For the first time since the release is Microsoft's current operating system Windows 7 have replaced the former top dog as the most widely-used Windows XP operating system. This appears from statistics of the online service Statcounter.


The latest figures from Statcounter have it for Windows 7 from a global market share of around 41 percent, while Windows XP has recently fallen to about 37.4 percent. The Windows 7 pre-predecessor held it for years, ranked first among the operating systems and could not be supplanted by Windows Vista. The latter brings operating system, according to Statcounter still currently about 11.6 percent market share. It followed Mac OS X and Linux at 7.3 percent with about 0.8 percent.


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The numbers from Statcounter however, are not infallible. Evaluated approximately 15 billion page impressions to about three million websites. For one thing this is only part of the Internet community - namely the one that is on the way to the counted pages - illustrated, on the other hand, the Internet community itself is only a part of all PC users. Statistically speaking, reflects the selection of the sample, since it is not random, so do not necessarily reflect the population.


Also allow the use of numbers to no conclusion as to what criteria are used by the operating systems. Since pre-installed on most newer PCs Windows 7, its growth is almost preordained, regardless of whether the user being in a separate election would have wanted it.


Nevertheless, the global trend apparently is to very clearly. In comparison with statistics that are collected on computer base, shows that the global number of users that depend significantly on this page afterwards. Computer-base Windows XP was already out of date in December 2009 of Windows 7.


The latest offshoot of Microsoft already achieved a share of around 71 percent, while Windows XP and Windows Vista have waned considerably with approximately eleven and six percent below the base-computer users. In comparison, the proportion of Linux users with around 2.6 percent but is also higher than in the global statistics from Statcounter, while Mac-OSX users of 3.5 percent is represented not as strong.