February 2013: Windows 8 market share rises slightly to 2

New month, new review of the Windows 8 numbers and our particular comparison with the output figures of the previous version of the operating system. The NetMarketShare data once again serve as a reference to verify a slight increase in the market share of Windows 8 Little by little the new system has already carved out a niche as the fourth most used system behind only previous versions of Windows.

During the month of February, Microsoft's new operating system has finished surpassing all its rivals reaching a 2, 79% market share The vast majority of that percentage, 2.67%, belongs to the desktop version of Windows 8. The touch versions of the system share the rest, with 0.10% for Windows 8 touch and just 0.02% for Windows RT, which still seems to have a hard time booting.

The new figure reached also means leaving the latest version of Mac OS X behind. In this way, all that remains from now on is to subtract the market from its previous versions to gradually replace them. Windows Vista is the first target with 5.17% of the market, but the key continues to be Windows XP and Windows 7, which accumulate more than 80% of the operating system market.

That yes, although the trend continues to be upward, in the graph you can see how the rate of growth seems to have decreased slightly This could explained by the higher sales of new equipment during the months of December and January, traditional dates of high consumption and the contraction of this during the subsequent dates.In fact, three years ago, Windows 7 also suffered a slowdown in sales for the same dates.

That being said, and repeating once again that the contexts are different for Windows 8 and Windows 7, it seems clear that the latest version continues to see a slower rate of adoption. Once the competition has been surpassed, at some point we should begin to glimpse a downward trend in the percentages of Windows XP and Windows 7, which will gradually lose ground to the new version. But Microsoft still has a lot of work to do to deal with user resistance to change

Via | NetMarketShare