According to the latest results of the desktop os market share in the us for april 2011 collected by statcounter, it looks like people are finally leaving windows xp behind and. This graph shows the market share of desktop windows versions worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views. It overtook windows xp in the first ten days of october with a 40.18 per cent share of.
According to new statcouter figures, it took two years but windows 7 has surpassed its older brother xp in market share. In 2011, windows 7 finally took over windows xp as the most used windows operating system in october 2011. Concerning worldwide usage numbers for the same time period (march 2010 to april 2011), xp is still in the lead with 47.7 percent of the market, while windows 7 is sitting at.
Windows xp still has the lead in 44% of all the countries included in this study, with china taking the top spot with over 74% usage share for xp. In just a year, windows 7 went from 30.08% to 47.23%. In april, windows 7 passed xp in the u.s., but. As for vista, it's been holding steady at around.
According to statcounter, windows 7 holds around 2.5% market share while windows xp commands 0.22%. October 2011 marks the first time that windows 7 has overtaken xp globally, with a 40 percent share of the market versus the latter's 38. Windows 7 has, finally, become the world’s most popular desktop operating system.