CWmike writes "Windows 7 cracked the 20% share mark last month, a milestone the problem-plagued Vista never reached, Web measurement vendor Net Application said over the weekend. Gregg Keizer reports that Windows 7's online usage share reached 20.9% in December, up 1.2 percentage points from the...
Computerworld - 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.
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Windows 7 is now running on one-fifth of the world's computers, but still significantly trails Microsoft's most-used operating system: Windows XP.
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Both iOS and Windows 7 were the winners for share of the web, Net Applications found in its December wrap-up. Thanks mostly to an equal mix of the iPad and iPhone, Apple's mobile platform reached 1.69 percent in December, up a relative 24.3 percent from a month earlier. Android's growth rate was...
The year 2010 ended quite well for two products from Microsoft and Google, at least when it comes to specific market share numbers. Windows 7 passed the 20 percent mark while Chrome almost reached double digits. Despite IE8's strong growth and the IE9 beta program, Internet Explorer has hit a...
Few days ago on Neowin posted that Windows 7 Market share has just reached 25% in the first 14 months since it's release. Windows XP has once again slipped down and this time much lower slide that before, XP has lost 8% since last time bringing it down to 50% with Windows Vista following XP in a...
Google's Android is winning global platforms, slowly but surely, following similar growth patterns to its US takeover. Following its unprecedented triumph over Microsoft’s Window Phone 7 in Europe, Android is expected to win out for 2011, according to research firm, IDC. This is in part due to...
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Earlier this year Nvidia Corp. merged chipset and system-on-chip development teams in order to strengthen the Tegra product line. On Thursday chief executive officer of Nvidia officially said that the company was no longer building chipsets, which probably...
Consumers and business customers are moving past Windows XP and Windows Vista, with Microsoft noting that Windows 7’s adoption rate is through the roof.
The Redmond company even has the numbers to prove it, with Rich Reynolds, general manager of Windows Commercial Product Marketing at...
While Windows 7 is running on only one out of every 10 PCs at North American and European businesses,that percentage will grow considerably in the coming year, according to a new report from...
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Microsoft Windows 7's market share expands, while Mac OS X faces slight decline, finds a NetMarketShare survey. Compare your salary Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know the average salary differences between different job functions. Join activeTechPros. Link Removed
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Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, has been out for about a year. What better way for Microsoft to celebrate than by revealing sales numbers for the OS. Windows 7 has sold 240 million licenses in its first year , enough to give it a 17% global market share. There are also 1.2...
Windows 7, the Microsoft operating system that couldn’t help but wipe away the sour taste of many Windows Vista complaints, is one year old around about today (give or take a day). Microsoft’s official line is that they’ve sold 240 million Windows 7 licences, that it’s running on 93 per cent of...
Can you believe it's only been a year since Windows 7 hit the market? So much has happened in the interim, we could swear it's been a decade. Of course, Microsoft is celebrating Windows 7's birthday the best way it knows how: sales numbers. Turns out the little OS has done pretty well for...
By Tim Conneally, Betanews
It's been one year since Windows 7 launched to the world, and to celebrate the passing of the year, Microsoft has released some information about the milestones Windows 7 has passed.
Most importantly among them, Microsoft announced that 240 million Windows 7 licenses...
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