Windows 7 Marketshare Jumps Past 3 Percent
Windows 7 market share is slowly rising.
Windows 7 has officially been a part of the worldwide mass market for more than a week and a half and now makes up more than 3.6 percent of all PCs tracked by research firm Net Applications.
Net Applications tracks OS usage statistics through information reported by internet browser software. On October 21, the day before the official launch, Windows 7 usage was at 1.89 per cent, according to Channel Register. By launch day, the number hit 1.99 per cent, constantly rising to 3.67 percent it hit on November 1.
Throughout October, various versions of Windows made up 92.52 percent of the browsing market, with Mac OS X taking 5.27 per cent, and Linux at 0.96 percent.
Despite the steadily growing Windows 7 share, Microsoft's OS as a whole have been falling as Windows had nearly 94 percent of the market in December 2008. Share of Mac OS X and mobile browsers appears to have modestly risen in its place.
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I think people are going to wait a while longer. There will be a lot of Xmas and Jan sale deals to be had soon.
There are probably plenty of people like me who are waiting to install until AMD prices settle and the new DX11 cards come down in price. I have W7 sitting here in a box but want to do the upgrade and install in one hit.
If MS and ATI had got together and done this right, like put some weight behind DX11 gaming development then things would be going a lot quicker. As it is i dont feel a huge urge to upgrade to DX11, no games worth owning yet. That and in not happy with the UK price of my chosen DX11 card, 5770. If the DX11 games were there and the cards were about £30 cheaper then i would be all over it but as it is im happy to wait it out.