Windows 8 continues to rise in market share while Windows 7 resists going down

One more month, Net Applications publishes the market share data of the different operating systems collected from the 160 million users of the more than 40 thousand websites that they monitor. And, one more month, the figures continue their course, with the new systems gradually making their way and old glories that still refuse to cede ground.

During the month of September, Windows 8 grew to capture 8.02% of the market Although it reduces the exceptional rate of growth of the month of August, it progressively leaves behind the rest of the operating systems of the competition.Of course, the main rival is still at home, with Windows 7 rising even more than its successor and managing to maintain 46.39% of the market.

At least the other rival of the house still to beat, Windows XP, continues to fall, experiencing a drop of more than 2 points to 31.41%. At that rate it is possible that next month we will see for the first time in a long time the old XP below 30% market share.

The one that looms with increasing intensity is Windows 8.1, which, even before it hits the market this month,It is already installed on 0.87% of computers Adding the figures of the two versions of Windows 8, the share of the new Redmond system is close at 9% and it would not be surprising if both of them end up overcoming the 10% market share barrier just one year after the release of Windows 8.

If we try to establish a comparison, during that same period of time of twelve months after its release, Windows 7 had managed to achieve 18.9% of market share.

The difference is important but, as we have commented here on more than one occasion, cannot be explained without analyzing the different contexts that surround both systemsWindows 8 has to cope with a significant slowdown in sales of personal computers and at the same time deal with other more established systems in the tablet market. It is not an easy task for the new system and we will see how the figures evolve in the coming months.

Via | The Next Web