Microsoft Windows 8.1 use is growing

[anuseems]

Update appears to have saved it

From Fudzilla:

NetMarketShares monthly Desktop OS sampling shows that Windows 8.1 still had some stiff competition from Windows 7. Windows XP lost a chunk of users, with its share falling 1.43 per cent - from 27.69 per cent in March to 26.26 per cent in April. The downwards trend is set to continue now that Microsoft is no longer providing security updates for XP.

Windows 8 lost 0.07 per cent market share and its replacement gained nearly a whole percentage point going from 4.89 per cent to 5.86 per cent. Combined, Windows 8.x grew by 0.9 per cent, its biggest market share gain since December 2013. Windows 7 has grown from 48.77 per cent to 49.42 per cent, for a gain of 0.65 per cent -roughly two thirds of what Windows 8.x managed. At this rate, it will take three and a half years to reach the same level as Windows 7.

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/34652-microsoft-windows-81-use-is-growing

Edited May 4, 2014 by anuseems

[#return 1337]

I originally had Windows 8, then went back to Windows 7, then got Windows 8.1 Spring Update.

The 8.1 and respectively the spring update has fixed a lot of the major issues I had with Windows 8. They had too much separation between the desktop and the metro, with half the features being in one and half the features being in another. They have now unified it properly, where the metro is just an app running on top of the desktop, which is how it should've been in the first place.

[mosaji]

Yes, it would. Thanks to n_ra1n... :D

[mara-]

I just switched to Windows 8.1, from Windows 7 and that's why it's use grew. :lol:

I must say, Windows 8.1 is not so bad, I even like it. Only modification I done is to install StartIsBack. I like that it is really fast, especially starting and shutting down Windows. Other aspects are also fast, it seems to me that even starting applications is faster.

Cheers ;)