Windows 8.x August, 2014 Market share

It seems with the first couple of links XP is on the decline.

StatCounter: Windows 8′s Market Share Finally Surpasses Windows XP
StatCounter: Windows 8 Finally Passes Windows XP In Worldwide Desktop Marketshare | WMPoweruser

 

This is the best lie M$ can come up with? Users are going WIndows 7 and they seem to forget. Most isane W8 taking over XP when XP users most likely are going to Vista SP3 or Windows 7. Those numbers are so flawed it's not funny. Reason being XP is low people are leaving it duh....doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to know where the trend is going Windows 7 adoption not Windows 8 as M$ would like to say. StatCounter most likely a MOE paid by M$ to give out false information where the evidence shows W8 is a disaster in the making.

 

I don't care what their market share is, to me, there is only one usable MS OS at the moment, Windows 7

I cannot count the times that I formatted and installed Windows 8.1 to try and give it a chance. Everytime I install it, give it sometime, and something comes up that destroys my experience. It has improved a lot, but I am not accepting a new modern OS that gives me lower benchmarks in every test I've done

 

Trust me your not the only one on this and most that tried and dumped W8 and went looking for W7 Machines did it on their own-most did have to tell them to do so. Even Corporations and Institutions are going to Windows 7 Enterprise that should tell anyone if they don't want W8 what makes it think for M$ that the everyday limited user will want W8 and deal with all the headaches and lost connections and lost time/money want a W8 machine. And don't mention 3rd party that makes W8 like W7 - just get W7 and get over it that's what I tell people if you want W7 get W7 want W8 stay with W8. All those changes from 3rd party to make it W7 puts your O/S in more security holes as W8 Mods don't protect your O/S that will be more secure just by itself even if it has problems itself. IMO

 

We still need to see other stats as well. I do not start these to be W8 bashing threads but informative threads where hopefully M$ starts to get things right for desktop users. At the least we al will know the history behind its deployment and the excuse "Windows 8 and metro were so well adopted" can not be used if the next iteration of Windows fails.

 

oh I didn't mean to start bashing it sorry if it sounded like that. Just saying, that to me personally, it is a big fail. As StormJumper said, people have to do more than 10 tweaks to get Windows 8 setup the way they like, so if one really wants it to look like 7, then he should just install Windows 7 and be over with it.

Now I am a fast adapting person. I am open to change, be it at work, in life, or in computers. I have mastered navigating Windows 8 without even using any start menu 3rd party app and I actually like how fast you can access an app using metro as I just put the most apps I use on the metro screen. that is not my issue. Interface is not my problem. My problem is, MS claims that Windows 8 has better support for newer hardware, SSDs, CPUs, you name it! The only thing I see better in 8 is its built in defragmenter which doesn't defragment an SSD but sends TRIM commands to it, but benchmarking wise, I fail to see why a modern OS with better driver support and support for newer hardware gets beaten by a 7 year old or so OS (win 7) in every benchmark I've thrown at it.

I wished they were able to fix this crippled OS with 8.1, or 8.1 Update 1, or 8.1 Update + August update, but it has failed each and every single time, it's like beating a dead horse

 

Some other news, at least it is not a drop in market share the last month. IMHO this is probably back to school machines changing the landscape around.

Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 see slight increase in their market share, as Windows XP suffers a drop | WinBeta

Finally there is a slight rise in Windows 8.1 use, as XP dips- The Inquirer

 

I think one of the reasons for lower benchmark scores is that W8/8.1 uses very aggressive sleep/wake cycles on the CPU. IIRC and I linked an article it's like 10 times more the CPU is put to sleep and reawaken. Supposedly Windows 9 is going to be even more aggressive than Windows 8.

 

Some more links;

Windows 8 gains market share as XP drops slightly - Neowin

Windows 8.1 continues to inch along - CNET

Windows 8.1 overtakes Windows 8 worldwide, as Windows XP 'refuses to die' | ZDNet

Windows 8.1 market share August 2014: Finally tops Windows 8 | BGR