StatCounter confirms that for the period between September 2013 and August 2014, Windows 7 led the charts with 55.01%. Windows X came in second with 18.43%, while the third spot surprisingly goes to Mac OS X with a solid 8.2%. Windows Vista comes next with some 4.19% in this timeframe. The latest version of the OS, Windows 8.1, managed only 3.87% of the desktop market in this timeframe, though Windows 8 vanilla conquered 7.83% — this is enough to push Microsoft’s modern platform to a combined share of 11.7%. Which is good enough to make it the third most popular platform the world over.]]>
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These comparisons are pointless. By the time the new year rolls around 8.x combined share will be the #2 OS.
Sad, even though 8 is still new. Even the biggest Microsoft fanboy can admit that Vista is a total disaster. Because of that, it’s amazing that many people are still using Vista.
Maybe these people don’t know it’s a disaster. I offered to upgrade some people from Vista to 7, and they said they were fine
That’s an interesting point. I guess they just don’t know better or don’t care. Windows 7 and 8 are miles better than Vista, so I feel sorry for them.
Even though win8.1 is better than win8 overall, but win8 still has more users than 8.1. So about 2/3 of win8.x users don’t really care what they are using.