Windows 8 Now has more users than Windows Vista

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According to NetMarketShare's latest figures (for June 2013), Windows 8 has surpassed Windows Vista for the first time. Windows 8 market share currently sits at 5.1 percent, while Windows Vista accounts for 4.62 percent of the market.

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I bet, the rise in Windows 8 users is mostly caused by cheaper Windows 8 8-inch and smaller tablets like the Acer W3 8inch 32GB Tablet which cost $380, and supports keyboard and mouse. Plus, the Windows 8 App store now has 100,000 touchscreen apps.

Acer W3 tablet is less than an iPad Mini 32GB version which cost $499. Plus, Windows 8 Tablets support regular desktop programs like Google Chrome, MS Word, VLC, and OpenOffice. You can easily plug in a Keyboard and mouse/touchpad to use the desktop and desktop program.

Students are buying desktops, laptops and netbooks for back to school which is causing Windows 8 to rise since it is harder to find Windows 7 computers in some stores.
 
If Microsoft makes a $199-249.99 or cheaper Windows 8 Pro Surface 9 inch tablet with a Intel i7, 6GB of RAM, 64GB SSD and a Nvidia or ATI graphics chip, I bet it could pass XP faster since a lot of people buy cheaper tablets like the Kindle Fire, Nexus 7, and iPad Mini.

Tablets are also selling pretty well for Apple, and Google.
 
Don't mean a thing, Vista was a fail OS. Let me know once it gets past W7.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Don't mean a thing, Vista was a fail OS. Let me know once it gets past W7.
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It may not mean a thing to you, but I bet Microsoft and Windows 8 fans are partying over the news of 8 passing Vista. 8 already pass Linux, UNIX, Windows 98 and older versions. In the next few months, 8 would pass Apple OS X operating systems which is at 7.18%, and 8 just needs 2.08% more percent of the PC users to pass OS X to be the third most used desktop OS in the world.

I like Vista it is still a good OS for me on my laptop since it work better for me than 7. When I upgraded to Windows 7, 7  freezes my older desktop with only 1GB of RAM more than Vista which ran pretty good on 1GB of RAM.

Vista can run on  a PC with only 512MB of RAM while 7 needed 1GB of RAM to just to run. Vista may not run very fast on 512MB of RAM, but good enough for watching video, office work, basic web browsing, e-mail, and writing essays for english class.

Video of some guy who had Vista installed on a PC with 512MB of RAM.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thVirLY-BN8

I still use Vista on a older laptop, and Vista is good enough for most laptop tasks like Typing documents, watching video files, YouTube, and Skype video chat.

When more cheaper $199 and 8 inch and smaller Windows 8 tablets and netbooks come out, there would be more people using Windows 8.

I think most of the Windows 7 machines out now are cheaper netbooks, and low-end laptops which people bought for 200-300 dollars, so once most of them break, or become slow because of viruses, and old age, the same people most likely buy a cheaper Windows 8 Tablet, or netbook for 199-299 dollars.
 
I upgraded from a Windows 98 to Windows Vista computer, so I was using the same Windows OS since 1998, and did not use XP, 2000, or ME much except at school, so Vista was actually an improvement for me because Windows 98 crashed a lot more compared to Vista.

My favorite feature in Vista was System Restore since it made undoing problems with my computer much easier than re-installing Windows.

I upgraded from Vista to 7, and it was good in the beginning, but became slow after a few months. Now I'm using 8, and although, the user interface is not as friendly as previous versions of Windows, I am enjoying the speed, low RAM usage, and faster performance on 8 compared to 7. Plus, the Windows 8 App store has a lot of fun games like Cut the Rope, Riptide GP, Temple Run Brave, etc which are free, or cheap to buy in the 8 App store.
 
I heard bad things about Windows Me crashing more than Windows 98, and people downgrading to 98. Although, Windows ME introduce system restore which is now in all current versions of Windows, and System Restore is useful for quickly fixing problems casused by third party software, Windows update, and user error.
 
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