Windows 7, XP and even Vista GAIN market share again

Essential Guide to IT Transformation Whatever Microsoft is doing to get punters adopting Windows 8.x isn't working, at least if the latest figures from Netmarketshare showing its older operating systems growing faster than its latest progeny are any guide.

We've now tracked Netmarketshare's data for nine months and as the table below shows, Windows 7 has enjoyed steady growth over that period. Windows XP has also had its moments, as it did between May and June 2014 when it accounted for 0.06 per cent more of the operating systems Netmarketshare detected with its methodology of digging through web server logs.

	Oct 2013	Nov 2013	Dec 2013	Jan 2014	Feb 2014	Mar 2014	Apr 2014	May 2014	Jun 2014
Win XP	31.24	31.22	28.98	29.23	29.53	27.69	26.29	25.27	25.31
Win Vista	3.63	3.57	3.61	3.3	3.1	2.99	2.89	X	2.95
Win 7	46.42	46.64	47.52	47.49	47.31	48.77	49.27	50.06	50.55
Win 8	7.53	6.66	6.89	6.63	6.38	6.41	6.36	6.29	5.93
Win 8.1	1.72	2.64	3.6	3.95	4.1	4.89	5.88	6.35	6.61

Even Windows Vista managed to grow by market share over the last couple of months.

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