Windows 7 Grabs 4% of PC Market

Looks that this time it IS different...



"Vista took six months to reach 4% of the market

Microsoft has a lot riding on Windows 7 after Vista was poorly adopted by enterprise users and consumers. Windows 7 so far has been doing much better than Vista and is growing rapidly in marketshare in the computer market.

Early reports showed that retail box sales of Windows 7 were up a whopping 234% compared to sales of Vista over the same time period. A new report has now been published by Net Applications that shows Windows 7 has significantly increased its share of the overall PC market since its launch. As of November 9 Windows 7 has 4% of the OS market.

The adoption rate among users is much higher than the adoption rate of Vista over the same period. Since its launch, Windows 7 has grown 84% in marketshare. It took Vista six months to claim 4% of the OS market when it launched. Net Applications reports that Windows OS' of all flavors own 92.5% of the OS market, a slight decline from 93.06% that it owned in August 2009. Linux owns 0.96% of the OS market with Mac owning 5.27%.

Microsoft is aggressively pushing the new operating system with discounts and promotional offers with retailers like Best Buy. The software giant is also trying to make upgrades from legacy operating systems like XP to Windows 7 easier since there is no direct upgrade path between the two OS'.

Microsoft has maintained that sales of Windows 7 will be largely tied to the sales of PCs moving forward, which have slumped due to the poor economy. The good news for Microsoft is that PC sales are currently growing with a 95% increase in the weeks before and after Windows 7 launched. This is the one spot where Vista holds an edge over Windows 7 – PC sales jumped 170% after Vista launched."

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=16788

 

heh... considering Apple's share of the PC market is dropping fast, Win7 might soon overtake OS10

 

Any statistics about Apple's share dropping ?

 

Very good article. I think part of the reason is that there was like 6 years between XP and Vista, so not a lot of people were able to adopt Vista due to 6, 7, 8+ year-old hardware. Those who did try to adopt with such old HW gave it bad reviews because it performed poorly on their single-core Pentium 3 and 512 MB RAM.

However, less than 3 years between Vista and 7, and mainstream HW has stayed relatively constant IMO in these 3 years, I mean mainly still dual core processors, roughly 2-4 GB RAM, etc., so 7 was more easily adopted since it didn't have as much of a gap as Vista had to accomplish. I wasn't around to beta-test Vista but the 7 beta in Nov. 2008 and the 7 RC1 surely convinced me it was a good system and well worth the upgrade.

 

I would like to know this to. The market share fluctuates like anything else, but I definitely would not say it's 'dropping fast'.

Props to Win 7 though, great OS. If this can't overthrow XP, then nothing will.

 

Windows is the stuff.

I prefer choices. And lots of them.

Support the free market.

 

According the to sites I follow Apple's share is growing slightly. Was 3.96% a year ago and now is 4.8%

I despise the company and their products, but the above poster is correct - competition benefits all of us.

 

Lower WinPC prices, the recession and the new netbook market have both apparently taken the steam out of Apple's recent gains in the PC market and its share of "new computer sales" has apparently been falling this year:

http://blogs.eweek.com/applewatch/content/channel/mac_marketshare_declines_again.html

Now, granted, it made big gains in previous years, which helped boost its overall share of the market, but the price/recession issue and stepped up MS marketing is probably going to take its toll.

 

The numbers on sites like that are always sketchy...they may or may not be real.

Apply itself just released a statement about how their market share has grown...of course the statement came from Apple, so...grain of salt.

The numbers on that showed them with 9% share as of April, but many sites claim that number is actually false and inflated.

In the end the competition is good for all of us because it pushes Microsoft to get off their fat asses and work for our business. Still, it's nice to see the smile wiped off the face of some Apple Turtle-Neckers.