Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X vs. Linux - for the Last Time in 2007
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At the end of 2007 one thing is clear... Windows Vista is far from the Wow revelation that Microsoft aimed for with the late January worldwide consumer launch.
With Windows XP having dug in its roots from 2001 until early 2007, and owning the lion's share of the operating system market (more than 85%), Vista enjoyed, as well as the alternative operating systems such as Mac OS X and Linux, little elbow room. Still, while Mac OS X and Linux are growing on a niche eroding small portions from under XP, Vista had to go head to head against its predecessor. And in this context, what initially appeared as a case of natural evolution from XP to Vista proved to be a complex ballet that saw the latest Windows client grow its foothold on the operating system market at a steady but slow pace. This situation generated criticism that simply added to the mixed reviews associated with Vista, downplaying the last Windows iteration. And even if Microsoft constantly labored to focus users on Vista, XP did manage to steal a part of the show.
With one month to go until the first year anniversary since Vista hit the shelves, XP is still a long way from falling to the 2nd position on the operating system market. According to data from Net Applications, at the beginning of December 2007, Vista was at 9.19% of the market. In just 10 months Vista has gone from 0.18% to over 9%, moving past Mac OS X and Linux. The percentage reflects Microsoft claims from October that there were approximately 90 million licenses of the operating system shipped into the channel. Microsoft failed to provide additional details about Vista's performance in terms of adoption since October, but with the holiday shopping frenzy, the platform is bound to go past the 100 million sold copies worldwide, even if the Redmond company will count all the licenses pushed to its channel partners as well.
Mac OS X, without a competitor for Vista, as Leopard dropped at the end of October, increased its market share by piggyback ridding on Apple Mac computers. At the end of November, the Cupertino-based company accounted for no less than 6.80% of the operating system market. The open source Linux operating system also had a good evolution in 2007. The various Linux distributions have almost doubled the platform's market share taking it up almost to 0.6%. Linux might be still stuck in the position of the indisputable underdog in comparison to its rivals, but with increasing support from OEMs such as Dell, at least the main distros, including Red Hat, SUSE from Novell and Ubuntu from Canonical, have the potential of going mainstream.
Of course, the statistics painting the overall picture of the operating system market are varying in accordance with the different mechanisms applied by metrics companies. Data made available by W3Counter puts Windows XP at 80.62% of the market, compared with Net Applications' 78.37%, and Vista at just 4.74%, at the end of November. Mac OS X is at 4.56% while Linux is credited with 1.77%.
Still, reading between the lines, the overall situation is the same with XP in the lead, Vista as runner up and Mac OS X and Linux trailing behind. 2008 will only accentuate the gap between Vista and its followers as SP1 will be released in the first quarter, while at the same time, closing the distance that separates it from XP.
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Comments(19)
comparing to vista xp is better fast.so xp sp 3 is best.
xp sucks. i used it once in my brand new, quad core, 88000 gts 640 3 gigs of ram ddr2 and
500 gigs of hard drive computer, and it was even slower than vista in some areas + vista
is much more appealing
i hated vista at the start but now that my spec is decent enough to run it i can see its
benefitsmore including aero which is acytually useful. things like search are much better
built in than added with software
you are tow damn big idiots who diserve to be kiked. vista is a joke thats it and by the
way i have match more stranger specification than yours idiots
what a dumb ass!!!!
vista rocks! xp is for idiots!
vista is c00l! better os!
it's an operaing system you twats. its the applications that count at the end of the day
and f all you can do is bitch over an o.s. it shows you do piss all with the pc you have!
why not gorw up, get yourslef a girlfriend or pull your puddin a bit more and grow up. ffs
aside from the obvious that vista blows away xp... now this site is throwing full screen
pop-ups for myprofilepimp(.)com ? as if the copy & paste articles werent bad enough?
xp will soon die when quad-core is in full effect. applications and games using quads
will take out any xp scenario. xp is almost dead, just admit that you people are too broke
or cheap to buy decent hardware for it. move on already.
y cant ppl learn??or did the 6 year gap make you all forget?
almost everything is
the same as when xp came out!!those who had xp compatible hardware were pleased with xp
and those who dint bitched about it!!well after sp2 almost every1 had the upgraded to xp
systems and it became the os we loved!!
as soon as every1's hardware catches up
with vista's recomendations,we'll be ready to bitch about by saying vista is the best
windows 7 s|_|cks!!its happened before,its happening now & it will happen again!!
the rest??! in the dust
it's nice to see vista supports rather than bashers. i must say, on my older system is
was sluggish, but once i build a new computer it ran much nicer and it was pretty damn
comparable to xp. both a nice os's, but for different eras.
as for the actual
article itself, i'm really glad linux is finally coming to the mainstream, it needs the
attention. hopefully drivers (read: fully functional) will open up some more peripherals
and devices. it's an awesome time for computers right now. i'm stoked.
xp is simple..does the job and more bugs has been fixed over the yars.
even bill
gates know that vista has failed people thats why he is already making way for windows 7.
the only bad thing about vista is the games performance in my opinion. while xp supports
almost everygame and feature that was releases with directx 9c, vista uses directx10,
witch only a few games have support, emulating the 9.0c interface and degrading
performance. people withouth powerfull computers suffer from it. aside this, vista is an
evolution.
rocky stop poting links for people to check out....from my experience, these sites are
filled with malwares. those with .to .whatever and all sorts..
ok to start i also have a decent machine, the problem i have with vista is it makes the
machine run slower. i'm also one of those people who drain the life out of powerful
machines because i'm doing so much, i can do about half as much on vista as i can on the
same setup running xp. i installed vista on a couple of clients pc's and i wish i
didn't, i've finally got them running ok but i almost pulled my hair out because of the
complaints. at time i abandoned vista on my own machine their were too many bugs and i
found it was virtually unusable, every machine had a different problem (all brand new
machines). i agree with the point made by crisinuyasha, there is an obvious difference in
speed with games. ms got a bit too clever with some of their features, i think in some
aspects they have gone backwards with the logic of some controls. processing power aside
it takes longer to do many simple things and i felt that my productivity dropped
immediately after "upgrading". i think after about 9 years ms will have patched 90% of
the old vista bugs and there'll only be about 20% new ones. i think ubuntu linux is so
nice it compares with xp on speed and ease of use. i can run most of the good games on it
no problem. having said all this i believe generally vista will improve and i think all
the visual effects are refreshing, after all we are getting tired of the munane xp look.
windowblinds could be a solution though.
i used xp for 5 years, it was getting old, vista has much more to offer, does things i
could never get xp to do, dual booted for awhile but stopped using xp altogether, don't
think i'll be going back.
first it's good to see some people who like vista, it's a great version of windows, you
need a decent pc and know what your doing and you can tweak it if you need to make it even
faster but installing it from fresh/upgrade it would work fine. xp has been around for
many years and i think its about time they put it to rest and work and build vista up even
better and then make ir run faster on slower machines.
if you go of the system
guide of what is required to run it you will not have a problem but people who like xp
better why not just stick to it and leave the people who like vista alone lol
just seems crazy as people keep talking crap
respect a
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