WIN8.1/8skyrocket,surpass WINXP which plummet and outpace in growth rate win7 for first time,WIN7 reached 56.41%!WIN10 might be free for WIN8/8.1users,is this helped or XP users finally just switched?

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tak13 on 07 December 2014

Talal said:
Win 8 has an awful reputation, but 8.1 is actually pretty good in my opinion.

Unfortunately!And that's why ms announced windows 10 but all of a sudden windows8.1/8 saw a spectacular growth and leeched xps' share dramatically!

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 07 December 2014

Makes sense! Windows 8 is fast and is generally reliable OS and when windows 10 comes out in 2015, it will be the OS to have

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Makes sense! Windows 8 is fast and is generally reliable OS and when windows 10 comes out in 2015, it will be the OS to haveI

I don't know!Yeah windows 8 are suprisingly fast especially in boot up!

However windows 8.1/8 were doomed two months ago but suddenly jumped spectacularly and leeched xp share!It supposed that windows 10 has been announced because of the win8 not performing well and now might reach 30% share(510m users).Unless windows 10 announcement hurt the growth it had recently,even though it has leaked that windows10 will be free for windows8.1/8 users..

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Sentient_Nebula said:

Hardly unexpected, but hardly "skyrocketing" either.

Windows XP support ended recently, which is why it dropped 10%. Windows 7 and 8 took up the slack with about a 5% boost for each.

Yep, my dad got an email from his bank a couple of months ago that he would no longer be able to continue online banking with XP. Forced to upgrade.

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Leadified on 07 December 2014

Huh, it's a bit odd that vanilla Windows 8 has that much marketshare when 8.1 is a free update and I think quite an improvement.

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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 07 December 2014

Windows 7 is right where it needs to be. I'd rather buy Windows 10 then own Windows 8 to get it via free upgrade.

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Leadified said:
Huh, it's a bit odd that vanilla Windows 8 has that much marketshare when 8.1 is a free update and I think quite an improvement.

LOL!Yeah the 6% of windows 8 persistently refuses to jump to the update...:P

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thx1139 on 07 December 2014

LurkerJ said:
They cut its life short and cancelled promised updates. As a user of windows 8. I am not happy. Windows 10 has to be a free upgrade.

They did not. Dont spread FUD. Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 will be supported for a long time.

Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.