Windows 7 Usage Outpaces Vista, Closes In on Mac
There’s a new sign Windows 7 is off to a strong start: Web surfers have started moving to the operating system much more quickly than they did its troubled predecessor, Windows Vista.
A new research report says Windows 7 on Saturday surpassed 4 percent of all devices visiting Web sites that day, a little over two weeks after the commercial launch of the product. It took Windows Vista, in contrast, about seven months to pass 4 percent after it was introduced to businesses in November 2006, according to the report from Net Applications, a firm that tracks online usage.
The report doesn’t measure traditional sales market share for computers, counting instead the types of operating systems and other software used by people visiting a network of more than 40,000 Web sites around the globe.
