Report: Windows XP Still Dominates U.S. PCs
Recent stats indicate that Windows 7 is catching up to Vista on the market, however XP still rules the world.
Analytics firm StatCounter reports that Windows 7 has finally jumped ahead of Windows Vista in total market share worldwide. The data is based on an analysis of 15 billion page views for August 2010 collected from the StatCounter network of over three million websites.
According to August numbers, Windows 7 took a 19.4-percent worldwide market share whereas Vista only racked in 17.7-percent. Unsurprisingly, Windows XP still dominates the Microsoft OS market, taking a 55.4-percent total market share.
"Africa, Asia and South America are driving the increased market share for Windows 7," said Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. "Although there has been extremely good growth for Windows 7 in Europe and North America, it has yet to overtake Vista in these regions."
As indicated, Windows Vista is still outperforming Windows 7 here in the States, taking in 24.7-percent compared to Windows 7's 20.7-percent. Windows XP still rules the local market however, taking in a meatier 50.6-percent.
In Europe, the gap isn't quite so large. While XP still commands a large 47.5-percent market share, Windows Vista retains a slightly larger 22.7-percent market share over Windows 7's smaller 21.9-percent.
"The installed base of Windows Vista was very low in Africa, Asia and South America and now users in these regions are upgrading straight from Windows XP to Windows 7 giving rise to this leap in market share," Cullen added.
Consumers interested in individual country analysis can head here.
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Have to sat I really loved WinXP as an operating system, allthough I dumped using the X64 version as driver and app support was terrible. I happily ran the the 32bit version on my AMD64FX chip for atleast 5 yrs with no real issues. I've seen Vista running on various machines and found it to be slow and laggy and when I installed the Beta on my machine it allmost ground to a halt. Since beta testing win7 and buying the ultimate x64 version I can honestly say I wont be going back to XP. Win7 is extremely good, much better speed wise than XP in allmost alll tasks I use my PC for. Plus with modern games requiring DX10 or DX11 win7 is a must for myself.
I had 8 good years with XP, but except for legacy purposes, it`s time to move on.
XP was great to me. I still run it on fileservers here. Vista is fine too but I prefer 7.
"If it aint broke don't fix it"