Windows 7 market share will exceed XP

According to foreign media reports, although Microsoft has sold 350 million Windows 7 licenses, the global adoption rate of Windows 7 is still far behind Windows XP.
Last week, Microsoft announced that its sales have exceeded 350 million after 18 months of Windows 7 release. Although Microsoft has gradually entered new areas, such as smartphones and cloud computing, it still relies on traditional platforms (such as Windows) to make money.
On April 22, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement on the Windows blog that more than 90% of enterprise users are currently planning to upgrade Windows 7.
To ensure that Windows 7's market share continues to climb, Microsoft needs to continue to persuade corporate users and consumers to abandon Windows XP. According to statistics from network monitoring agency Net Applications, Windows XP has a global market share of 54.39%, Windows 7 has a market share of 24.7%, Vista has a market share of 10.56%, and Mac OS X 10.6 has a market share of 3.50%. .
However, data from another network monitoring agency, StatCounter, shows that Windows XP has a global market share of 47.32%, Vista has a market share of 13.66%, and Mac OS X has a market share of 6.53%. In the US, Windows 7 has a market share of 30.84%, which is getting closer to 32.17% of Windows XP.
Although there are still many users using Windows XP as their daily operating system, Microsoft still hopes that users can perform the upgrade of the new operating system. Currently, the Microsoft Download Center has provided a Windows XP support deadline countdown widget, and XP's extended support will expire in 2014. At the same time, Microsoft's latest browser, IE9, does not support XP.
In addition, after more than a year of Windows 7 release, Microsoft launched a series of promotional activities designed to promote the adoption rate of Windows 7. Some analysts expect that the adoption rate of Windows 7 will gradually increase in the next few years, and more and more enterprise users will accept high-tech calls.
At present, there are only three years left before Microsoft ends the technical support of Windows XP. If Windows 7 can maintain its strong adoption rate, it will definitely replace XP's dominant position in the market.