Windows 8.1 pulls ahead of Windows XP

[HEXUS]

But Windows 7 still remains miles ahead.

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[aidanjt]

I'm not sure if finally overtaking a dead and rotting corpse over a year later is any great achievement to cheer about.

[Tabbykatze]

People still use Vista O.o

[OilSheikh]

I'm not sure if finally overtaking a dead and rotting corpse over a year later is any great achievement to cheer about.

Let me correct that for you.

I'm not sure if finally overtaking a 15 years old OS is any great achievement to cheer about.

[engkongtampan]

that vista user was shocking me LOL

[Percy1983]

I don't see how Vista is so shocking, Vista SP3 has the largest percentage.

I will say the only reason I gave up Vista was cheap upgrade prices to 7 and then 8, if I every want an uber cheap legit OS Vista licenses can be had for next to nothing, with sp2 its solid, quick and reliable.

[3dcandy]

Never been a fan of Vista and 7 nearly always performs much better on the same hardware. Kinda a no-brainer in my eyes.
Win 10 - I'm liking what I've seen so far, much better than 8.1 for me, but as my laptop doesn't have touch I prefer it just for that reason alone

[crossy]

Never been a fan of Vista and 7 nearly always performs much better on the same hardware. Kinda a no-brainer in my eyes.
Win 10 - I'm liking what I've seen so far, much better than 8.1 for me, but as my laptop doesn't have touch I prefer it just for that reason alone

Same deal here - although in my case the laptop is running Ubuntu anyway , but my desktop (like most peoples I guess) isn't "touch enabled".

I've come to the conclusion that the Vista install we had (installed by Dell and then debloated) must have been a bad one, judging on the number of folks "coming out of the woodwork" to praise it. Vista for me - even with the SP's - was glacially slow, horribly annoying and an eater of battery. Windows7 (despite the Vista-fans claim that "it's just a service pack for Vista) was an improvement in every single aspect). And given that the laptop in question was SWMBO's - it was worth splashing out for an Windows7 license (not upgrade) just to put an end to the complaints.

Windows8/8.1 has that Vista-esque ability to annoy the bejabbers out of me, so I've high hopes that Windows10 will be a similar improvement to 8 as 7 was to Vista.

[spanna]

This always makes me laugh

Windows is pretty much installed on most new PC's, unless the consumer jumps through a lot of hoops. So of course it starts to take market share by default as new computers are sold.

If it were offered as a choice which people could accept or decline then market share would be relevant, as it is eventually as people replace aging PC's then market share goes up

[DemonHighwayman]

I'm sure microsoft stopped oem's shipping new systems with windows 7 a few months back which may account for win 8's uptake. I'm still running vista on an old laptop which I tried to run with Ubuntu but performance was terrible because of a lack of drivers for it, my main rig still runs 7 though. Also I just upgraded my mothers PC to windows 7 from windows 8.1 and she seems much happier with it now

[bawrash]

Not including DirectX 12 is a sure way to manipulate a large portion of the market away from windows 7

[SineWave]

What is Microsoft? They make operating systems? Wow, I didn't know that.

[SineWave]

All microsoft is doing is **** us in the arse with its forced sales.

[aniilv]

Yeah Microsoft is the devil and Apple is not forcing anything onto their hardware... right right?