Windows 7 Surpasses Vista in Usage

[Rob Williams]

Well, it's happened. Windows 7 has finally passed Vista in terms of overall usage, and it took a just under ten months to accomplish. That's far more impressive than Vista's first ten months, that's for sure. Since its launch, 7 has been on a clean incline, and if it keeps up the rate it's going, then XP is surely to be surpassed in the year ahead, which would be even more of an impressive accomplishment.

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[Kougar]

That's not the only one. Almost hard to fathom, but on Steam's July survey Windows 7 64bit finally surpassed Windows XP 32bit in install base, to become the most widely used OS version for Steam users.

 

[TheCrimsonStar]

That's not the only one. Almost hard to fathom, but on Steam's July survey Windows 7 64bit finally surpassed Windows XP 32bit in install base, to become the most widely used OS version for Steam users.

not hard to believe for me, since most modern games are requiring 2-4gb of ram just to run, and most people want to have more than that so all their ram doesn't get used up in-game, and you need a 64-bit os to utilize more than 3gb.