optimizations for the user experiences (changes in Explorer "unnecessary and irritating"? "Open in new window" is a life-saver). It greatly improves the Aero interface, giving a smoother more realistic look. For most people, it's faster. It's like the difference between a finely-crafted sword and a club.

I'm not sure why you can't go back to Vista, I'm guessing you're using Windows in a corporate environment, or in some other form where you don't have control of the software. Several people I know of have reverted to Vista; all have returned to Win 7 in short order.