14 DAY TRIAL // While being no match for Windows XP, still, Windows 7 did manage to swallow its predecessor over the past month, in terms of market share. Windows Vista is no longer the second most used operating system worldwide as of the end of July 2010. According to statistics released by Net Applications, Windows 7 is now runner up to Windows XP having grown to a market share of 14.46%, which gives it a small lead over Vista which dipped to 14.34%.
“In July, Windows 7 surpassed Windows Vista in global usage share. However, Windows XP is still the leading operating system by far, with double the share of Vista and 7 combined,” Net Applications revealed.
Windows 7 jumped from 13.70% market share in June 2010 to 14.46% in July, and at least taking into consideration information from Microsoft, the operating system shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, quite to the contrary, the Redmond company revealed that in the last month alone sales of Windows 7 have accelerated past the 7 copies sold per second. It appears that the software giant managed to push as much as 10 copies of Windows 7 per second, and has already sold no less than 175 million licenses of the platform worldwide.
Meanwhile Windows Vista took a dive, and is now accounting only for 14.34% of the OS market, approximately at the same level as in November 2008, almost two years after general availability. Windows XP’s market share is also eroding rapidly, down to just 61.87% from 62.43% in the previous month. Back in October 2009, when Windows 7 hit store shelves, XP owned over 70% of the operating system market, but together with Vista, continually lost users to the latest iteration of the Windows client.
In all fairness, XP is still in the distance, continuing to dwarf all rivals, including Windows 7. However, if Microsoft manages to at least conserve Windows 7’s momentum, things are going to be a little different after Vista’s successor will celebrate its second anniversary since launch.
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