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Windows 7 surpasses Mac OS X in market share
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article published on 28 November, 2009
Windows 7 has surpassed the Mac OS X in market share, moving to almost 6 percent in its first month of release. All Mac OS X versions combined have an estimated 5.27 percent market share, according to Net Applications.
"It's safe to say that Windows 7's daily share did peak above Mac's weekly share," said Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president at Net Applications, to PCWorld.
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28. November 2009 @ 15:29 |
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This isn't surprising. MS is the mainstream OS, so eventually its newest release would surpass OSX.
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joe777
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28. November 2009 @ 17:50 |
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They always tend to omit the fact that more than 92.64 of machines sold come pre-installed with windows 7. No wonder they have a monopoly in the OS world. If it was upto joe public to buy and install an OS for their pc then I doubt microshaft would have the monopoly any more. Anyway *nix FTW
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28. November 2009 @ 18:03 |
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They always tend to omit the fact that more than 92.64 of machines sold come pre-installed with windows 7. No wonder they have a monopoly in the OS world. If it was upto joe public to buy and install an OS for their pc then I doubt microshaft would have the monopoly any more. Anyway *nix FTW
still every mac sold includes os10.
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28. November 2009 @ 22:14 |
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They always tend to omit the fact that more than 92.64 of machines sold come pre-installed with windows 7. No wonder they have a monopoly in the OS world. If it was upto joe public to buy and install an OS for their pc then I doubt microshaft would have the monopoly any more. Anyway *nix FTW
still every mac sold includes os10.
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28. November 2009 @ 22:14 |
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^^ yes but every laptop, netbook of any brand have windows preinstalled. Just that without the desktop pc's, is enough to make win the no1 OS in sales.
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28. November 2009 @ 22:32 |
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Originally posted by SDF_GR:
^^ yes but every laptop, netbook of any brand have windows preinstalled. Just that without the desktop pc's, is enough to make win the no1 OS in sales.
Every Apple desktop and laptop comes with OSX preinstalled...so what's the point of your argument?
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28. November 2009 @ 23:26 |
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Why is BS like this considered news?
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28. November 2009 @ 23:56 |
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Originally posted by joe777:
They always tend to omit the fact that more than 92.64 of machines sold come pre-installed with windows 7. No wonder they have a monopoly in the OS world. If it was upto joe public to buy and install an OS for their pc then I doubt microshaft would have the monopoly any more. Anyway *nix FTW
Dream your little dream.. If people are given the choice they still choose Windows because even those consumers that have a system builder build them a PC choose Windows over any *nix version. OEMs offer Windows as the primary choice because that is what people want. Some OEMs offer some of their lines with a linux flavor and they do not sell well.
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29. November 2009 @ 00:31 |
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They always tend to omit the fact that more than 92.64 of machines sold come pre-installed with windows 7. No wonder they have a monopoly in the OS world. If it was upto joe public to buy and install an OS for their pc then I doubt microshaft would have the monopoly any more. Anyway *nix FTW
Dream your little dream.. If people are given the choice they still choose Windows because even those consumers that have a system builder build them a PC choose Windows over any *nix version. OEMs offer Windows as the primary choice because that is what people want. Some OEMs offer some of their lines with a linux flavor and they do not sell well.
*nix is great, but SO much has to be done to get everything running ok (especially on a laptop) that really doesn't make it worthwhile.
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29. November 2009 @ 02:46 |
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^^ yes but every laptop, netbook of any brand have windows preinstalled. Just that without the desktop pc's, is enough to make win the no1 OS in sales.
Every Apple desktop and laptop comes with OSX preinstalled...so what's the point of your argument?
The point of the argument would be that you're rating 1 manufacturer against dozens of others. Dell would suck compared to the rest of the PC makers combined.
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29. November 2009 @ 05:11 |
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^^ yes but every laptop, netbook of any brand have windows preinstalled. Just that without the desktop pc's, is enough to make win the no1 OS in sales.
Every Apple desktop and laptop comes with OSX preinstalled...so what's the point of your argument?
The point of the argument would be that you're rating 1 manufacturer against dozens of others. Dell would suck compared to the rest of the PC makers combined.
Of course. Apple is terrified to release their systems on decent hardware and get some competition going.
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29. November 2009 @ 09:55 |
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^^ yes but every laptop, netbook of any brand have windows preinstalled. Just that without the desktop pc's, is enough to make win the no1 OS in sales.
Every Apple desktop and laptop comes with OSX preinstalled...so what's the point of your argument?
The point of the argument would be that you're rating 1 manufacturer against dozens of others. Dell would suck compared to the rest of the PC makers combined.
Of course. Apple is terrified to release their systems on decent hardware and get some competition going.
As xnonsuchx apple is 1 manufacturer, sony, dell, toshiba, fujitsu, asus, acer, hp, msi, etc and more, except the fact that is 1 vs 100, the 100 realease more models as well and more frequently.
Decent hardware? for gods shake man, do you have any idea what mac is?
2x Intel Quad Core Xeon CPU and 32GB ram? not a decent hardware? lol have you ever seen a mac? just to check the build quality?
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29. November 2009 @ 10:23 |
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non news.. in fact this must take the award for the most non news bloody obvious shill news statement of the year.. nay.. the century.
sorry writer, but there are far more obvious important news stories than this total garbage... or is it becoming policy to shill for monopolies?
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29. November 2009 @ 11:17 |
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Originally posted by SDF_GR:
^^ yes but every laptop, netbook of any brand have windows preinstalled. Just that without the desktop pc's, is enough to make win the no1 OS in sales.
Every Apple desktop and laptop comes with OSX preinstalled...so what's the point of your argument?
The point of the argument would be that you're rating 1 manufacturer against dozens of others. Dell would suck compared to the rest of the PC makers combined.
Of course. Apple is terrified to release their systems on decent hardware and get some competition going.
As xnonsuchx apple is 1 manufacturer, sony, dell, toshiba, fujitsu, asus, acer, hp, msi, etc and more, except the fact that is 1 vs 100, the 100 realease more models as well and more frequently.
Decent hardware? for gods shake man, do you have any idea what mac is?
2x Intel Quad Core Xeon CPU and 32GB ram? not a decent hardware? lol have you ever seen a mac? just to check the build quality?
Decent hardware runs fast and is stable and costs less than 10 grand...... or 1 grand....or 500 bucks....
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29. November 2009 @ 12:32 |
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Originally posted by SDF_GR:
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Decent hardware? for gods shake man, do you have any idea what mac is?
2x Intel Quad Core Xeon CPU and 32GB ram? not a decent hardware? lol have you ever seen a mac? just to check the build quality?
This is another bloody piece of useless news, but just couldn't help myself, and had to respond to some nonsense comment...
What is a Mac, SDF_GR? Why don't you enlighten us.
Correct me if I am wrong, but a Mac is the awesome piece of hardware they use in Star Trek, right?
"2x Intel Quad Core Xeon CPU and 32GB ram-decent hardware...for gods shake man"
Wow, "for god's sake man"???- that must be absolutely amazing...!!!
what is that? Throwing some numbers in there is suppose to impress people? It would, if that were the base model for a Mac, and started somewhere below $1000. You can't be that "limited" and not realize that for less than $3000 you can put all that garbage in a PC. You guys can use whatever you want, Mac, Pc, hell, you can even go back to a Commodore, but all this "Fanboy" attitude makes you look stupid.
And no, I have never seen a Mac. I tried once to sneak onto Enterprise,it was my dream to see a Mac up-close, maybe even to be able to touch it!!!!... but they caught me((((, and put me in the cooler for trespassing...It wasn't pretty, I had to fend off some horny Chewbacca all night...But you have inspired me SDF_GR,the hope still remains, maybe someday my dream will come true and I will be able to at least catch a glimpse of the awesomeness that a Mac is.
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29. November 2009 @ 12:49 |
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Decent hardware? for gods shake man, do you have any idea what mac is?
2x Intel Quad Core Xeon CPU and 32GB ram? not a decent hardware? lol have you ever seen a mac? just to check the build quality?
This is another bloody piece of useless news, but just couldn't help myself, and had to respond to some nonsense comment...
What is a Mac, SDF_GR? Why don't you enlighten us.
Correct me if I am wrong, but a Mac is the awesome piece of hardware they use in Star Trek, right?
"2x Intel Quad Core Xeon CPU and 32GB ram-decent hardware...for gods shake man"
Wow, "for god's sake man"???- that must be absolutely amazing...!!!
what is that? Throwing some numbers in there is suppose to impress people? It would, if that were the base model for a Mac, and started somewhere below $1000. You can't be that "limited" and not realize that for less than $3000 you can put all that garbage in a PC. You guys can use whatever you want, Mac, Pc, hell, you can even go back to a Commodore, but all this "Fanboy" attitude makes you look stupid.
And no, I have never seen a Mac. I tried once to sneak onto Enterprise,it was my dream to see a Mac up-close, maybe even to be able to touch it!!!!... but they caught me((((, and put me in the cooler for trespassing...It wasn't pretty, I had to fend off some horny Chewbacca all night...But you have inspired me SDF_GR,the hope still remains, maybe someday my dream will come true and I will be able to at least catch a glimpse of the awesomeness that a Mac is.
ya but win 7 is limited to 8 or 16GB of ramm.
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29. November 2009 @ 13:00 |
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LOL, you just sound like a bloody politician)))!
Just stating half the truth, so basically you are not lying, you're just not telling the whole truth either.
Maybe Win7 is limited to 8GB or 16GB, if you are talking only about Home editions...
I suppose if you want to teach it to make breakfast, you need at least 32GB of Ram....
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29. November 2009 @ 13:01 |
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They always tend to omit the fact that more than 92.64 of machines sold come pre-installed with windows 7. No wonder they have a monopoly in the OS world. If it was upto joe public to buy and install an OS for their pc then I doubt microshaft would have the monopoly any more. Anyway *nix FTW
Dream your little dream.. If people are given the choice they still choose Windows because even those consumers that have a system builder build them a PC choose Windows over any *nix version. OEMs offer Windows as the primary choice because that is what people want. Some OEMs offer some of their lines with a linux flavor and they do not sell well.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The general public want windows......ha ha ha ha ha ha ha My point my dear fellow is that the general public are so ignorant that they dont know any better, but if they had to pay for an OS then they would buy a blank cd and download *nix for free and install a bullet proof OS on their machine, not a virus ridden OS from microshaft. I have yet to come across any desktop or notebook that doesn't run straight out the box with *nix. I can't say the same about windows.
Dream on if you want to have a solid environment using slick willy's software.
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29. November 2009 @ 13:08 |
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I just can't make it out from your posts,
Are you using a *nix machine, or a Mac?
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joe777
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29. November 2009 @ 14:15 |
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Originally posted by cyprusrom:
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I just can't make it out from your posts,
Are you using a *nix machine, or a Mac?
Lol. Normally I would bite but theres nothing tasty on your the end of your hook.
Its nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. There's my philosophical statement for the day.
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29. November 2009 @ 14:16 |
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In another 2 or 3 years it should overtake XP as the dominant OS. Of course that's what I said about Vista, and I was slightly off in my prediction.
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29. November 2009 @ 15:03 |
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They always tend to omit the fact that more than 92.64 of machines sold come pre-installed with windows 7. No wonder they have a monopoly in the OS world. If it was upto joe public to buy and install an OS for their pc then I doubt microshaft would have the monopoly any more. Anyway *nix FTW
Dream your little dream.. If people are given the choice they still choose Windows because even those consumers that have a system builder build them a PC choose Windows over any *nix version. OEMs offer Windows as the primary choice because that is what people want. Some OEMs offer some of their lines with a linux flavor and they do not sell well.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The general public want windows......ha ha ha ha ha ha ha My point my dear fellow is that the general public are so ignorant that they dont know any better, but if they had to pay for an OS then they would buy a blank cd and download *nix for free and install a bullet proof OS on their machine, not a virus ridden OS from microshaft. I have yet to come across any desktop or notebook that doesn't run straight out the box with *nix. I can't say the same about windows.
Dream on if you want to have a solid environment using slick willy's software.
Yes because Linux being free and being readily available for people to install has worked so well these past many years. You think the general public is ignorant and yet I think it is you that is ignorant in believing that Linux is the answer. The fact that linux has failed so many times to being accepted by the public should be proof enough. It doesn't run all the software people and the businesses of the world need and want should be a sign that linux has some growing up to do. While linux may be a good alternative for some it is a very small group. You are just like every other Linux fanboy that believe just because there are less viruses and malware makes it a more secure OS but the hard truth is no one cares to exploit it and if you practice good security overall Windows is a verys stable and safe operating system. Every piece of software is vulnerable and all that matters is someone to take the time to poke at the holes and since the people that want to exploit the software want to go after and harm more people they go after the popular software be that the operating system or software that runs on it which is why these people go after popular items like flash and quicktime because they know most everybody uses that on some level. The same thing was said about IE and Firefox and yet now firefox is plugging holes and security vulnerabilities all the time as it gains popularity. MacOS has made some ground in popularity and now there is more security risks than there ever was before. So yes I stand behind my statement that you are living a dream and you are in a fantasy world if you believe that people do not want an operating system that is easy to use and runs just about every piece of software on the planet and runs with just about every piece of hardware on the planet. And that my friend is Windows. Windows is secure as you want to make it to be and all you need is good security practices and most of them are low cost or free. Firewall, keep updated, a Anti-Malware suite and stay the heck off of suspicious sites and do not be gullible and click on links blindly. The only people that get infected are the ones that do not take security seriously and no OS is not gonna protect them.
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29. November 2009 @ 15:27 |
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@joe777
I just can't make it out from your posts,
Are you using a *nix machine, or a Mac?
Lol. Normally I would bite but theres nothing tasty on your the end of your hook.
Its nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. There's my philosophical statement for the day.
LOL,Good philosophy, good philosophy joe:))))
What is also important, is what makes one happy.If being thought about as "the nicest" augments one's happiness, should by all means be nice!!
But if you don't give a flying fudgsicle, then niceness doesn't weight that much.
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29. November 2009 @ 15:39 |
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Despite the spin, Windows is pretty reliable and I think most people don't consider the reduction in crashes to be worth the significant increase in price.
I mean, my Vista maybe crashes once a month and when it does it's a Mac style crash where all I have to do is reload the program rather than a XP style crash where the whole system locks up and you have to reboot.
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joe777
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29. November 2009 @ 16:06 |
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@bobiroc. So there are as many security holes in say Gentoo and puppy linux as there is in windows? There is the same amount of flexibility for security in windows compared to *nix? Windows on the server side is as powerful as a *nix based system?
Every windows OS I have ever installed has been bloated and uses far to many resources and of course is fundamentally flawed as far as the kernel is concerned. The are still building off the same NT kernel that was broken all those years ago and won't allow the open source community to fix it for them:P
FYI I have never came across a windows OS that didn't need mobo specific drivers to make it work!!!
Anyway chill Winston. Whatever floats your boat and if you want to spend all your hard earned cash on microshaft products then good for you.
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