{"id":7781,"date":"2014-07-03T06:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T10:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7781"},"modified":"2014-07-03T06:41:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T10:41:25","slug":"wrong-way-windows-8-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wrong-way-windows-8-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Way Windows 8.x"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>Windows 8.x goes into reverse gear<\/strong><\/h1>\n

— loses market share as both Windows 7 and XP show growth<\/h2>\n

By Wayne Williams<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be honest, although Windows 8.x losing market share is a shocking state of affairs — and a new low for an operating system which has struggled since launch — it\u2019s something that\u2019s been coming for a while. Windows 8 has been dropping share since Windows 8.1 arrived, and Windows 8.1 has been growing at such a glacial pace it was only a matter of time before the losses outweighed the gains, and that\u2019s exactly what happened in June according to NetMarketShare.<\/p>\n

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In a month where Windows 7 and Windows XP — the OS that refuses to die — both gained market share, “new Windows” shifted into reverse gear and began shedding users.<\/p>\n

The loss is minimal — Windows 8 dropped 0.36 percent and Windows 8.1 gained 0.26 percent, so the aggregate is a drop of just 0.1 percent, but even so. Windows 8.x is the only easily obtainable Windows operating system, and it comes pre-installed on pretty much every new PC. Microsoft has made wholesale changes to try and get people interested in the tiled OS, and it\u2019s just not happening.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not pretend otherwise, a drop in market share of any size — any amount — is a disaster for Microsoft\u2019s new OS. You can blame the better weather (for those in the northern hemisphere), you can blame the World Cup (both have an impact on tech sales and use) but that argument doesn\u2019t really hold water as 8.x is the only OS to drop share in June. That said, there is age to take into account. Windows 8.x users are likely to be slightly younger than users of older operating systems (less averse to change), and therefore more likely to switch from a PC to a non-Windows tablet at this time of year.<\/p>\n

But even so.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere Windows 7 managed to gain just under half a percentage point (0.49 percent) going from 50.06 percent in May to 50.55 percent in June, cementing its position as the fastest growing operating system. Imagine how well it would be doing if it was more readily available…<\/p>\n

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Windows 8.x goes into reverse gear — loses market share as both Windows 7 and XP show growth By Wayne Williams I\u2019ll be honest, although Windows 8.x losing market share is a shocking state of affairs — and a new low for an operating system which has struggled since launch — it\u2019s something that\u2019s been coming for a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}