Windows XP SP3

[Barabajagal]

Well, for those of us still on Windows XP (Meaning most everyone on the internets), Service Pack 3 is swiftly approaching release. Until then, Release Candidate 2 has been released. Having installed RC1, I can suggest all XP users get this, as it improved the startup time of Windows by about half the time it used to take.

Release notes can be found here

[MyndFyre]

(Meaning most everyone on the internets)

From my website stats tracker:

1.    Windows XP 52.80%
2.    Unknown Windows 23.73%
3.    Windows 2000 4.28%
4.    Windows 98 3.64%
5.    Windows NT 0.11%
6.    Windows 95 0.01%
7.    Windows ME 0.05%
8.    Windows CE 0.03%
  OS unknown 12.18%
  Unix 1.95%
9.    Linux 1.94%
10.    BSD 0.01%
  Macintosh 1.00%
  Known robots 0.23%

Unknown Windows means Vista.

[Spht]

My site's stats:

1. Windows          98.33%
    1. XP               84.40%    
    2. Vista            13.99%
    3. Server 2003      1.04%
    4. 98               0.29%
    5. 2000             0.20%
    6. ME               0.07%

2. Macintosh         1.20%
    1. PPC              71.64%    
    2. Intel            28.36%

3. Linux             0.43%

4. (not set)         0.02%

5. iPod              0.02%

[Barabajagal]

http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s19sachen&r=19 for my site...

And it seems to match up rather well with http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp and http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10

[Spht]

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Vista's market share grew more in a few months than mac did in 5 years.  also, xp seems to have reached a peak to which it is now declining.  in a few years expect vista to have as much if not more than xp's share

[Warrior]

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Vista's market share grew more in a few months than mac did in 5 years.  also, xp seems to have reached a peak to which it is now declining.  in a few years expect vista to have as much if not more than xp's share

Try one week. It sold more copies in it's first week than there are users of OSX on the planet.

[MyndFyre]

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Vista's market share grew more in a few months than mac did in 5 years.  also, xp seems to have reached a peak to which it is now declining.  in a few years expect vista to have as much if not more than xp's share

Try one week. It sold more copies in it's first week than there are users of OSX on the planet.

Source?

[Barabajagal]

Sold more copies... You're talking about all the prebuilt comp companies that push anything MS releases by contract?

[iago]

Heh, I know people who bought a new computer, and then bought XP and had the store install it. So totally lame!

But anyways.....

(Meaning most everyone on the internets)

Hmm:

ron@slayer:~$ uname -a
Linux slayer 2.6.21.5-smp #2 SMP Tue Jun 19 14:58:11 CDT 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Looks like an outdated Linux OS to me.

[Newby]

I run Linux but I spoof my user agent to say Windows Vista. Mwhahaha.

[Barabajagal]

I think that's why MS started offering free downgrades to XP...

And what?

[iago]

I think that's why MS started offering free downgrades to XP...

And what?

Where do you get that from? I haven't heard anything about MS offering that, but I don't get a lot of news.

[iCe]

from what I was told. You can downgrade from Vista to XP only from dell, as customers didnt like being forced into vista.

[Warrior]

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Vista's market share grew more in a few months than mac did in 5 years.  also, xp seems to have reached a peak to which it is now declining.  in a few years expect vista to have as much if not more than xp's share

Try one week. It sold more copies in it's first week than there are users of OSX on the planet.

Source?

Vista's market share grew more in a few months than mac did in 5 years.  also, xp seems to have reached a peak to which it is now declining.  in a few years expect vista to have as much if not more than xp's share

Try one week. It sold more copies in it's first week than there are users of OSX on the planet.

Source?

I seem to have misspoken, the correct figure is half of the install base of OSX.

Marketshare at the time for OSX was 5% and total marketshare for Vista after one week was ~2-3% after a 60% surge in PC sales.

I had a link that explained it all nice but I can't seem to find it anymore.

[Warrior]

Sold more copies... You're talking about all the prebuilt comp companies that push anything MS releases by contract?

The same companies that allow you to get Linux as an OEM package as well. OSX is not really an option due to the locked down nature of Apple.