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October 26th, 2009

Windows 7 hourly tracking

Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 10:14 am

Categories: Trends

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Net Applications has a Windows 7 hourly tracker. We’re a few days into the launch,m so how’s Microsoft’s new OS doing?

Here’s a chart of the data:

Some highlights:

  • At noon EDT on 22 Oct (launch day), Win 7 market share stood at 1.40%
  • Current peak is 2.90%, hit at 25 Oct 4:00 EDT
  • Daily peak usage occur at roughly 4:00 EDT

It’ll be interesting to keep an eye on the trend over the next few days.

[UPDATE: This data is based on live market share as measured by Net Applications. The company measures OS and browser usage by tracking the computers that visit the 40,000 sites it monitors for clients, which results in a data pool of about 160 million unique visitors per month. So the market share fluctuates based on web usage.]

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Windows 7 hourly tracking
Have you ever wanted to have a Coke background and Coke-specific sounds on your computer? How about Ferrari? Well, Microsoft has made it possible by selling "themes" for Windows 7.And i like these inovative kind of things.So windows 7 is capturing a very long part of market.... (Read the rest)
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?  savage3006 | 10/26/09
That is OK  Sagax- | 10/27/09
All the more reason ...  n0neXn0ne | 10/26/09
What's this? A "market share" number that cyclically rises and falls...  TriangleDoor | 10/26/09
What's "affuence" got to do with it?  The Mentalist | 10/26/09
You can't blame them...  Sleeper Service | 10/26/09
They don't even know what Linux is...  The Mentalist | 10/26/09
Unlike The Mentalist who is wholly unique in his affinity for Mac (nt)  ericesque | 10/26/09
Not Mac  The Mentalist | 10/26/09
My bad  ericesque | 10/26/09
Are you obsessed?  daengbo | 10/27/09
It's clearly a wrong plot / wrong inference  alokgovil | 10/26/09
I suppose that the y-axis represents...  The Mentalist | 10/26/09
RE: Windows 7 hourly tracking  chipbeef | 10/26/09
I agree.  eqpc | 10/26/09
"Few people rushed to upgrade over the weekend...  justanitguy | 10/26/09
MS not any better ...  babyboomer57 | 10/26/09
Is W7 the new religion?  mlindl | 10/26/09
It's the most popular desktop OS.  CobraA1 | 10/26/09
I'm in it to watch W7 adoption beat OS X marketshare in its first week...  ericesque | 10/26/09
Another M$ employee participating in the talkbacks huh?  The Mentalist | 10/26/09
employee? no.  ericesque | 10/26/09
That is what they do.  GuidingLight | 10/26/09
Those ABMers aren't exceedingly clever are they? That's the reason they...  The Mentalist | 10/26/09
hm. that was unfortunate.  ericesque | 10/26/09
@ericesque  Axsimulate | 10/26/09
I good.  ericesque | 10/26/09
But we have just started...  The Mentalist | 10/26/09
I want what The Mentalist is smoking. Good Stuff. (NT)  babyboomer57 | 10/26/09
@babyboomer: It's called reality...  The Mentalist | 10/26/09
@ericesque  Axsimulate | 10/27/09
Why would we squirm?  Richard Flude | 10/26/09
I'm not quite sure what I'm supposed to be enjoying...  ericesque | 10/26/09
I love it as an OS  JasonJD48 | 10/26/09
RE: Windows 7 hourly tracking  photomstr@... | 10/26/09
Anything specific? (nt)  CobraA1 | 10/26/09
Worldview data on Net Application is also interesting.  Zukuzu | 10/26/09
The true Communist OS? (nt)  Lester Young | 10/26/09
Is this tracking MS?  NStalnecker | 10/26/09
RE: Windows 7 hourly tracking  Kemis1 | 10/26/09
Oh, no! Unbeleivable!! It fell to 0%!!!  Earthling2 | 10/27/09
RE: Windows 7 hourly tracking  greene.data.recovery@... | 10/27/09
latst share volume of wind ows 7  samzbest@... | 10/27/09
RE: Windows 7 hourly tracking  greene.data.recovery@... | 10/27/09
Windows 7 hourly tracking  sotthomas | 01/25/10

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