I was reading my daily RSS feeds and came across this headline.
“More than 10% of all PCs worldwide now on Windows 7″. (http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2010/04/22/more-than-10-of-all-pcs-worldwide-now-on-windows-7.aspx)
It stood out and made me interested. That is pretty amazing, since Windows 7 has only been out for a few months. Considering the volume of users that have a PC that is huge number and to get to 10% this quick is just outstanding. I have been lucky enough to use 7 for quite a while at home, but still use XP at the office.
I am continually amazed at how people upgrade and update their home PC’s. Not many of the people I know who are not technical would even be able to tell you how to upgrade their OS. In fact, most of the people I end up helping with their tech problems just purchase a new PC rather than upgrade the OS.
I wonder how many of the sales are tied to a new PC? I would even love to know what the numbers were of people upgrading from XP or Vista?
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I think that microsoft is finally doing something right with their Beta system. Even though there were issues the Windows 7 Beta seems to be a success. People who wanted to test it could download and install (maybe not the first 2 days due to capacity of the servers) .
I am currently in the Azure beta (limited beta) and that is also going well. Overall, it seems like Microsoft is catching on by letting people (the public) be part of their beta programs and doing it well. Realizing that the Microsoft Beta is different than the Google Beta (Think Gmail, which just got out of beta).
Here is an article that talks about the Windows 7 beta being extended (Windows 7 Extended till Feb 12)
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I rarely post on things such as MAC vs PC vs Linux. This is because I’m kind of in the middle. As far as I am concerned, they are just an OS. I use Linux at home (typing this out on Ubuntu) and Windows at work. When I read this article I had to include it for reference. In this case the authors (Gizmodo) think that Windows 7 has done something right.
I’m currently running Windows 7 on my work machine. I figure why not go all the way and use the new technology. The feature I’m still getting used to is the Task bar. This post is calling the new task bar better than OSX. I don’t know if I fully agree yet, but it’s growing on me.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5131933/giz-explains-why-the-windows-7-taskbar-beats-mac-os-xs-dock
So install Win 7 yourself and leave me a message. I for one, will always vote for a Terminal window or slick run for command line launches. I’m still bitter that Vista took (START | RUN) away by default.
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