According to the latest figures from NetApplications, Windows 8 continues its very slow path to relevance, now controlling 5.4 percent of global market share.
Windows 7 remains king, at 44.49 percent, while Windows XP took 37.19 percent.
The Windows 8.1 developer preview is installed on 0.02 percent of all machines, placing it slightly behind Windows 2000.
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Who's surprised????? You?? Are you all surprised???? Not me.
I love MS........in almost every way but this OS is just needing some serious work. It presents itself as a nightmare way too often and while I LOVE the speed of Win8 and how quick it starts and processes files.......I hate the little nuances like digging to find certain things, and a pain to connect to wireless sometimes as well as other things. I like the START menu but that's about it.
I put this on my badass laptop when MS offered it for 14.95 for the full blown PRO version. I don't hate it anymore as I have acclimated to it but I sure as HELL won't put it on my desktop which is integrated with my home theatre system.
Those bad mouthing Windows 8 do not understand what the rates shown represent. One comment: Shows that no one like windows 8. Really???? Then what does it shows when Windows 8 scores higher than every iteration of Mac and the other variety of desktops are not a blip on the radar. Hate something if you like but figures do not lie. Have a nice day!
Originally posted by drhanaba: Those bad mouthing Windows 8 do not understand what the rates shown represent. One comment: Shows that no one like windows 8. Really???? Then what does it shows when Windows 8 scores higher than every iteration of Mac and the other variety of desktops are not a blip on the radar. Hate something if you like but figures do not lie. Have a nice day!
Just simply means Windows is the most prevalent OS for PC's, that is all. I'd be the first to argue people should first find the software they need, computers are simply a tool for many people to do a given task. To this end and rightfully so, some people need or use different OS's on a given PC/machine architecture, hard to read more into the number than this I'd say.
drhanaba, about 90% of the world's computers run some version of windows. ever since win8 came out, all new brandname computers come with win8 pre-installed. i've upgraded vista computers to xp & i'll probably do the same with win8 to win7. i've only got 2 customers using win8 & everybody else is using mainly win7 or xp with a few for vista.
I hate ms. Greediest company imo. But i like to build my own pcs and their os keeps me in business with a repair side job. I downloaded 8.1 preview. Didnt know you could not uninstall it. After about 3 months with 8 i very happily went back to 7.
