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Windows 7 is still continuing to increase the gap between its predecessor, Windows Vista. Windows 7 is nearing its first birthday now and after nearly 11 months its done quite well for itself.

According to the new stats released by Net Applications, it’s still growing and now holds an impressive 15.87 percentage share of the overall OS market. Windows Vista on the other hand, is still dropping and being left behind with just 14% of the market. It was only in July the Windows 7 managed to overtake Windows Vista by grabbing 14.34 percent of the market, marking a major milestone for Microsoft and their most successful operating system to date.

Windows 7 is still rapidly growing and I’m sure we can only see this figure begin to increase even more as it reaches it’s first anniversary, not to mention the increase in PC sales coming up to the holiday season. It seems Microsoft are managing to push more users from Windows Vista than they are from Windows XP. Part of the reason so many XP users are still holding on is because the upgrade process from Windows XP to Windows 7 isn’t as straight forward as it is from Windows Vista. The other reason could be that some people are holding out for the first Service Pack for Windows 7 before they make the change.

Either way, Windows XP is still the dominant player with 60.89 percent of the market, which is only 1 percent less than it had last month.

For the moment Windows 7 seems to be growing mainly at Windows Vistas expense, but of course Windows XP is coming down, but still has a long way to go.

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Reports from several outlets yesterday indicated that Microsoft is in the final stages of the release of Windows Phone 7, their long anticipated answer to the Apple iPhone. Their holiday 2010 availability goal seems to be on target. Others are anticipating an earlier release, maybe as soon as October.

If we take Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows Phone Engineering, at his word when he wrote on the Windows Phone 7 Team Blog that Windows Phone 7 is the company’s most thoroughly tested mobile platform. He wrote that there were daily automated run tests on nearly 10,000 devices and a combined more than 3.5 million hours of stress test passes and 8.5 million hours of fully automated test passes. If everything works as intended, then the impact will be felt throughout the mobile community.

Windows Phone 7

Microsoft has many things going for it. For starters, the experience of other companies in their own foray has shown Microsoft what works and what doesn’t. So they can avoid the problems that other companies have had. Specifically, Apple’s antenna problem was a small choking point, which was eventually fixed. Microsoft can do well to avoid such missteps.

On the other hand, there should be a large collection of APPS available for purchase that will compete with Android, and the iPhone. Microsoft users, who have been patient throughout the time when Apple and Google were making hay with their mobile devices should be pleased that the device should be everything that they expect.

What do they expect? Multiple APPS for starters, but also connected to the wide array of Microsoft products that only Microsoft can offer. In that sense, Microsoft should be able to dominate the mobile market within a year. For Microsoft that is some heavy expectations.  However, considering how they botched their KIN phone earlier this year, they have a lot to make up for. Users will have to wait, maybe to the end of the year to discover what Microsoft has to offer.

Source: Microsoft

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