Windows 7 Now Owns 20% Of Global Market Share

I don’t think I need to go into much detail at how fast Windows 7 has managed to grow since its release just over a year ago. It’s staggering to think that Microsoft managed to ship over 240 million licenses within a year of its release. This symbolic milestone for Microsoft and Windows 7 sees that it’s on just over a fifth or 20.87 % of all computers on the web.

Windows 7 has been stealing the majority of it’s market share from Windows Vista and Windows XP ever since its release. Windows Vista has fallen from nearly 18% at the beginning of 2010 to a mere 12.11 % by December. Windows XP also saw a dramatic drop from approx 66% of the market in January 2010 to 56.72% of the market by the end of the year.

However, while Windows 7 is rapidly gaining, Microsoft’s overall Windows share was down to an all time low with 90.29% of the over all market. But it didn’t lose out to Mac or Linux who both remained almost flat, no in fact it was iOS which seemed to be snatching up the market. This uptick for Apple was probably caused by the large number of iPads and iPhones purchased for the holidays.

Windows 7 had an impressive 1.2% growth rate from November to December, so these pre-Christmas figures are boding well for Microsoft. Last year Windows 7 saw a 2% jump after Christmas sales, and I’ve a feeling that this Christmas will be a similar story when those results come out at the end of this month.

I’ve no doubt that we will get more sales figures from Microsoft at CES next week, and I wouldn’t be surprised if nearly 300 million licenses had been sold by then.

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About Robert Boland: Robert is from Ireland and keen on all things tech. Not afraid to try out new software and gadgets, he also designs websites and helps with troubleshooting computers. He hopes to pursue a future career in I.T. and Business and is currently running two his own sites Techinfo-4u.com and Next iPhone News.com as well as writing for Windows7News and Connected Internet All this manages to keep him fairly busy! View posts.

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