Windows7 just passed XP in August. Wow, what a record!

Don't want to link to CNN but they have the article if you google it.

With the new kudos for W7, we're now looking at 42.76% for W7 and 42.42% for XP and including Vista, 92% market share for Microsoft (4.83% for the Mac). These are total market; not Logos as has already been discussed.

But the significance for planning purposes is the '11 years'. Assuming Microsoft doesn't something nutty, good old Libronix (on W7-32) and of course Logos4 are going be nice and comfy for a long while.

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Mark Smith

With the new kudos for W7, we're now looking at 42.76% for W7 and 42.42% for XP and including Vista, 92% market share for Microsoft (4.83% for the Mac). These are total market; not Logos as has already been discussed.

These numbers point out how stable XP is and how its features meet so many peoples' needs. Why change if what you have works, and esp. if it has lower resources requirements? (I suspect the % of business computers running XP is much higher than this 42.42%.)

I'm grateful for Win 7 (over Vista) and being able to have a 64-bit operating system. W8 doesn't look like something I'll be interested in.

Donovan R. Palmer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/393727#Comment_393727

We still use XP on our network at our place of work. As far as a no nonsense OS, it did the job and did it reasonably well. That being said, we will be moving to W7 before long. Not so much because it doesn't do what we want anymore, but rather the support is ending.

Paul Golder

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/393764#Comment_393764

Were still 80% XP at work, but that it changing as we replace worn hardware. Can't really justify the time and money it would take to retrofit new machines with an old OS.

To its credit. Win 7 is quite reliable, and I'm sure that after everyone gets the bugs out of the next Windows beta (Win 8) that Windows 9 will work well too.