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| Windows 7 Hits 3% Market Share, Approaches 4% |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2009-11-02 23:59:52 |
| Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark. |
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| There is no debate... |
| By mrhasbean on 2009-11-03 00:39:58 |
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...that Microsoft's marketing strategies have been fantastic. Market share wise they are undoubtedly without equal, the perfect choice for those who like to run life in a "safety in numbers" mode. In fact they have been so successful at securing the adoption of their technologies over the years that most companies are in the unenviable position of not being able to switch even if they wanted to, and this is the perfect model for making sure your market share continues to dominate. Well done Microsoft |
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| RE: There is no debate... |
| By TObYv on 2009-11-03 01:00:13 |
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> In fact they have been so successful at securing the adoption of their technologies over the years Looking at you, Miguel de Caza. |
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| Windows market share |
| By lemur2 on 2009-11-03 01:01:26 |
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Windows has a fantastic market share for two main reasons. 1. When they purchase desktop computing hardware, the vast majority of people are never offered a Linux option on the same hardware, and they are not even aware that there is another OS option that would run on the same hardware, so they do not ask. 2. Most Linux installations are not "sold". Mass installations of Linux can be done without registering a single OS sale anywhere. Because there is no sale, there is no impact on market share figures. Meh. I'm happy that the proportion of "installed base" of Linux on the desktop is growing nicely and that it is several times higher than the figure often quoted for Linux market share. Linux installed base on servers is a lot higher again. On the largest group of CPUs on the planet, which are low-power embedded CPUs, Linux rules. |
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| RE: There is no debate... |
| By wakeupneo on 2009-11-03 01:48:11 |
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> In fact they have been so successful at securing the adoption of their technologies over the years that most companies are in the unenviable position of not being able to switch even if they wanted to Yup....it's spelt M.O.N.O.P.O.L.Y. |
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| RE: Windows market share |
| By flanque on 2009-11-03 02:04:55 |
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If all that makes you feel good and sleep well at night then fair enough. Who am I to deny you that.. The bottom line at least for me is that Linux based operating systems don't even come close to competiting with something like Windows 7. It is by far a superior desktop operating system to anything that the Linux desktop alternatives have to offer. Microsoft have done very well with this release. |
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| Linux share |
| By KenP on 2009-11-03 02:10:20 |
| How is the linux share counted? Computers sold with Linux? Browsers? Both are erroneous, to say the least. These statistics are more to boost Windows marketshare -- and probably sponsored -- as people see a popular choice as a safer choice, which does not mean that it is so. |
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| RE[2]: Windows market share |
| By lemur2 on 2009-11-03 02:36:57 |
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> If all that makes you feel good and sleep well at night then fair enough. Who am I to deny you that.. The bottom line at least for me is that Linux based operating systems don't even come close to competiting with something like Windows 7. It is by far a superior desktop operating system to anything that the Linux desktop alternatives have to offer. Microsoft have done very well with this release. Ubuntu (and Kubuntu) is a faster desktop OS than Windows 7: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/... http://www.tuxradar.com/content/... Ubuntu/Kubuntu comes with vastly more and significantly better quality desktop software, it is cheaper and faster to run, running it on as many machines as you want carries no risks with respect to license compliance, it runs on a vastly wider array of existing desktop hardware, it supports a significantly wider array of data formats, it even has more desktop "bling", and if you are prepared to stick to installing software only from open source repositories, it is guaranteed to get no malware. So while it is perfectly reasonable for you to say that Windows 7 is better for you, such a view can hardly be called universally objective. It just doesn't stand up under any objective criteria whatsoever. Edited 2009-11-03 02:50 UTC |
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| RE: Linux share |
| By lemur2 on 2009-11-03 02:44:46 |
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> How is the linux share counted? Computers sold with Linux? Browsers? Both are erroneous, to say the least. These statistics are more to boost Windows marketshare -- and probably sponsored -- as people see a popular choice as a safer choice, which does not mean that it is so. In some countries, firefox has overtaken IE in browser share. http://www.atinternet-institute.... Please excuse the French, look at the graphs. |
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| RE[3]: Windows market share |
| By flanque on 2009-11-03 02:46:20 |
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That's precisely why I said for me. The majority of the review is also very positive so it's not as isolated a point of view than just mine. |
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| RE[3]: Windows market share |
| By sukru on 2009-11-03 02:47:06 |
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But those individual "me's" add up to a lot of "us". Edited 2009-11-03 02:47 UTC |
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