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Windows 7 Still Holds Major Market Share Ahead Of Windows 10 Release

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It will be interesting to see how this pie chart changes after Windows 10 launches. Due to the free upgrade offer I think Windows 10 will take 10% of the Windows 8.1 pie and 40% of the Windows 7 pie.
 
It will be interesting to see how this pie chart changes after Windows 10 launches. Due to the free upgrade offer I think Windows 10 will take 10% of the Windows 8.1 pie and 40% of the Windows 7 pie.
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Agreed, however windows 7 will still be used by many because it's reliable and familiar. I think windows 10 in around a year after it's release will reach 20% of the market share.
 
The vast majority of businesses will continue to use Windows 7 for at least another 3-5 years so that software companies can "catch up".

I think Windows 10 will be more popular than 8 (purely based on that it's a free upgrade), but Win7 will stay strong for some time.
 
That depends on if this chart includes business based PCs or is only consumer based PCs.

In all honesty you cannot include most businesses as they keep older OS due to:

1. Old software that no longer receives updates or will work on a newer version (can include Windows 98/2K/XP or even DOS)

2. The cost to upgrade is too much and they just recently upgraded

The majority of businesses just upgraded to 7 a bit before 8s launch so they wont be upgrading for a few more years.

I think 10 will excel in the consumer market and business market but it will take longer on the latter due to how businesses run. IT is determined by cost effectiveness, no longer is it determined by what works and is better.
 
I'm a power user and I won't tolerate giving control of system updates to MS to download and install whenever and whatever they feel like. Now that they've shown they are willing to download advertisements as "patches" to your operating system and YOU, the user, will not be able to uninstall them under Win10. No thanks.
 
I'm surprised that windows XP only has 11% market share. Where do these numbers come from?

A lot of major corporations still use windows xp.
 
I'm surprised that windows XP only has 11% market share. Where do these numbers come from?

A lot of major corporations still use windows xp.
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I wonder if maybe an enterprise/volume license is only counting as 1 license, even though it's installed on like 500 systems.

It may be the end of XP support really did force a lot of businesses to upgrade. I was working as an IT contractor last year and we were doing a great deal of them, as well as encouraging our clients to upgrade because we're trying to protect them from the huge vulnerabilities that staying on XP would leave them open to.
 
Since Windows 10 is worse than Windows 8.x which is worse than Windows 7, Windows 10 will be another EPIC failure by Microsoft and that is good for all of us because they will be force to finally release a real Windows 7 successor. Compared to last month Windows 7 gained mosty from Windows XP users. Trend will continue as i am expecting for Windows 7 to hit close to 70% in the next 6 months where Windows 8.1 market share will split into half between Windows 10 and Windows 8.1.
 
Just because you see Free or $0.99 burger it doesn't mean it is good. Microsoft counts on American mentality of going after free even though it is crap.
 


Except Win8 is better than Win7 in every aspect. People's main complaint was the Metro screen which had a great replacement almost on launch by the name of Start8. I've been using Win8 since almost day dot and using Start8 the entire time and it's been great. It's faster, more stable, and uses less resources. It has improvements in a whole myriad of areas which I'm not going to bother typing here because there are thousands of sites explaining the improvements.
You might argue that you shouldn't need a 3rd party program to use your Windows the way you like to. By that ridiculous rationale there should be no need for Google Chrome, VLC media player, 7zip etc.
The beauty of windows is the ability to use 3rd party software to set up the user experience that you desire. MS decided to try a metro window and if you don't like it then use Start8.
Win10 will be a success. How much of a success depends on whether they can shift the stubborn and ill-informed XP and Win7 users.
I can completely understand not buying Win8 when you are using Win7, your spending money for a small upgrade. If I had owned 7 I wouldn't of bought 8.
Win10 is a free upgrade, there will be no point in staying in the past and denying yourself a quality of life improvement.
I'm not saying be an early adopter as all OS's in the past have had launch issues. Win10 has the largest beta test program to date so it might just be the best launch to date as well.
I'll be sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting to see where the chips fall.
 
I strongly suspect many corporate users will upgrade from 7 to 10, albeit perhaps not for several months. The point about end of life and the increasing risks of unpatched security holes makes the move more compelling. And remember: Windows 8 is 3 years old. SMALL companies may well not update; my chiropractor and optometrist both ran 1-doctor offices, with all the billing and stuff running on a single, OLDER PC. For them, updating would've been awful. But for many businesses, an upgrade from 7 to 10 shouldn't be a big deal. I believe Metro was the major reason why they DIDN'T upgrade.

WRT this chart...I think that by, say, October 1, Win 10 will have more market share than 8 and 8.1 combined. It'll take longer to surpass 7, of course; a lot will depend on how clean and stable this "IPO" version is.
 
lol I agree, most businesses would not upgrade to 8 purely because of the Modern UI. A lot of us disliked 8 because of the UI changes, its much worse when you take a person who has been working with the standard Windows UI since Windows 98 and telling them to switch on over to a completely different way of accessing applications. Especially when there is a difference between the Modern UI version and Desktop UI version.
 
I bet Win 10 adoption will be much faster than any previous version. Free goes a looong way. Since they put a time limit on free that will also give them a boost. Gamers will get it for DX12. If the upgrade process itself is relatively hassle free the end of the year adoption number will likely be 10-15% or more.
 
My plan is to "upgrade" my laptop to Windows 10 and see how I like it and if all my programs will continue to work. Since I can always go back to Windows 7, I have nothing to lose with the free upgrade. If I like it, I will upgrade my desktop.

Anyone know if it's true that Windows Phone 10 will work and be a free upgrade on phones like the Galaxy S5? I heard a rumor a while back that MS was going to make it compatible for a wide range of currently non-windows phones, but nothing in a long while.
 
I think the biggest gamble will be if its the first Windows OS ever to not be bug prone for the first 6 months.
On your question about Windows Phone 10 being an upgrade path for Android phones, the answer is probably a big fat no. Although the OS is compatible to install on the hardware, there are probably some minute changes the phone maker has to make in order for it to be compatible with Windows Phone OS. For instance HTC One W8 took 6 months to port over to Windows Phone. If it was a simple swap it should have been over night. What MS has been trying to do is get current smart phone providers to also offer a Windows Phone version.
 
I would love to take advantage of my free upgrade to Windows 10, however I'm still stuck using Windows Media Center for my Live TV needs, and unfortunately, I'd invested a lot of money in it. It's ok, I'm fine on Windows 7, but I do generally like to keep up with the times, that is, if Microsoft is releasing something worth using.
 
Seeing these OS breakdowns always fill me with joy. I know it's not really relevant to the story but I find it very satisfying that for all the chest beating and undue prominence it gets in the tech press, OSX remains a teeny tiny slice of the pie.
 
Installed latest build of windows 10 this week and absolutely hated it. What the hell, it's even uglier than windows 8.
- No window borders/frame
- A stupid white title bar for all legacy windows,
- Hideous close, maximise,minimise icons in the title bar (disproportional spacing, with no rollover effect)
- Awful skinny font for the windows title text
- icon design in file explorer alone makes me want to vomit
- don't even get me started on the new control panel (designed for children < 5)
I can't believe a graphic designer puts their name to this, aaaaargh it hurts my eyes.
 
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