Windows 7 market share UP in January

Topic

New Reply

No, I don’t believe the numbers. But this one’s gotta tickle yer fancy. According to NetMarketShare, Win7 went from 36.90% share in December to 37.19%
[See the full post at: Windows 7 market share UP in January]

5 users thanked author for this post.

abbodi86, Ascaris, PhotM, Elly, GreatAndPowerfulTech

Reply | Quote

Replies

If you dig into the data, it looks like a bunch of folks finally upgraded from XP to 7.

4 users thanked author for this post.

Elly, Karlston, Geo, woody

Reply | Quote

The one compelling reason to continue with Win7 is Windows Media Center, one of the better software efforts from MSFT.  I have two computers running cable card tuners flawlessly so that I don’t have to pay Verizon for set top boxes.  Since they are dedicated only to this task, I’m not terribly worried about enhanced security and expect them both to continue working once Win7 support officially ends.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Cybertooth

Reply | Quote

Given the updating and version upgrading problems that have beset Windows 10 lately, it wouldn’t be at all surprising to me if more Windows 10 users had decided to roll back to Windows 7.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Nibbled To Death By Ducks

Reply | Quote

Spot on!  Windows-10 is going to have to experience many months of error-free updates before it can be considered as serious successor to Windows-7.  MS has over-hyped Windows-10 so much since original inception years ago, now that MS is having to “deliver,” and is failing miserably.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Nibbled To Death By Ducks

Reply | Quote

Yea, Verily, and Amen! Win 10 users of the world, throw off your shackles! You have nothing to lose but your aggravation!

(Well, maybe not totally, but you will feel much better…)

Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit, Dell Latitude E6330 ("The Tank"), Intel CORE i5 "Ivy Bridge", 12GB RAM, Group "0Patch", Multiple Air-Gapped backup drives in different locations. Linux Mint Newbie
--
"The more kinks you put in the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the pipes." -Scotty

Reply | Quote

I know I have been deeply tempted myself as of recent. I am conflicted and keep holding on but wondering what for. I feel like I might as well ride the wave because ending support is around the corner but I am also thinking why not go to the lesser of the two evils where I have some mitigated control.

Reply | Quote

I wonder if the actual counts of machines running window isn’t dropping as folks figure out Linux (or even Mac, Android) are better options. That switchover could primarily affect the windows-10 variety causing the relative percentages to increase for win-7.

I know I’ve switched 4 of my 5 machines to Linux in the last 2-3 years, very happily.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Karlston

Reply | Quote

My take is the W7, while slowly declining, usage can be flat from month-to-month. It should be declining as older kit is replaced. The data suggests MS has a serious problem with resistance to W10.

6 users thanked author for this post.

Steve, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, GoneToPlaid, Cybertooth, Geo, Karlston

Reply | Quote

Incredible, amazing, astounding!

MacOS (formerly known as OS X) is now ahead of Windows!  (Ehem.. XP and 8.1, that is…)

Ex-Windows user (Win. 98, XP, 7); since mid-2017 using also macOS. Presently on Monterey 12.15 & sometimes running also Linux (Mint).

MacBook Pro circa mid-2015, 15" display, with 16GB 1600 GHz DDR3 RAM, 1 TB SSD, a Haswell architecture Intel CPU with 4 Cores and 8 Threads model i7-4870HQ @ 2.50GHz.
Intel Iris Pro GPU with Built-in Bus, VRAM 1.5 GB, Display 2880 x 1800 Retina, 24-Bit color.
macOS Monterey; browsers: Waterfox "Current", Vivaldi and (now and then) Chrome; security apps. Intego AV

2 users thanked author for this post.

Microfix, Karlston

Reply | Quote

This probably echos declining PC sales but what is real and what isn’t we don’t know. I suspect PC sales are down more than what is reported.

Reply | Quote

I believe the numbers, Woody!

I believe they’re legitimately what NetMarketShare has collected through their member sites, whatever those may be, after they have applied whatever correction magic to that they do.   I think they’re actual numbers, but whether they represent global market share is anyone’s guess.  It’s the trends in the numbers that are more interesting than the absolutes.

This uptick will undoubtedly show to be just a blip.  I don’t think it signifies people rejecting 10 or anything more than a random ebb of more Windows 7 users visiting sites with the analytics scripts embedded than last month.  We’ve seen many of them before, and then the continued downward slide of 7 continues.

Even after I’d already conceded that MS was doing this intentionally (and thus was not going to “get it” if enough of us refused 10), I still used to get a small thrill out of a continued sign of Windows 7’s strength.  Not anymore, though.  They’ve won this one, and Windows users have lost… big.  Home users, in particular.

It was bound to happen once MS decided on the scorched-earth policy of “persuading” people to upgrade.  When a company the size of Microsoft decides to put their monopoly to full use, they can move mountains, in the short term at least.  They spent a lot of time and effort getting people, and corporations especially, locked into the MS manacles.

What’s the good of having this kind of power if you never use it?  They never really did with Windows itself before 10.  When Vista failed, there was no attempt to sabotage or FUD Windows XP… they got back to work and fixed it, and the renewed product won people over by being a great product; by carrot, not stick.  Browsers are another story; they certainly did use their Windows monopoly power to achieve the kind of market share with IE that they now hold with Windows itself (how’d that IE thing work out again, Microsoft?).

Dell XPS 13/9310, i5-1135G7/16GB, KDE Neon 6.2
XPG Xenia 15, i7-9750H/32GB & GTX1660ti, Kubuntu 24.04
Acer Swift Go 14, i5-1335U/16GB, Kubuntu 24.04 (and Win 11)

2 users thanked author for this post.

AlexEiffel, OscarCP

Reply | Quote