Windows XP Drops Below 40%, Windows 8 Passes 1%

[internetlad]

XP had it's day in the sun. The scary part is that 40% of people are still using a 10 year old OS that will be abandoned in little over a year by the company that created it.

And for christ's sake, stop bashing windows 8. I bet most of the people who are proclaiming that it's so fuckin' terrible, different and hard to use haven't spent (if any time at all) more than an hour using it.

Anybody with half a brain should be able to figure out that the interface-formerly-known-as-metro is just the new start button. Create a link on your desktop for My Computer and Control Panel, since it's so hard to hit the winkey and do a search for them just like could have done in vista and 7. Proceed to pin all your frequently used programs (For most of you haters, that's Internet exp. . . i'm sorry, Chrome or Firefox since you only use what your friends tell you to.) and there. You now never have to navigate the ABSOLUTE HORROR known as the new start menu ever again.

Seriously, the sheer combination of stubborness and idiocy some people display is mind-boggling. Windows 8 isn't bad. I've been using it for a month now and, while it doesn't offer any real compulsion to upgrade from an existing windows 7 machine, it's fantastic on touch-screen applications, and certainly doesn't deserve to be bashed in the least.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

A substantially higher percentage of gamers seem to have adopted Windows 8. According to Steam, 4.69% of Steam users ran Windows 8 as of the end of November. lol, that's already a higher percentage than OSX.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/4_69_percent_of_steam_users_run_windows_8.html

 

[lathe26]

According to PC Pit Stop's research, which tends to be US centric, here's the approximate Windows breakdown:
• 8 -

 

[lathe26]

[citation][nom]lathe26[/nom]According to PC Pit Stop's research, which tends to be US centric, here's the approximate Windows breakdown:• 8 -[/citation]

Ok, my post got truncated because of the "less than" symbol. Here, again, is the post:

According to PC Pit Stop's research, which tends to be US centric, here's the approximate Windows breakdown:
• 8 - less than 5%
• 7 - ~50%
• Vista - ~15%
• XP - ~30%

These numbers are approximate since I was eyeballing a graph.

http://techtalk.pcpitstop.com/research-charts-windows/

 

[noblerabbit]

I work in distribution, I still sell fourteen thousand copies of Windows 7, before I have to FORCE someone to take a single copy of Win 8 off my hands.

 

[brettms71]

So many businesses still run XP as well. We are sturggling to move from XP, but will move to windows 8 next year (70,000 PC's). Security on Windows 8 seems significantly better in windows 8 for a company as well, and the security team at work are actively recommending it over trying to go to windows 7 now.

 

[obsama1]

Chrome OS does not pose much competition for Windows. It's great for most consumers, but since it's an online-only device, you always need internet, and unlimited data has gone the way of the dodo. It's a good product, but unless we get unlimited data back, it's not going to gain a lot of market share.

 

[Guest]

I think I would rather go back to Windows XP than put 8 on my desktop. Win 7 works just fine and will for years to come.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

... and then there were 7.

 

[apache_lives]

Used the 90 day enterprise trial before 8 was out now using 8 Pro

There is nothing wrong with 8 its a beautiful OS

There is something wrong with people who have NEVER used 8 and say its a bad OS (same as Vista)

 

[Guest]

When you ship all prebuilts with Win8, it's no wonder why the number of Win8 users is going up. It isn't because people necessarily like Win8, it's just because that is what new (prebuilt) PC owners get for "free."

It's a little more shocking that it is only 1%. Shows how much (prebuilt) PC sales have slowed lately.

 

[billgatez]

I wounder if that 1% includes Windows 8 RT devices and legal downloads of Windows 8.

 

[ojas]

StatCounter did not release Windows market share numbers and listed the new OS under "other" operating systems, which landed at 3.08 percent.

That's been there for a very long time, and probably included Linux as well.

 

[Guest]

85-90% of the market share and people call Microsoft irrelevant. So what does it take to be relevant?

 

[upgrade_1977]

Put the start button back, default to desktop mode, and kill the RT ver.
Problem solved..

 

[apache_lives]

[citation][nom]upgrade_1977[/nom]Put the start button back, default to desktop mode, and kill the RT ver. Problem solved..[/citation]

RT is the important to Microsoft for growth and market domination on all device/OS fronts

 

[3ogdy]

[citation][nom]Pherule[/nom]Regarding XP...http://www.freeimagehosting.net/newuploads/gn349.png[/citation]
I'd rather stick to XP and Se7en ...that will also get older and older, than use BULLSHIT OSes like Windows "8"...
Using the latest version doesn't always mean using the best one, especially when Windows "8" is such a freaking fail all over(talking strictly PC -wise).
So there you have it, nearly dead adoption rates and hopefully Ballshit will be out - we don't need useless crap from him and we DEFINITELY consider the fact that they ignore us and play us the way they want to as being something worth Ballshit's DIMISSION.

 

[3ogdy]

[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]When you ship all prebuilts with Win8, it's no wonder why the number of Win8 users is going up. It isn't because people necessarily like Win8, it's just because that is what new (prebuilt) PC owners get for "free."It's a little more shocking that it is only 1%. Shows how much (prebuilt) PC sales have slowed lately.[/citation]
If you support Vista, it is obiviously understandable for you to support "8". After all, it's another Microsoft piece of software in the making of which, PERSONAL COMPUTER(DESKTOP&LAPTOP) USERS GOT SCREWED!