Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X vs. Linux - for the Last Time in 2007 - Market Share

[Third Eye]

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.


Source: Softpedia

[naveen_reloaded]

i like it...

[gxsaurav]

Well, just like all Windows OS, it will take time for Vista to go mainstream, same thing happened with XP, people said "why go for XP when Windows 2000 works fine" but look at it today.

[Voldy]

Vista still have along way to go to teach the top

[New]

XP rocks onceagain.
Happy New Year

[axxo]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

Well, just like all Windows OS, it will take time for Vista to go mainstream, same thing happened with XP, people said "why go for XP when Windows 2000 works fine" but look at it today.

remember what happened to Windows ME...polished version of Win 98...Vista is just the same..beautified version of Win xp with buggier performances....

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by axxo

remember what happened to Windows ME...polished version of Win 98...Vista is just the same..beautified version of Win xp with buggier performances....

Dont U feel difference between XP and Vista.
Vista is more fast..smooth....and secure..with great look.

All U need is good hardware configuration...and than enjoy Vista.

[iMav]

Originally Posted by axxo

remember what happened to Windows ME...polished version of Win 98...Vista is just the same..beautified version of Win xp with buggier performances....

vista is much bigger than ME had nothing new to offer as compared to what vista has to offer

[axxo]

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

Dont U feel difference between XP and Vista.
Vista is more fast..smooth....and secure..with great look.

All U need is good hardware configuration...and than enjoy Vista.

Vista is faster than XP?? then benchmarks & results are wrong if the above the statement is true

[iMav]

Originally Posted by axxo

Vista is faster than XP?? then benchmarks & results are wrong if the above the statement is true

fast no ... smooth yes and the UI has some improvements which make using vista more pleasurable than xp .... but MS is hard at wrk when it comes to vista pretty much like xp which got the same flack when it was released with time the vista will become better with time but certainly not meet the same fate as ME because vista is not based on XP

[axxo]

Originally Posted by iMav

vista is much bigger than ME had nothing new to offer as compared to what vista has to offer

comparing ME with Vista is like Windows 3.1 with Win 2000

[iMav]

im not comparing ME and vista but comparing what vista has over xp and what me had over 98

[ravi_9793]

Originally Posted by axxo

Vista is faster than XP?? then benchmarks & results are wrong if the above the statement is true

vista is fast..but I dont want to compare it with XP.
There are lots of tweaks and software available to make both OS fast and smooth.To make vista fast..U really need good hardware configuration.U cant compare XP and vista running on 512 MB RAM.

[axxo]

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

vista is fast..but I dont want to compare it with XP.
There are lots of tweaks and software available to make both OS fast and smooth.To make vista fast..U really need good hardware configuration.U cant compare XP and vista running on 512 MB RAM.

its not just RAM...U need a lot of change in the hardware..graphics card, proc ,etc.

[iMav]

Originally Posted by axxo

its not just RAM...U need a lot of change in the hardware..graphics card, proc ,etc.

not much required just ram is sufficient if u have a p4 now dont tell me p4 is also asking too much

p4, 2gb ram, gfx card is ur option if u want aero and that too something as old as fx 5200 wrks like a charm

[axxo]

Originally Posted by iMav

not much required just ram is sufficient if u have a p4 now dont tell me p4 is also asking too much

p4, 2gb ram, gfx card is ur option if u want aero and that too something as old as fx 5200 wrks like a charm

whether it works or not is the question..how far the performance is given the same hardware...myself have AMD 3000+ 2GB DDR & 6600GT...and i can see the disparity...not negligible variation but a lot more

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

vista is fast..but I dont want to compare it with XP.
There are lots of tweaks and software available to make both OS fast and smooth.To make vista fast..U really need good hardware configuration.U cant compare XP and vista running on 512 MB RAM.

accept this statement...requires very good & latest hardware configuration.

[iMav]

well i find it pretty good on my desktop which is a p4 so cant say about u

requires decent config 4 year old config it works like a charm .... something that has been said gazillion no. of times .... hradware and software needs to compliment each other ..... 98 required better hardware than 3.1 ..... u cannot expect every new OS that comes to work on hardware 8 years old

[axxo]

Originally Posted by iMav

well i find it pretty good on my desktop which is a p4 so cant say about u

well dont use just MS office & MS windows media player dude...

come out play some games(i didnt meant solitaire& freecell )..use editing softs..then u will

Originally Posted by iMav

well i find it pretty good on my desktop which is a p4 so cant say about u

requires decent config 4 year old config it works like a charm .... something that has been said gazillion no. of times .... hradware and software needs to compliment each other ..... 98 required better hardware than 3.1 ..... u cannot expect every new OS that comes to work on hardware 8 years old

what AMD 64 bit is 8 yrs old???

[iMav]

im in no mood get a ban in the new year so if u wanna continue this useless discussion about vista's hardware requirement which has been discussed to length on numerous occasions come to the fight club section

and fyi adobe ps or ulead video studio being sluggish amounts to their requirement they should make softwares that are light ....

if u wanna tlak abt games ... u have seen dx 10 screenshots .... dx 10 is for vista so it makes vista better than xp

carbon requirements are stupid and so is pro-street ... games having higher requirement is also MS fault

[Third Eye]

Guys Guys

Today is 2008's first day

Please don't start fighting

[gxsaurav]

Originally Posted by axxo

remember what happened to Windows ME...polished version of Win 98...Vista is just the same..beautified version of Win xp with buggier performances....

No, Vista brings 100s of new technologies to the market which ME never did. Comparing ME to Vista is like compating Maruti 800 to a car which will be released in 2020

p4, 2gb ram, gfx card is ur option if u want aero and that too something as old as fx 5200 wrks like a charm

P4 2.4 Ghz, Geforce FX 5700 & 1 GB RAM is the minimum I have tried Vista on at a friend's place. It was smooth as XP

myself have AMD 3000+ 2GB DDR & 6600GT

You system is more the adequate to run Vista. Just configure it properly & it will be awsome.

accept this statement...requires very good & latest hardware configuration.

No, wrong.