Staggering adoption of Win7 by Steam users!

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Kudistos Megistos on 25 January 2010

TRios_Zen said:

Chairman-Mao said:
Does Windows 7 have more marketshare then Apple computers?

Here's some interesting numbers for that discussion; looks like it will shortly, if it hasn't already.

That's from two moths ago, when 7 was only a month old. I think it's almost certain that 7 has gone way past Mac OS by now.

EDIT:

According to marketshare.hitslink.com, 7 has now overtaken all Mac OS versions combined (but not by as much as I thought)

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heruamon on 25 January 2010

In 3 months...these numbers for Win7 are great.

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CommonMan on 25 January 2010

Seven is so much better than Vista. That is all.

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nordlead on 25 January 2010

Kudistos Megistos said:

heruamon said:

nordlead said:
something seems wrong. According to the charts

Vista 32-bit = 20.71%
Vista 64-bit = 10.00%
total = 30.71%

7 32-bit = 7.45%
7 64-bit = 15.61%
total = 23.06%

? what's wrong?

It undermines the "best" part because it means that 7 actually hasn't overtaken Vista yet.

Also, look at the ratio of 64 to 32 bit users O_O

64-bit capable processors have been very common for a while now, so I wonder whether it's because most of the people with Vista got it when they bought a pre-built system (many of which have 32-bit OSs) whereas nearly everyone with 7 "acquired" it separately. Also, I wonder whether this increase of 64-bit users applies to 7 generally, rather than just steam users. I hope it does...

yea, I was wondering if maybe I was reading the charts wrong, but it looks like they only looked at 32-bit Vista.