{"id":14893,"date":"2010-09-02T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-02T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T11:13:00","slug":"windows-7-overtakes-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/14893-windows-7-overtakes-vista.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 overtakes Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just over a year since its release to manufacturer (RTM), Windows 7 has overtaken Windows Vista for the first time in total market share worldwide according to web analytics firm, StatCounter.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s research arm, StatCounter Global Stats, reports that in August Windows 7 took 19.4% total market share, compared to Vista&#8217;s 17.7% worldwide. XP continues to dominate the global market with 55.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter commented, &#8220;Africa, Asia and South America are driving the increased market share for Windows 7. Although there has been extremely good growth for Windows 7 in Europe and North America, it has yet to overtake Vista in these regions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vista continues to outperform Windows 7 in North America with a market share of 24.7% compared to 20.7% for Windows 7 (Windows XP 40.6%). In Europe the gap is even closer with 22.7% for Vista compared to 21.9% for Windows 7 (XP 47.5%).<\/p>\n<p>Aodhan Cullen added, &#8220;The installed base of Windows Vista was very low in Africa, Asia and South America and now users in these regions are upgrading straight from Windows XP to Windows 7 giving rise to this leap in market share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to StatCounter the data is based on an analysis of 15 billion page views for August 2010 collected from the StatCounter network of over three million websites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/264067-Windows-7-surpasses-Vista\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Windows 7 overtakes Vista\"><strong>Windows 7 overtakes Vista<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>StatCounter recently said that Windows 7 has overtaken Vista in total market share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}