At what point will there be more Win7 desktops than XP + Vista out there?

[VirtualLarry]

Just curious. Does anyone have any recent numbers? Or has Win7 already surpassed both of its prior versions?

 

[nemesismk2]

I would like to know this too, if you go by users of computer forums then windows 7 is very popular.

 

[WT]

if you go by users of computer forums then windows 7 is very popular.

Whoa, we are definitely in the minority there ... throwing out a number here, but probably 9 out of 10 people are not PC geeks.

I don't think its even close with all of the XP installs still running these days. I work on a good number and I just started seeing Vista/Win 7 infected PCs in the past 6 months.

 

[handyrandyrc]

Steam does statistics on what their users have installed on their computers. It's obviously slanted towards types who use games (have Steam loaded). But the trend is fairly clear:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

 

[abaez]

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-US-monthly-201005-201105

Win7 just become #1 in the U.S. So not anytime soon.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201005-201105

Worldwide.

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215681/Windows_7_share_tops_XP_for_first_time_in_U.S.


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[nemesismk2]

going by that article and stats from above, it looks like windows 7 will be overtaking Windows XP sometime early 2012 unless windows 8 is released then and everyone decides to get windows 8 instead.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Don't get me wrong, I like Win 7 a lot, and I have converted all of my home machines, with the exception of an old laptop from 2005, over to Win7. I was just curious whether XP was still holding on strong or not.