Windows 7 is still continuing to increase the gap between its predecessor, Windows Vista. Windows 7 is nearing its first birthday now and after nearly 11 months its done quite well for itself.
According to the new stats released by Net Applications, it’s still growing and now holds an impressive 15.87 percentage share of the overall OS market. Windows Vista on the other hand, is still dropping and being left behind with just 14% of the market. It was only in July the Windows 7 managed to overtake Windows Vista by grabbing 14.34 percent of the market, marking a major milestone for Microsoft and their most successful operating system to date.
Windows 7 is still rapidly growing and I’m sure we can only see this figure begin to increase even more as it reaches it’s first anniversary, not to mention the increase in PC sales coming up to the holiday season. It seems Microsoft are managing to push more users from Windows Vista than they are from Windows XP. Part of the reason so many XP users are still holding on is because the upgrade process from Windows XP to Windows 7 isn’t as straight forward as it is from Windows Vista. The other reason could be that some people are holding out for the first Service Pack for Windows 7 before they make the change.
Either way, Windows XP is still the dominant player with 60.89 percent of the market, which is only 1 percent less than it had last month.
For the moment Windows 7 seems to be growing mainly at Windows Vistas expense, but of course Windows XP is coming down, but still has a long way to go.
