Windows 7 Passes XP, Now Most Popular OS in the World

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]icepick314[/nom]"about 650,000 million licenses sold per day"good lord that's more than the entire population of Earth!!!joking aside, Windows 7 IS great OS overall...easy on the eye and almost no crashes...probably THE best OS ever from MS besides Windows 2000....[/citation]

I'm still using Win2K most of the time. I have to work with XP/Vista/7 but, when I go home, Win2K is still my favorite. I still haven't seen anything they do that I need. Slower, convoluted, and buggier memory hogs don't really do it for me.

Probably when Windows 8 comes out I'll switch to it; by then it will be difficult to get any support for Win2K, but until then, I'll save the money and enjoy a better OS.

Of course, with Apple eating Microsoft alive, Windows 8 better be something good. If not, the rotting cadaver known as Microsoft will probably go through a lot of pain. It's probably time they get a new CEO before Apple completely consumes Microsoft's market share, just like Google is also doing. Everyone is eating Microsoft alive. Even OpenOffice is gaining market share.

What a choice, Apple or Microsoft. Bring back OS/2!!!!

 

[loomis86]

You can have my XP when you pry it from my cold dead PC.

 

[jdwii]

Windows 7 is the best OS I've ever used its Fast and simple and never messes up on me and when it does windows explorer comes right back unlike xp where you have to go to the task manger and re-run Windows explorer.exe to get it back.

As for Vista, Its was Microsoft's,Companies, Drivers/Software, And most importantly Users.

Microsoft's = Did vista really need 2GB to even run "ok" Windows 7 even runs on just 1GB fine, And Vista did take a little more CPU cycles to do the same thing 7 does. Also why put such low requirements on the box of vista if some one ran vista on those spec's their PC could barley run wordpad.

Companies= When i say this i don't mean little companies i mean HP Intel DELL. Intel fault for making bad integrated graphics that could not even run Aero. HP/DELL fault for giving users 512MB of ram on a vista machine with only a single-core(yes they did it).

Drivers/Software= You have to give software and driver developers time you do but Vista went through Beta for probably 1 year before release and you know they sent copy's to Big corporations such as Intel/Nvidia/AMD. It was probably their fault more then anything when it comes to game compatibly issues.

Users= We've all seen it Users going to bestbuy asking them if their PC can run this with a peace of paper in their hand with the system components listed. And we all know Bestbuy would give them a thumbs up to sell them a copy. This is how Users are when it comes to PC's.
A lot of them expect to run things made in the 90's on a 2011 PC. Some times it does still run but other times it does't unless its a game or custom made software they need to get something else.

 

[puddleglum]

... never messes up on me and when it does ...

Well, which is it?

 

[gm0n3y]

One day my company will let us migrate to Win 7. I just formatted my dev machine and begged IT to allow me to use Win 7. I told them I would do my own support so they wouldn't have to worry about it but they still said no. So I have a clean install of XP again which should be ok for a few months before it starts to crap out again. Development on XP sucks compared to 7.

 

[alidan]

i was planning to dual boot 7 and xp, xp being the main os, and 7... just for its 64bit and dx11 capabilities, but hdds went through the roof, and i cant afford to put 2 of the size i want in my system.

 

[SteelCity1981]

This is going to cause Windows 8 to become stale in sales. The vast majority of people don't upgrade just because something is new out, they upgrade when they have to. Since almost everyone is happy with Windows 7 a lot of people won't upgrade to Windows 8 unless they are buying a computer that comes with it etc. Besides that Windows 8 will be short lived, so it won't have the time to surpass Windows 7 anyhow, because Windows 9 will come out a little over 2 years after Windows 8 is released. Windows 7 is the new new XP in terms of popularity and I see it staying that way for a long time to come.

 

[ProDigit10]

and according to what I've seen, windows 7 will outperform windows 8!
Many aren't too jumpy to get on the WIndows 8 bandwagon!
Windows 8 is an extremely annoying operating system for anyone who wants to do just a little more than opening a word doc file, or click on a tile!

 

[gmcizzle]

[citation][nom]warezme[/nom]uh, just hold the CTRL button and roll the middle wheel on your mouse up or down. This makes your desktop icons bigger or smaller. The taskbar also has an option for small icons but it is only for the taskbar.[/citation]
Oh wow thanks, didn't know that

 

[unclealek2659]

just in time for win8, 2 years to become most popular is impressive, but when u realize that xp came out in 01, you think to yourself "if ms didnt suck, vista would of done this in 07"

 

[ikyung]

So M$ controls 90% of the OS market and yet Apple fanboys are still screaming at the top of their lungs that macs rules?

 

[dark_knight33]

[citation][nom]puddleglum[/nom]Well, which is it?[/citation]

He's Rick James biatch!

 

[captaincharisma]

and according to what I've seen, windows 7 will outperform windows 8!
Many aren't too jumpy to get on the WIndows 8 bandwagon!
Windows 8 is an extremely annoying operating system for anyone who wants to do just a little more than opening a word doc file, or click on a tile!

to me windows 8 is just window 7: tablet edition. offering nothing but the ability to play nice with tablets. i mean i have seen a few minor addons windows 8 will offer but nothing big other than the metro UI. if only they would release a new filesystem already

 

[N0Spin]

Windows 7 is great. Windows Vista was crap. MS realized this and learned from it.

It required a huge jump in hardware requirements, poorly supported even some of their own corporate apps, and the UAC was so bad that numerous tech sites had articles on how to neuter it just to make Vista even usable.

In my own experience, both I and my boss both got new over-spec'd PCs pre-loaded with Vista (pre-SP1), but ended up retaining our prior XP PCs because of all the issues we had with Vista. MS should have been (and I believe was) embarrassed they released it.

Windows 7 is probably what MS hoped Vista would be, BUT it Most Certainly IS NOT Windows Vista 2.0. After the serious black-eye Vista provided, and seeing it's almost non-existent corporate adoption rate, thankfully MS realized what they had done.

As some others have noted, just in hardware requirements alone Windows 7 IS everything Vista NEVER was. I tested both the beta and full-blown corporate versions of Windows 7 on multiple machines, aging Dell D610/D630 laptops as well as new Dell E5400 laptops and Optiplex desktops with little to no issues and truly impressive hardware, software, peripheral and networking support. (It even seemed faster in many aspects than Windows XP had been on those old laptops!)

I have yet to see and touch anything with Windows 8 on it, but from what little I've seen they can keep it. In my opinion, it looks like a smartphone touch screen OS for the technically less savvy masses who get all choked up over the pretty, but non multi-tasking, i-Store imprisoned, and non-user maintainable toys called iPads.

 

[nforce4max]

Well I use just all of them but vista ult 64 is what I like to use. xp like but with some of the bells and whistles. Got osx and win on my two laptops and sometimes use linux on my junkers. I like xp because it is not a total resource hog and most applications work without issue.

 

[captaincharisma]

Vista + Service Packs = Windows 7

and windows XP was nothing but windows 2000 with a face lift

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Windows 7 is the best ever!

 

[f-14]

had every copy of WIN7 included XP mode there would have been a much more massive conversion, but since WIN7 can't run win 95/98 progams and alot of XP programs most corporations that do something other then handle data, like manufacturing might have upgraded if their old software and tooling machines that software was designed to operate had a fairly seemless integration.
microsoft is not interested in sales (cough ballmer cough) however so microsoft essentially doesn't care about the people who actually use their products.
for all you programmers out there all in a huff, you still haven't even written everything for 64 bit much less multi core and only want to work on database service system storage and processing productivity, not real world application where the major $$$$$ is.

 

[Deleted member 431422]

Yes, it is the most popular since almost every new computer has Win 7 preinstalled. These numbers can'e be accurate then. If they stopped, which I doubt will ever happen, installing Windows on new PC's, then we could see how many people are willing to spend their hard earned cash on a new system.

 

[soundping]

The PC is alive and well as it should.

 

[youssef 2010]

[citation][nom]Article[/nom] 650,000 million licenses sold per day[/citation]


We seem to have two typos in one day. What's going on Tom's?

 

[10tacle]

I've been gaming on an overclocked E8400 Vista rig built 3 years ago flawlessly. Earlier this year I built a new overclocked 2500k P67v2 rig and put Windows 7 on it - mostly to play the newer DX11 games. There is very little difference when I use the GUI of each OS when navigating and uploading/downloading files. Anyone who says Vista sucks clearly doesn't know what in the hell they are talking about...other than talking out their ass.

 

[einheriar]

[citation][nom]youssef 2010[/nom]We seem to have two typos in one day. What's going on Tom's?[/citation]

You mean day should be minute? ;-)

 

[TunaSoda]

Other than win7 search & windows explorer, I love it.

 

[Kortana]

[citation][nom]billybobser[/nom]Slow vista take up was primarily down to driver issues.Windows 7 is a debloated vista pretty much.If windows 8 changes the game again, it'll be Vista all over again.To be honest, i'd like a quicker (cut the fat) and more customisable version (add the fat back in how you like it) made available. Instead of a limited features version and a full featured version.[/citation]

You can change them to small icons. It bothers me too. Just right click on the desktop go to View --> Small Icons. Problem solved. Same thing with the taskbar. Right click on the taskbar, Properties, and check "Use Small Icons". Hope that helps!