The users of Windows 7 sale is more than Windows XP sale
The senior vice president of Microsoft Steven Sinofsky in the BUILD 2011 Developers Conference revealed that as of now Windows 7 sales have reached 450 million copies, more than Windows XP sale. The Gartner believes that 42 percent of computers will be equipped with the Windows 7 operating system by the end of this year. Gartner analyst Annette Jam & P said: “The 2010 and 2011 IT budgets steadily, thus accelerating the deployment of Windows 7 in the United States and Asia-Pacific enterprise market, the fourth quarter of 2010, these regions Windows 7 to accelerate the transfer of a large scale began.” The report also pointed out that some regions due to unrest and economic downturn, Windows 7 will slow down the deployment, such as the Middle East and Japan.
Gartner believes that the end of this year, there will be 635 million units PC running windows sale 7 all over the world. Last year, Microsoft’s rival Apple also been improved, Mac OS new PC market share accounted for 4 percent of the world. According to Gartner predicts that by the end of this year will account for a new PC, Mac OS 4.5 percent in 2015, Apple Mac OS will account for 5.2 percent of the new PC. The same period, the market share of Linux operating system in the next five years will still be less than 2 percent. Gartner does not believe that Chrome operating system, Android or HP WebOS will get a lot of market share in the coming years.
According to Net Applications report, Windows sale XP operating system market share of 49.69%, is the first major operating system, followed by Windows 7, accounting for 27.92%, Windows Vista ranked third with 9.27%, Mac OS X 10.6 to 3.76% ranked fourth. Windows 7 was launched in October 2009, has sold 400 million copies.