Like it or not, Vista use keeps growing

Posted by Vic Laurie
October 26, 2007

People may grouse all they want about Vista, but the Microsoft near-monopoly rolls on. Technical types and power users may talk about Linux or the Mac or keeping XP but when the average PC user buys a new computer, it comes with Vista. Go into a computer store and all you see are Vista systems. Whether Vista is good, bad, or indifferent is irrelevant. Microsoft’s lock on the PC may have loosened slightly but it’s still in a position that other companies can only dream of. Microsoft’s latest earnings report shows a healthy increase and over 88 million copies of Vista sold so far. And once SP1 arrives, many businesses are likely to adopt Vista.

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Over the last 30 days, platforms of the visitors to the Ewing SeniorNet web site were as follows:

1 Windows XP 7,136 89%
2 Windows 2000 170 2%
3 Mac OS X 129 2%
4 Windows Vista 127 2%
5 Unknown 109 1%
6 Linux 105 1%
7 Windows 98 91 1%

Comment by joelmay on October 27, 2007 @ 9:30 am

Thanks for the statistics, Joel. Apparently our senior group is not rushing to get Vista. FWIW, statistics for this blog in the same time period are XP 87% and Vista 9%. Clearly, people are not upgrading large numbers of existing XP systems to Vista (for good reasons). However, as time goes on and new systems are bought, Vista will inexorably be on more and more systems.

Comment by Vic on October 27, 2007 @ 10:25 am

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