retroremakes
February 9th, 2010, 16:30
Most of the gamers I knew stuck with XP during the Vista's time because it drained precious CPU cycles, but that's not the case here: Steam's released their latest stats on Windows usage, Windows 7 (http://gizmodo.com/tag/windows7/) has already blown past Vista.
The stats break down this away: 42.78 percent on XP, 28.53 percent on Windows 7, and 27.91 percent on Vista. Consider that Vista's been out 3 years, and Windows 7's been out for 3 months. Also worth pointing out is that Windows 7 installs are 64-bit by a 2-to-1 margin, which as Ars notes, is now the most popular flavor of Windows on Steam short of XP 32-bit.
The gaming population on Steam isn't necessarily representative of Moms and Dads buying computers, but the fact that the deeply suspicious PC gaming community has picked up Windows 7 in droves does say something. [Ars (http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/windows-7-eclipses-vista-on-steam-64-bit-dominating-32-bit.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)]
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The stats break down this away: 42.78 percent on XP, 28.53 percent on Windows 7, and 27.91 percent on Vista. Consider that Vista's been out 3 years, and Windows 7's been out for 3 months. Also worth pointing out is that Windows 7 installs are 64-bit by a 2-to-1 margin, which as Ars notes, is now the most popular flavor of Windows on Steam short of XP 32-bit.
The gaming population on Steam isn't necessarily representative of Moms and Dads buying computers, but the fact that the deeply suspicious PC gaming community has picked up Windows 7 in droves does say something. [Ars (http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/windows-7-eclipses-vista-on-steam-64-bit-dominating-32-bit.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)]
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