XP Loses Ground, Windows 7 Keeps Growing in November Statistics

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 1:53 pm

Need proof that Windows 7 represents a significant improvement over Vista? Just take a peek at the nearest XP users, or maybe we should say former XP user. According to data by web metrics company Net Applications, XP usage dropped in November by 1.45 percent.

Vista's share only dropped by 0.2 percent, which is indicative of a much lower market share altogether. By the end of the month, OS usage numbers sat at 69.03 percent for XP, 18.6 percent for Vista, and 3.98 percent for Windows 7, which was released to the general public on October 22nd. Not a bad start.

Mac OS X usage was also slightly down, dropping 0.16 percent to 5.11 percent. That's the third time this year Mac has given given up market share. Meanwhile, Linux climbed to a 1 percent usage share in November, the highest it's been since July.

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