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There are still a lot of people out there running Windows XP, whether it’s because they prefer it, or they’re stuck in an office or other workplace that doesn’t support anything but it, or they rely on applications that only run in Windows XP. Still, slowly but surely, Windows 7 has been...

Use of Windows 7 pulls ahead of Windows XP for first time, Web analytics firm says. Link Removed

For many people, Windows XP was king. Even so far as last year, it still held a dominant position in terms of market share. However, Windows 7 has been converting many people and soon it should take the top spot in terms of overall US market share . Last year, Windows XP had a market share of...

Winodws 7 has surpassed its decade-old predecessor Windows XP to take the crown as the top OS in the United States. More...

Winodws 7 has surpassed its decade-old predecessor Windows XP to take the crown as the top OS in the United States. Link Removed

Apple's market share still to slide. More...

There are still a lot of people out there running Windows XP, whether it’s because they prefer it, or they’re stuck in an office or other workplace that doesn’t support anything but it, or they rely on applications that only run in Windows XP. Still, slowly but surely, Windows 7 has been...

As recently as a year ago, Windows XP was the kingpin of PCs in the US with 43.1 percent market share. But that's rapidly changing. StatCounter shows that while Mac OS X is creeping up slightly and Windows Vista continues its death march, Windows 7 is on the rise, steadily closing the gap with...

Computerworld - Windows 7 has passed the 10-year-old Windows XP in U.S. usage share, according to data from an Irish Web analytics company. In the first 10 days of April, Windows 7's average daily share was 32.2% as measured by StatCounter, besting XP's average of 30.7%. Link Removed due to 404...

Someone get the party balloons and slap a big "7" on them, for Windows 7 has finally overtaken its younger brother, Windows XP, in U.S. desktop market share. More...

It was bound to happen, no matter how hard people tried to hold on to a 10 year old operating system. Word came today from Pingdom that Windows 7 has finally surpassed Windows XP in the U.S. As of April Windows 7 has 31.71% of the desktop operating system market whereas Windows XP is now [...]...

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The trend was obvious Link Removed - Invalid URL, and now it finally happened: Android is the most popular smartphone platform among U.S. subscribers. According to comScore's data, Google's Android rose from 23.5% market share in October 2010 to 31.2% in January 2011, enough to securely grab...

Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...

Big vendors aren't democracies, so when Kevin Armour, the CTO of Paycor Inc., heard last year that Microsoft was ending support for Itanium, he knew he was stuck. "I was a little disappointed," he said of Microsoft's decision, which was made a year ago next month. Armour's three-year-old...

Microsoft's widely viewed as a tad late to the smartphone market with its Windows 7 phone, entering a market dominated by iPhone apps as Google's Android platform also rapidly gains marketshare. But according to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft chief exec Steve Ballmer was at Barcelona's...

But Microsoft is still losing market share. More...

But XP projected to still account for 13% when it's retired in 2014 Windows 7 cracked the 20% share mark last month, a milestone the problem-plagued Vista never reached, a web measurement vendor said over the weekend. Link Removed - Invalid URL

XP expected to still account for 13% when it's retired in 2014 Microsoft's Windows 7 cracked the 20 percent share mark last month, a milestone the problem-plagued Vista never reached. Link Removed - Invalid URL

Windows 7 cracked the 20% share mark last month, a milestone the problem-plagued Vista never reached, a Web measurement vendor said over the weekend. Link Removed