Windows 8 breakthrough !

MrBlobby · 2 Jul 2013 at 19:38

It's now more popular than Windows Vista woohoo!

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201206-201307

Interestingly Linux use has almost gone 60% since window8 was launched

PapaLazaru · 2 Jul 2013 at 19:48

Maybe everyone has stopped throwing their toys out of the pram, sat down and actually started learning their way round it and have realised it is actually bloody good.

Macro · 2 Jul 2013 at 19:49

MrBlobby said:
Interestingly Linux use has almost gone 60% since window8 was launched

27 people using now then?

Elevon · 2 Jul 2013 at 19:50

MrBlobby said:
It's now more popular than Windows Vista woohoo!

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201206-201307

Interestingly Linux use has almost gone 60% since window8 was launched

Means nothing,look at me for example I use both Win8 and Linux distros

.FYI I went to Linux back in the WinXP days.

theheyes · 2 Jul 2013 at 20:07

I think a better measure of popularity is the Steam hardware survey which has a much more discerning (or should I say, discriminating) population. Windows 8 is north of 12% on that community.

It's plodding along nicely. It will be interesting to see whether the release of 8.1 triggers a spike or acceleration in adoption, or the graph just remains unrelentingly linear as it has been since launch.

Glaucus · 2 Jul 2013 at 20:33

As well as gamers, being pretty much the only group left that regularly upgrade.

bledd · 3 Jul 2013 at 10:56

Vista is diabolical to use compared to W7 and W8. I prefer using XP over Vista. It has a weird clunky slow feeling about it.

d_brennen · 3 Jul 2013 at 11:06

bledd. said:
Vista is diabolical to use compared to W7 and W8. I prefer using XP over Vista. It has a weird clunky slow feeling about it.

7 is just Vista in a nice party dress, you know? I have no problems with either. CBA with 8 at the moment and no sign we will roll it out at work for the foreseeable future. The only thing that might prompt me to move to 8 will be HSA features, if it's a requirement and if any HSA stuff ends up being worthwhile

Elevon · 3 Jul 2013 at 11:12

bledd. said:
Vista is diabolical to use compared to W7 and W8. I prefer using XP over Vista. It has a weird clunky slow feeling about it.

I actually prefered Vista over XP and Linux over XP

,Vista was a solid OS for me.

My rules are simple , never listen to FUD and try the OS in question myself for a good period of time.

panyan · 3 Jul 2013 at 11:15

PapaLazaru said:
Maybe everyone has stopped throwing their toys out of the pram, sat down and actually started learning their way round it and have realised it is actually bloody good.

My thoughts exactly

Elevon · 3 Jul 2013 at 11:19

PapaLazaru said:
Maybe everyone has stopped throwing their toys out of the pram, sat down and actually started learning their way round it and have realised it is actually bloody good.

That's the problem average user wants to be spoon fed,old days on DOS you had no choice but to get stuck in and learn commands and how to do things,nowadays it's so damn easy but they still complain or find it hard,sad times indeed :rolleyes:

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ubersonic · 3 Jul 2013 at 11:30

PapaLazaru said:
Maybe everyone has stopped throwing their toys out of the pram, sat down and actually started learning their way round it and have realised it is actually bloody good.

This, exact same as when XP was released and everyone claimed they would never use it

Raumarik · 3 Jul 2013 at 11:30

PapaLazaru said:
Maybe everyone has stopped throwing their toys out of the pram, sat down and actually started learning their way round it and have realised it is actually bloody good.

+1

Although I still avoid metro most of the time, there's nothing wrong with the rest of the OS, just really the metro e-mail app lol

413x · 3 Jul 2013 at 12:49

Windows 8 is likely only going up due to it coming as standard

If people had the choice I still expect most would choose 7

I would personally

Raumarik · 3 Jul 2013 at 13:25

al4x said:
Windows 8 is likely only going up due to it coming as standard

If people had the choice I still expect most would choose 7

I would personally

Care to elaborate without using either the start button (coming shortly) or the metro interface which you can avoid entirely by tapping windows+D

Other than that I can't think of a single reason not to be on Windows 8 and I'm a fan of Windows 7.

james_2k · 3 Jul 2013 at 13:36

exactly. aside from the start button whats the difference.

theheyes · 3 Jul 2013 at 13:39

There is some rationale in the sense that customers will choose what is familiar or is a known quantity. People seem to forget how many took up the Windows 7 to XP downgrade option in the early days.

Raumarik · 3 Jul 2013 at 13:42

Spot on with your comment about people downgrading Win 7 actually theheyes, forgot how popular that was initially.

linktoinsanity · 3 Jul 2013 at 13:50

d_brennen said:
7 is just Vista in a nice party dress, you know? I have no problems with either. CBA with 8 at the moment and no sign we will roll it out at work for the foreseeable future. The only thing that might prompt me to move to 8 will be HSA features, if it's a requirement and if any HSA stuff ends up being worthwhile

Nope, Windows 7 is Vista with a lot of nice tweaks which accumulate into being a decent OS. I've had numerous computers running into problems when running Vista which haven't come up in Windows 7.

Vista had some good ideas and was a revolutionary step forwards when it came out, but unfortunately it was pretty slow on a lot of hardware which ran XP perfectly fine and later ran Windows 7 fine. Go figure.

With regards to Windows 8 being more popular than Vista? Not a surprise. Once you get past the Start Screen and lack of start Menu, other changes Windows 8 brings over 7 are pretty good. Unfortunately however I like my Start Menu.

Elevon · 3 Jul 2013 at 14:23

linktoinsanity said:
Nope, Windows 7 is Vista with a lot of nice tweaks which accumulate into being a decent OS. I've had numerous computers running into problems when running Vista which haven't come up in Windows 7.

Vista had some good ideas and was a revolutionary step forwards when it came out, but unfortunately it was pretty slow on a lot of hardware which ran XP perfectly fine and later ran Windows 7 fine. Go figure.

With regards to Windows 8 being more popular than Vista? Not a surprise. Once you get past the Start Screen and lack of start Menu, other changes Windows 8 brings over 7 are pretty good. Unfortunately however I like my Start Menu.

Win7 only offered slight speed increase and less UAC nagging as far I was concerned,infact it offered little over Vista for me feature wise (use both from day one and both were solid)at least Win8 was more of real upgrade ie lots of changes and improvements,Win7 followed same rehash of Win95 etc.. with a few extras and everybody thought it was new.

I do hope they don't go back to Win95/7 UI but keep moving forward with changes /improvements,end of the day different view points etc...