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August 11th, 2009
XP or Vista - Which is more at risk from Windows 7?
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 7:19 am
It’s been around 30 months since Windows Vista hit the General Availability milestone, and in that time the OS has only managed to claw some 18% of the OS market share. Compare that weak market share to the aging Windows XP, which even today commands an impressive 73% market share. With Windows 7 now only a few weeks away from the General Availability milestone, it’s interesting to wonder what effect 7 will have on XP and Vista market share.
According to data collected by NetApplications, Windows 7 had already grabbed a 0.9% market share by the end of July. That’s pretty impressive considering that the OS didn’t hit the RTM milestone until the 22nd of July. To put things into perspective, the beta and RC code for Windows 7 already commands three times the market share that the iPhone does. It’s also rapidly closing up on Mac OS X 10.4 (market share 1.03%), Linux (market share 1.05%) and Mac OS X 10.5 (market share 3.42%). People are interested in Windows 7, and there’s little danger that the OS launch will fizzle as Vista did at launch .
More to read:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5126
XP or Vista - Which is more at risk from Windows 7?
Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 7:19 am
It’s been around 30 months since Windows Vista hit the General Availability milestone, and in that time the OS has only managed to claw some 18% of the OS market share. Compare that weak market share to the aging Windows XP, which even today commands an impressive 73% market share. With Windows 7 now only a few weeks away from the General Availability milestone, it’s interesting to wonder what effect 7 will have on XP and Vista market share.
According to data collected by NetApplications, Windows 7 had already grabbed a 0.9% market share by the end of July. That’s pretty impressive considering that the OS didn’t hit the RTM milestone until the 22nd of July. To put things into perspective, the beta and RC code for Windows 7 already commands three times the market share that the iPhone does. It’s also rapidly closing up on Mac OS X 10.4 (market share 1.03%), Linux (market share 1.05%) and Mac OS X 10.5 (market share 3.42%). People are interested in Windows 7, and there’s little danger that the OS launch will fizzle as Vista did at launch .
More to read:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=5126