A recent market study from Janco revealed that the adoption rate of Windows 7 has been much higher than Vista over the first few months of each OS release. Windows 7 outpaced Vista’s growth by a significant margin over the first 9 months of its release. By month nine, Windows 7 captured more than 14% of the OS market share. Whereas, Vista had only claimed slightly more than 6% of the market share during the same period after its launch. Windows 7 eclipsed the Vista OS user base after only 7 months on the market. Perhaps those “I’m a PC” commercials had something to do with it?
Other interesting findings from Janco include Internet Explorer’s continued decline as browser of choice – down 3.71% from April 2009 to April 2010. IE now has 67.73% of the browser market share, while Firefox grew 0.79% over the same period and now possesses a 17.88% market share. Google Chrome is up to 5.4% and sits in third place on the browser board after growing 1.49% over the past year.
[via Janco]
