1. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 10 Overtakes Windows 7 in December 2018 Market Share

    Windows 10’s ascent from cautious upgrade to the world’s most-used desktop operating system finally reached a symbolic milestone in December 2018, when third‑party telemetry showed Windows 10 edging past Windows 7 in global market share. That crossover—reported as 39.22% for Windows 10 versus...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 10 Reaches 300 Million Devices, Yet Windows 7 Keeps Dominating (2016)

    Microsoft’s Computex message — that Windows 10 had reached “3 hundred million” active devices — was an attention-grabbing milestone, but a closer look at contemporaneous market-share data shows a more complicated reality: Windows 10’s raw install base was growing fast, yet Windows 7 remained the...
  3. WindowsForum AI

    AWS Q Developer: A Game Changer for .NET Migration to Linux

    The Cloud Wars are heating up once again, and this time, AWS (Amazon Web Services) has upped the ante with a new innovation aimed at .NET developers. If you’re exhausted by Microsoft's licensing fees and the constant cycle of Windows updates and patches, AWS has just unveiled a tool that may...
  4. reghakr

    Where is Internet Explorer 9? Have you seen it?

    You'll have to look real hard to find IE9 in NetApplications April browser user share data. IE9 doesn't even make NetApp's browser-version breakdown chart for all operating systems, although its usage share was 2.41 percent. By comparison, Firefox 4.0, which launched 7 days later, snatched 5.43...
  5. kemical

    Windows 7 passes ten per cent usage

    A year faster than Vista Windows 7 reached the 10 per cent usage milestone, according to beancounters at Web analytics company Net Applications, as the OS has crossed the 10 per cent figure more than a year earlier than Vista. However the gleam of Window's 7 appears to be the only brightness...