The April numbers are in!

They’re here! The numbers for April 2016! And…

Windows 7 still tops the list, but it has finally dropped below half, with 48.79% of all computers.

Windows 10 is #2, with 14.35%. That’s an increase of .2% (That’s not too good).

XP is at 9.66%

Every version of Mac OS X combined is 9.19%. This is a 1.41% increase over last month, making OS X the fastest-growing operating system of April.

8.1 is at is 9.16%

Windows 8 is at 2.95%. Between them, 8 and 8.1 outnumber all Macs combined.

Windows NT is at 2.54%

At 1.56%, Linux is still ahead of Windows Vista at 1.34% Why are people still using Vista? If your machine is powerful enough, Vista works well. Not as well as 7 or 8, but on a powerful enough machine it works well.

I suspect that the statement that Windows 3.1 is at .4% is a misprint. The numbers add up correctly, but 3.1 hasn’t made the list in a long time.

And Windows 2000 is at .03%.

89.25% of all machines use some version of Windows.

Yeah, NetMarketShare has been horribly wrong for a very long time.

XP is not at 9% by any other comparison, unless you're counting china, and even then i'd doubt it. XP's share has been well under 2% for a long time.

Every time I read an article on what OS is on top, all I can think of is so what. . .we all use the one we like the best regardless of what is posted in the latest poles. . .:)

This looks like a more realistic version of events comparing February to April:



From analytics.usa.gov | The US government's web traffic. (windows.csv download for OS data)

Vince Massi said:

At 1.56%, Linux is still ahead of Windows Vista at 1.34% Why are people still using Vista? If your machine is powerful enough, Vista works well. Not as well as 7 or 8, but on a powerful enough machine it works well.

I suspect many on here wont know about the major problems that Vista users have been experiencing for the last 9 months or so, beginning with Augusts updates. The problem is near lock up of Vista machines when checking for updates with CPU and RAM usage pegged at maximum. Unconfirmed rumours blame Microsoft for diverting server resources away from Vista. Whatever the reason, I too can confirm the problem is real. Update checks can take anything from 3 to 6 hours to complete. Nobody knew what was going on at first, but then all the reports and clues came flooding in.

windows update just seems to hang while checking.

I have to say, that if you can run it, Vista looks good, compared to everything else. If Microsoft ever made a classic automobile - it was Vista, and like many classics, it is a gas-guzzler!

That said, looks aren't everything, and 10 is shaping up nicely as a performance engine - which it should do - being constantly under real-world testing.

Mystere said:

Yeah, NetMarketShare has been horribly wrong for a very long time.

XP is not at 9% by any other comparison, unless you're counting china, and even then i'd doubt it. XP's share has been well under 2% for a long time.

Hi there @Mystere --there's still some very good reasons why XP is still being used ---particularly as VM's. There's still a huge amount of very expensive Lab / Medical /Engineering type hardware out there which is incredibly expensive to replace and has long life times --for example some heavy manufacturing control tools might last 40 years or more and cost hundreds of thousand of dollars to replace. The original manufacturers may long have stopped making the equipment, gone out of business or been taken over by somebody else so newer drivers etc won't be available.

I agree though there's not a lot of reason for home users to run it (unless like hobbyists they just want to run some old OS'es for nostalgia).

As far as China is concerned - I'm sure if they want W10 they won't have any difficulty sourcing it . !!!

@Fafhrd -- VISTA's AERO Glass theme was brilliant compared to the (IMO Geeky teenish looking) "Game of Thrones" type themes you see on todays laptops (of course this is a personal thing though). You can get near enough AERO GLASS type themes though on LINUX distros - KDE PLASMA is good and Linux mint has some decent themes too if this is your type of desktop.

BTW as Gas is reasonably cheap these days (apart from UK where not only is the tax HUGE -they even swindle consumers by adding VAT ON TOP OF THE TAX - which is against EU Rules --VAT is to be levied on PRICE of article not on top of PRICE + EXCISE DUTY !!!) - what's wrong with a bit of "Gas Guzzling" --environmentally done of course -- in a great looking motor. Who needs to drive around in a hideous looking tiny electric bubble that looks like a fairground dodgem.

(Slightly OT -- but be interesting to see if UK citizens vote for "BREXIT" - will they abandon the hated VAT and go back to Purchase tax -- I think not somehow !!!)

Cheers
jimbo

XP has probably bottomed out like Vista and 8.0, and will linger on with the surviving hardware that supports it. When that is no longer easily renewable it will disappear into some black hole, invisible to the rest of the Internet, but I bet there will still be hardware running it 20 years from today, doing some tasks that nobody will know how to write the software for, using modern technology of that age. I bet some managers have stockpiles of motherboards, processors and memory for exactly that contingency.

VAT has hardly ever been touted as reason for leaving the EU zone in the current referendum, but It would have plenty of support amongst consumers here - especially to lose the %age paid to Brussels.

Fafhrd said:

XP has probably bottomed out like Vista and 8.0, and will linger on with the surviving hardware that supports it. When that is no longer easily renewable it will disappear into some black hole, invisible to the rest of the Internet, but I bet there will still be hardware running it 20 years from today, doing some tasks that nobody will know how to write the software for, using modern technology of that age. I bet some managers have stockpiles of motherboards, processors and memory for exactly that contingency.

VAT has hardly ever been touted as reason for leaving the EU zone in the current referendum, but It would have plenty of support amongst consumers here - especially to lose the %age paid to Brussels.

Hi there

I was on a renewable Energy project in Iceland recently which involved some serious heavy digging / mechanical hardware / gas analysis etc etc -- to get some of the gear ready for site and to do some "Live Testing" - we needed to source a few XP Machines !!!! - including scouring a local Tip for chuck outs.

Apart from old Dinosaurs like me - there were very few engineers on site who had any idea of how to commission this stuff -- and some of their software skills were quite Scary -- more suitable for Mobile phones etc than drilling and then moving and analysing cubic metres of rubble etc etc !!!!.,

Your scenario of "reserve gear in storage" is not as strange as it sounds -- I shudder to think what happens when Engineers of my vintage come up to retirement !!!

Cheers
jimbo