Vista approaching OSX in terms of market share
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Microsoft’s newest operating system, Vista is approaching OSX in terms of market share. This should come as no surprise since there are millions on millions more PCs than there are Macs but still, Vista is now installed on at least 5% of PCs meaning it is only 1% away from topping OSX and only 1.1% away from passing it.
Though things are not all good with Vista as XP is still sold, many OEMs are receiving requests from customers that Vista be erased off the computer and replaced with XP, which is a headache in and of its own right. Windows XP is still quite popular having dropped from from 84.33 percent in February to 81.94 percent in June.
Many people are simply avoiding Vista while I would say that consumers looking at a new system won’t have much of a choice and that’s fine, the newer and faster the hardware, the better, Vista likes new and fast. New because there are not likely to be driver or software conflicts and fast because Vista is somewhat of a resource hog.
Most companies are just going to hold off on Vista until SP1 comes out for it which could be well, before the end of the world.
All in all, things look good for Vista and things will look even better next year when Microsoft stops shipping Windows XP completely, then you will have no choice but to buy a Vista based computer or install Linux. Face it, you aren’t going to get any serious work done on a Linux box, at least, not professional work as all professional applications are written and supported on, you guessed it, Windows.
Regarding Vista, many are slightly disappointed with it including Acer president Gianfranco Lanci who said, “the whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista,” in an interview with the German edition of the Financial Times.
Personally, I’m not disappointed with Vista, if you have the hardware to run it, it is a nice operating system but still has a few kinks to work out and those few kinks will keep Vista adoption from spreading as fast as it should but it is still in a good position, not great but good.
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“This should come as no surprise since there are millions on millions more PCs than there are Macs but still, Vista is now installed on at least 5% of PCs meaning it is only 1% away from topping OSX and only 1.1% away from passing it.”
It shouldn come as no surprise either that Vista is not the only OS on this planet you can install on a PC.
“Though things are not all good with Vista as XP is still sold, many OEMs are receiving requests from customers that Vista be erased off the computer and replaced with XP, which is a headache in and of its own right.”
I would be very interested to know your definition of “many”.
“Many people are simply avoiding Vista while I would say that consumers looking at a new system won’t have much of a choice and that’s fine, the newer and faster the hardware, the better, Vista likes new and fast. New because there are not likely to be driver or software conflicts and fast because Vista is somewhat of a resource hog.”
I’m writing this on a 3+ year old Toshiba Satellite A60-122 laptop with Vista Business installed and it is running smoothly (actually slightly faster than XP Home did) and with no hardware conflicts whatsoever. Vista is only a hardware-conflict-prone OS with old unknown devices and only a resource hog when configured to its best appearance.
“Most companies are just going to hold off on Vista until SP1 comes out for it which could be well, before the end of the world.”
Now this is what I call professionalism, when I know SP1 will most probably be released in the end of the year and you (the journalist) don’t.
“Face it, you aren’t going to get any serious work done on a Linux box, at least, not professional work as all professional applications are written and supported on, you guessed it, Windows.”
Another way of saying that (one that you and others probably don’t like as much) is that you won’t get anything done on a Linux box because it doesn’t run almost anything, unlike a Windows box (and I think compatibility is somewhat important, wouldn’t you say?).
“Regarding Vista, many are slightly disappointed with it including Acer president Gianfranco Lanci who said, “the whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista,†in an interview with the German edition of the Financial Times.”
I’m even more interested in knowing your definition of “many” now and yes, I think Acer president can speak for all the industry, including companies like Intel and HP that are making millions thanks to Vista.
“Personally, I’m not disappointed with Vista, if you have the hardware to run it, it is a nice operating system but still has a few kinks to work out and those few kinks will keep Vista adoption from spreading as fast as it should but it is still in a good position, not great but good.”
Faster or slower, it’s just a matter of time until 90+% of computer users are using Vista.