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The pundit is blowing it a little out of proportion no? Mac OS market share is still tiny compared to Windows. And a lot of switchers still run Windows by dual
by slantyyz 17y ago
The pundit is blowing it a little out of proportion no? Mac OS market share is still tiny compared to Windows. And a lot of switchers still run Windows by dual booting or in a VM.
Title might be better as "Is Windows 7 finally convincing XP users that they're not upgrading to a version of Windows that doesn't suck?"
- barnaby 17y agoThe article isn't about existing marketshare, it's about the trend in how that marketshare is changing. This is the first time in a LONG time that Windows isn't losing marketshare to Mac and Linux. That's a fact. The speculative part here is Why. Is it that Windows 7 doesn't suck? For all we know, Microsoft could have a new ad campaign, or had bought a sales lead sheet made of gold. Time will tell, but I predict this is not a permanent reversal in the longstanding trend.
- sjs 17y agoAs someone who ditched Windows XP for OS X, Linux, or any other Unix, I tried Vista SP1 and it was very solid. Windows is slowly getting better. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 7 was actually pretty good. It doesn't solve the lack of a good command line, unix development tools, or a package manager, but most users don't care about such things. They just want to surf the web without crashing or getting viruses. If I only used my computer for an hour or two a day, say to listen to music and go on Facebook, then Windows 7 would surely be good enough. I doubt I would look for an alternative OS.
- matwood 17y agoI use win7 in a VM on OSX in order to do my day job. Prior to that I was using XP. I tried Vista, but resource wise it was horrible. Win7 stays out the way for the most part and it works - a lot like XP. Am I going to switch back? No, but you're right that for most users win7 is just fine.