Windows 7 News

We know that Windows 7 is popular and as we can tell from it’s month on month increase in market share it’s not showing any signs of letting up. Well I bet you wouldn’t be surprised if I told you that for the first 5 months of its release, it now holds double the market share that Windows Vista held after the same period. According to Web Metrics company, NetApplications.com, Windows 7 has managed to grab over twice the market share Windows Vista managed to attain over the same period. As of last Sunday, 5 Months after the release ( October 22nd 2009 ) of Windows 7, it held 9% of the market. Windows Vista after 5 months held only 4.5%

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While there is a lot of interest today about Windows Mobile 7, some other news has appeared on the radar about Windows 7 64 bit operating systems. Recent statistics have shown that Windows 7 64 bit is starting to make headway against 32 bit OS. These Operating Systems have a presence: Windows XP 32 bit (-2.62%)  42.15% Windows 7 64 bit (+3.89%)  19.50% Windows Vista 32 bit (-1.62%)  19.09% These Operating Systems have less than 10%: Windows 7 32 bit (+1.58%)  9.03% Windows Vista 64 bit (-1.18%)  8.82% These Operating systems are almost insignificant: Windows XP 64 bit (-0.01%)  0.63% Windows 2003 64 bit (-0.07%)  0.57% Windows 2000 (0.00%)  0.10% Other (+0.02%)  0.10% While 32 bit XP is still dominant in the market with about 42%, Windows 7 64 bit is now at nearly 20%.

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Microsoft is giving everyone gifts for Windows 8. These gifts are of course pre-installed applications that come with the default install of Windows 8. These are powerful tools that acknowledge & contribute to creativity and insight of Windows 8 users. The default tools within the Windows 8 install will be basic, but offer upgrades using micro payments to give you added bonuses and features.

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On the heels of a move into the social networking sphere, Google on Wednesday announced that they are ready to tackle another role – Internet service provider. Google plans to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the U.S., and is promising speeds up to 1 gigabit per second. These will be fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) connections that are “100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today,” according to Google. “Our goal is to experiment with new ways to help make Internet access better and faster for everyone,” Minnie Ingersoll and James Kelly, Google product managers, wrote in a blog post. Speeds up to 1G/bit per second are important to handle emerging technologies, Google said, and it urged participants to “think big with a gig.” That type of speed “will enable new consumer applications, as well as medical, educational, and other services that can benefit communities,” the company said.

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Microsoft recently carried out their very own survey which revealed the best places to buy pirated copies of Windows 7. Lets just say that if I were Microsoft I wouldn’t be too happy with the results. It turns out that the Russians are the biggest pirates of Windows 7 around. According to the survey, Moscow is Related posts: Windows 7 Activation Hacks Created Is democracy necessary for ICT and Windows 7 to flourish?

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After more than three months, Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system has reached 10 percent market share, according to data from Net Applications. As of January 31, Windows 7 had 10.16 percent of the OS market, up from 8.99 percent one day before. On October 30, eight days after its release, Win 7 had 2.85 percent of the market. It has steadily increased that share over time, breaking into 5 percent in late November. Overall, for the month of January, Windows 7 was at 7.57 percent market share, behind Vista at 17.47 percent and XP at 66.15 percent.

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This is sort of insane when you think about it. According to new Gartner research, Apple so completely dominates the mobile app market that it’s eye-watering. Over 99 percent–99.4, to be exact–of all mobile app sales and free downloads took place in Apple’s App Store during 2009, Ars Technica reports. Apple recently announced that over 3 billion apps have now been sold or downloaded for free, with 2.5 billion of them in 2009 alone. The article said that Apple could still hold onto at least two-thirds of this market–which totaled $4.2 billion in 2009–if current trends hold through the end of 2010.

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2009 wasn’t a good year for Apple’s computer division, as a company they’ve had so much focus on consumer electronics in the last few years they they dropped the ball, in fact they did this a few years ago really.  The culmination to all of this was a terrible year for OS X. The only thing that saved the computer division of the company was its hardware designers.  The latest generation of Apple computer hardware is excellent and has encouraged major high street retailers, who might never have stocked Apple computers before, to begin selling them. Then came the ultimate hammer blow… Windows 7. While not the revolutionary step forward that many, including myself, were hoping for, Windows 7 has raised the bar significantly for OS design and implementation.  It’s the first version of Windows since 95 that’s been monumentally well received and who’s critics have quickly and quietly been silenced.  It is, simply put, a superb piece of software engineering.  This goes doubly so when you compare the sheer number of hardware variations it has to run on

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ComScore released its search stats for November, and there appears to be a definite trend emerging as of late–Microsoft’s Bing is eating into Yahoo’s marketshare in a big way. Bing jumped up to 10.3-percent of the market last month, an increase from 9.9-percent. Yahoo dropped roughly the same amount, from 18.0 to 17.5.

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It’s still quite a ways from iPhone numbers (that store has more than 100,000), but the Android Market has come a long way in the last couple of months. The plucky little app store managed to hit to 20,000 app mark this week–that’s twice the number it had roughly five months ago. Roughly 38-percent of the apps developed for Android are paid. Google doesn’t actually release this numbers.

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