Star Windows 7 Hits 3% Market Share, Approaches 4%
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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Soulbender
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Building a hardware device that doesn't work for Windows would be an extremely poor business decision.


Dependson your definition of "working". There's plenty of hardware that supposedly work but are hampered by buggy drivers or by simply not being of very high quality. I've had quite a few items (examples: USB ethernet nic, USB wireless nic) that worked out of the box in Linux (and OpenBSD) but required me to go hunting for reasonably working drivers for Windows.

People can go to the store, look at a hardware device and see if there is a mac or windows logo on it. You can't do this with Linux.


That doesn't mean there aren't issues with that, or other, hardware.

No they don't care if it is commercial but there aren't enough open source alternatives to commercial software


Perhaps but that's a different problem

There still isn't a good itunes alternative which is used by almost every person I know.


Having never used iTunes I wouldn't know. I will agree that I'm not very happy about any of the audio players in Linux though. That's not saying they're not working, I just don't like how they work.

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