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3 months in, Windows Vista still has a higher market share than Windows 8

February 2, 2013 By 5 Comments

Yes, it’s true. According to Net Marketshare, a trend analytics firm, Microsoft’s most derided OS still has a higher market share than their latest and greatest OS, Windows 8. Windows 8′s overall market share pales in comparison to Windows 7′s commanding 44.48% slice of the OS pie. Surprisingly enough, Windows XP is still going strong, and currently has 39.51% of the OS marketshare. So why the low adoption? Well, it’s actually because of a number of factors – most commonly cost and availability of touchscreen Windows 8 devices, and the continuing growth of mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. Of course, it’s still kind of unfair to gauge the success or failure of a new operating system against another OS that has been out for several years already, but the low adoption rate of the new OS might be a potential problem for Microsoft down the road.

Source: Net Marketshare

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  • Azzras

    3 whole months and it has almost matched OSx market share. I think that would have gotten you more clicks.

    • John_Nieves

      It’s not entirely fair to compare Windows 8 to OS X. It’s also quite amusing to see that Windows 8 has still not topped the most hated OS of all time. But thanks for the suggestion anyway.

      • Azzras

        Yet ‘the most hated os of all time’ has more market share than almost all of OSx releases combined. You silly isolated mac people. Windows 8 is already used more on steam than XP. Waaay more than any OSx release. And it’s only been out for a few months…also, there wasn’t a lot of hardware out that could run win8 to its max potential.
        and why is it not fair to compare an OS that’s been out for a few months to one that is cheaper and been out longer?

      • Azzras

        Based off of how few comments (the author and myself) there are here, you should have taken my suggestion. you’d have gotten hundreds of comments then.

  • GuiMaster

    Was an upgrade to Vista Pro available for only $39.99 during the first 3 months? No! Instead people complained about the price of Vista when it was first released. But even at such a low price and with XP only a year away from losing support, Microsoft can’t sell Windows 8. What a major fail!

    I see lots of articles talking about slow Windows 8 sales, but what they are failing to mention is all of the reasons why Windows 8 SHOULD have sold more units than Vista in the same time frame. Is Windows 8 a buggy mess? No! So why isn’t it selling better?

    And you can’t tell me that if Microsoft launched Windows 8 with a traditional UI, that it would have sold this slowly. People wouldn’t be so willing to stick with Windows 7 if they could get a similar UI with 3 extra years of updates – until 2023 instead of 2020!