StatCounter. And Vista? That version sits at 4.17% in this table, far behind other flavors of Windows at this point. Just for the record, Windows XP is in third place with 9.82%, Windows 8.1 the second with 15.68% to its name, while Windows 7 still holds the most commanding of leads with 54.05%. Both Windows 8 and Windows Vista are losing users, and by the time Windows 10 is here, both versions of the operating system are expected to drop to even lower levels in terms of worldwide market share.]]>
“But with the arrival of Windows 8.1, them more pressing matter was why people failed to upgrade to the newest release — what with it being free and all.” Why people fail to upgrade is no mystery, have a little more empathy for the entire spectrum of the population and the answer is clear.
Vista was not as bad as people make it out to be, when 7 came out it, it was what Vista should have been to start with. The same with 8, it should have been closer to 8.1 or even 10. Microsoft just seems to put out the OS’s too soon. What really made 8 stink is the lack of desktop support, aka start menu. Windows 8/8.1 works great on tablets, having android tablets before, I would not go back to them after using my Lenovo Windows 8 tablet.
Windows 10 isn’t even to the masses and you are perceiving the numbers to be lowering. People like you are the reason Windows 8 was such “a failure”. There was nothing wrong with it just people fell for the doom and gloom of the media. I have had a pc and tablets with Win8 and enjoyed it since it came out. Windows had a fresh idea and the media slaughtered it.