Win8 market share has increased slightly to 5.40%

Computer Store News: After entering the second half of 2013, the share of Windows 8 is still growing slowly. At the same time, the market for Windows 7 is still strong, and nearly half of its mountains and rivers make its successors feel powerless. The latest data from Net Application shows that for Win8, July 2013 was a peaceful month, and its market share rose slightly from 5.1% to 5.4%; however, Win7 is not to be outdone, its share rose slightly from 44.37% to 44.89. %, increased by 0.12 percentage points.

The growth rate of Windows 8 is not as fast as people expect. Despite the biggest gain of 0.83 percentage points in June this year, July almost became the smallest month since the OS was released in October last year. We attribute the June surge to Microsoft's next operating system ——Windows 8.1—— This will be a free update that Windows 8 users can get through the Windows Store. At the Build 2013 conference, we saw a lot of interesting features integrated in the 8.1 preview. But suddenly suddenly became commonplace in July, because most business users are still satisfied with Windows 7. In January, Windows 7 lost its 45% market share threshold for the first time since its release. However, it is almost impossible for Win7 to return to 45%. The market share of Windows Vista dropped by 0.38 percentage points (from 4.61% to 4.24%), and its market share has not improved since it fell to 5% in March. However, Windows XP is slightly a bit abnormal, but it has regained 0.02 percentage points (from 37.17% to 37.19%). By the end of 2012, Windows had finally recovered the overall trend after six months of depression — — mainly thanks to Windows 7 and 8. As of now, Microsoft in 2013 has not grown except for March and July. Between June and July, Windows regained an overall share of 0.05 percentage points (from 91.51% to 91.56%). At the same time, OS X and Linux lost 0.01 and 0.03 percentage points respectively — — (OS X to 7.19%, Linux to 1.25%). Net Application's data collection is from 160 million absolute visits per month, including monitoring results for its 40,000 customer sites. StatCounter is another popular market share change service monitor with data from 15 billion page views. The latter data is —— Windows 8 accounts for 6.61%.