FYI - Windows 7 Surpasses Mac OS X In Terms Of Market Share

FYI – Windows 7 Surpasses Mac OS X In Terms Of Market Share

November 26th, 2009 by ksantani

Windows 7 Vs Mac OS X

We will continue the Windows 7 Vs Mac OS X series. According to Net Applications (a web measurement firm) Windows 7 now holds a market share of 5.07%, which is little higher than the total market share of all versions of Mac OS X (combined). Mac OS X stands at 5%. The statistics are for the last week i.e. Nov 15-21. Due to the launch of Windows 7, the total market share of Windows (all versions) has now increased by 0.12% i.e. from 92.52% in October to 92.64% last week. I don’t know whether this is a good or not so good news for Microsoft.

Why good news? As Windows 7 has surpassed its nearest rival Apple in a matter of just one month.

Why not so good news? When you look at the market share of all versions of Windows for the month of October it stands at 92.52%. Out of massive market share of 92.52%, only 5% of users have actually upgraded their Windows machine in a month (that also include new buyers of Windows 7 machine). This is despite the fact that about 70 % of users are still running the age old Windows XP. Why aren’t XP users shifting to latest version of Windows – Windows 7? If you want to take out an inference out of these stats then well… Windows 7 is moving forward (no doubt about that) but not so fast.

You have just read the two sides of this result. But it’s too early to make any conclusions now, with just a month of Windows 7 launch. So, that’s explains why I have used FYI in the heading .

Via Computer World

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13 Responses to “FYI – Windows 7 Surpasses Mac OS X In Terms Of Market Share”

subash

3 months ago

Its great news for microsoft… In a month itself Windows 7 has gone past Mac OS X which was launched may be 6-7 years back.. Good accomplishment by
Microsoft. Anyways i am also using Windows 7 and love it…

Mayank Agawal
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )

3 months ago

Subash I dont find this very surprising… Windows 7 obviously had to surpass OS- X largely because of the huge market share of Windows. What is really important for MS is how many users are upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7.

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ksantani
(Twitter: @ ksantani )

3 months ago

I want to add one comment made by a Mac user in response of this post in one of the social networking sites. It goes like this “I have to say – Microsoft hit the ball out of the park on this one”. Good start Windows 7 but long way to go…

mac_user

3 months ago

I can’t believe that this report is showing up the real data.. its microsoft oriented company…

expressions

3 months ago

sry mac_user but you got to believe it.
Mac was and will never be a threat to windows.
Expect this to increase. As more and more new computers ship with W7 because I believe most of people who have 7 have it on their new shipped PC/Laptops rather than an upgrade.
I am using 7 beside my Karmic and loving them both. They both make mac look like a mistake.(sry my opinion)

Kernalpanic

3 months ago

Marketshare! A high market share does not make a better product!, I have to use windozzz because of the nature of my business (I run it on a mac of course via parallels) As I can install as many different OS’s as I like on my Mac, I dipped my toe and installed 7……..arggggh WTF it is still dll hell and the registry! jesus what year is this……….?
The fact that XP lasted so long is not a good thing, it highlights how backward Micro$oft are. And guess how long before I started sneezing with my first virus……..
Microshite IMHO.

Christopher Reynolds

3 months ago

Has everyone missed the “Black screen of Death” article on Wired.com?

My SL machines (plural) have been running continuous for nearly 2 years – try that MS.

MS may have everyone in the world to accept mediocre as a norm, viruses and worms as the nature of the OS, but for those of us that have made the crossing of the “Jordan” to the Promised Land, MS is nothing more than the Computing world equivalent of Egyptian rule and enslavement.

Get with the program – GO MAC!

Mayank Agarwal
(Twitter: @ mayank25may )

3 months ago

Well as far as black screen of death article is concerned why not check out this also http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=1575
Though I will agree with the later half of your comment.

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