At the end of September 2009, with essentially the same time remaining before its launch, Windows 7 accounted for 1.64% of all Windows PCs, or 164 out of 10,000: That's five times that of Windows 8 at its T-minus-one-month milestone.
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At the end of September 2009, with essentially the same time remaining before its launch, Windows 7 accounted for 1.64% of all Windows PCs, or 164 out of 10,000: That's five times that of Windows 8 at its T-minus-one-month milestone.
Thanks, Grant.
Well, out of the gate -> We had loser Vista before 7 with a little better economic time, so I'm sure a lot of users were looking for better. Now we have super 7 in worse economic times, so I think perhaps people aren't willing to change just yet.
8 will be slow out of the gate as I've stated in other threads. Most units will be on hybrids, lappys, and the like preinstalled. They way I read it is that a lot of enterprise still runs Xp. They will most likely upgrade to 7, which will be around a while.
I also have a hunch OEMs will start selling PCs with touch screens.
There have been several articles pointing out that less people are using W8 compared to W7 at the same stage of its release cycle.
According to NetMarketShare:
- Windows 7 had a 1% market share at the 1st of September 2009.
- Windows 8 has a 0.25% market share (currently)
It's now the 4th most widely used Windows OS (according to NetMarketShare).
Market share for mobile, browsers, operating systems and search engines | NetMarketShare
Operating system market share
Hi there
Most "Traditional Laptop" users won't have anything to do with an "App Store".
Ms has made IMO a Monumental Bo - Bo in failing to recognize that a lot of traditional Desktop users still want a Desktop OS -- we don't need 4793 or even more tiles with a horizontal 3 KM left scroll to launch an application or even find it.
You can do a certain amount of optimisation or re-arranging of the tiles -- but nobody has come up with a decent way of launching ap[plications that have a lod of sub menus and sub sub menus. All these are displayed as individual tiles -- and before long you could have maybe 4,000 tiles -- extreme case I know but not impossible -- and just imagine the hideous amount of scrolling you have to do to launch an application.
Bad Call Ms -- You have to decide wh
ether Windows will remain a desktop OS or a Mobile application -- and until this is sorted out any version of Windows later than W7 will have significant problems in gaining public acceptance.
Cheers
jimbo
Ms has made IMO a Monumental Bo - Bo in failing to recognize that a lot of traditional Desktop users still want a Desktop OS -- we don't need 4793 or even more tiles with a horizontal 3 KM left scroll to launch an application or even find it.
Bad Call Ms -- You have to decide whether Windows will remain a desktop OS or a Mobile application -- and until this is sorted out any version of Windows later than W7 will have significant problems in gaining public acceptance.
Cheers
jimbo
Hi there
Most "Traditional Laptop" users won't have anything to do with an "App Store".
Ms has made IMO a Monumental Bo - Bo in failing to recognize that a lot of traditional Desktop users still want a Desktop OS -- we don't need 4793 or even more tiles with a horizontal 3 KM left scroll to launch an application or even find it.
You can do a certain amount of optimisation or re-arranging of the tiles -- but nobody has come up with a decent way of launching applications that have a load of sub menus and sub sub menus. All these are displayed as individual tiles -- and before long you could have maybe 4,000 tiles -- extreme case I know but not impossible -- and just imagine the hideous amount of scrolling you have to do to launch an application.
Bad Call Ms -- You have to decide whether Windows will remain a desktop OS or a Mobile application -- and until this is sorted out any version of Windows later than W7 will have significant problems in gaining public acceptance.
Cheers
jimbo
and I for one, cannot wait!One thing for sure..... we're all gonna know soon, real soon.