April Win8 market share rose to 3.8% weaker than the same period Win7

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Keywords Market share win8 win7
WIN8 market share April to 3.8% (Tencent Science and Technology map) Tencent Science and Technology (Lin Jingdong) Beijing time May 2 news, according to foreign media reports, according to market research company NET applications said that Microsoft's latest release of the Windows 8 system market share is gradually rising, However, its performance is still weaker than in the previous version, the Windows 7 system after the release of the same period of performance. According to the latest statistics released by NET applications in Wednesday, the Windows 8 system accounted for 3.8% of all traffic monitored by net applications in April, with a slight increase compared to 3.2% of the previous one months. After the Windows 8 system was released last November, the market share for the first month was 1.09%, and the second month, December's share grew to 1.72%, further increased to 2.26% in January this year, surpassing Mac OS X 10.8 and leaped to the fourth place in the market. February, its market share continued to grow to 2.7%. The statistics include the flow of platforms such as traditional PCs and touch-screen computers, with Windows 8 sharing a 0.02% share of the touchscreen PC platform in April, with a 3.8% market share. The Windows 8 system behaves significantly weaker than the Windows 7 system after it was released. These two systems were released in October of the year in which Windows 7 was published in October 2009 and Windows 8 was published in October 2012. By April 2010, the market share of Windows 7 had risen to 12%. Microsoft last year tried to use a large percentage of discounts to promote Windows 8 systems, and Windows 7, Vista, and XP users can buy Windows 8 Pro for 39.99 dollars. Users who purchased Windows 7 between June and January 31 of this year can purchase the Windows 8 system at a price of $14.99. But those offers expired in January this year, which means that users must pay 119.99 of dollars to buy the standard Windows 8 system and have to pay 199.99 dollars to buy a premium version of Windows 8 system. Microsoft is currently preparing for Windows 8.1, which will be released later this year. The upgrade of the Windows 8 system indicates that the software has been modified and perfected. It is said that Microsoft may add a "Start" button and the option to launch to the desktop to attract those who are not accustomed to using the start interface.
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