The market share tracking firm Net Applications have made it known: Windows 7 grew past 3% market share, and on a weekend day no less.
With Windows 7 moving past the three percent mark, it is quickly running towards surpassing OSX. The popular, quality, and wonderful OSX has been growing, and now sits at 5.27% total market share. Given the trend in the direction of Windows 7, it seems that in short order Windows 7 will overtake Mac entirely.
This is hardly a surprise, given how well received the operating system was, and the much larger total Windows install base. But it does attest to the fact that the hype that technorati gave to Win7 has indeed translated to actual sales of the software.
Most interesting is that the Win7 in fact first broke the 3% market share on a weekend day, which says quite a bit. Windows tends to do better on weekdays, when the working masses are at their desks using outlook. OSX tends to excel on weekends when people get home and boot up the Mac. Windows 7 broke the 3% mark on a Saturday, Halloween no less.
Expect Windows 7 to grow past the total OSX install base sometime in the next two months, if not before.
I want to make it plain, that I am not attempting to denigrate OSX. I merely want to point out that Windows 7 is doing quite well, and will soon be more popular than the install base of all the OSX versions.
Alex, please start writing for an other blog instead of saying sorry everytime you write something “positive” about windows.
Why is everyone acting so surprised? XP and Vista with more than 90% of market share I’m shocked and disappointed that Win 7 didn’t ran over 10% mark in the first weekend considering the money spent on marketing.
Oh yes and why do people always pull Net Applications? Please, they are not a real metric, not even for trends..
Oh and Alex I really like yur posts but please lay off the “fanboi” Mac vs PC routine it’s old.
Great observation. I made the same observation after I realized the desire people have for Windows 7 and the idea that it runs faster than Vista and much lighter as well.
OSX is equally a great software but in terms of market share I tip Windows 7 to take the lead.
I’m an Apple fan, and even I didn’t think you were denigrating Mac OS X.
In fact, I think some of the best proof that Vista was a failure is how long it took it (relatively speaking) to exceed Mac OS X at anything. Windows 7 appears to be blowing past all that, and it’s not hard to see why. Good for Microsoft.
Hahah, well, I have been on the receiving end of so much fanboy vitriol that indeed I couch my posts somewhat in shrugging.
I’ll lay off it, thanks for the tip, and for reading.
Thanks Egan. I guess I cover my ass some because when I do not, people accost me of bias, etc. I’ll try and cut it down, though.
Thanks for reading.