{"id":11856,"date":"2011-10-13T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2011-10-13T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T10:31:08","slug":"windows-7-overtakes-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11856","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Overtakes Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a story on <a href=\"http:\/\/royal.pingdom.com\/2011\/10\/12\/windows-7-just-became-the-most-widely-used-desktop-os-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">pingdom<\/a> that says, based on web analysis:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWindows 7 launched in October of 2009, then\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Within three months, it overtook Mac OS X. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Within 10 months, it overtook Windows Vista. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Now, two years after its launch, it\u2019s finally overtaken Windows XP\u201d.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They\u2019ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/royal.pingdom.com\/2011\/10\/12\/windows-7-just-became-the-most-widely-used-desktop-os-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">more info and some nice graphs<\/a> that tell us Windows 7 is 40.39% of web traffic (XP is 38.34% and Vista is 11.3%).<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:425b1573-0e00-4d73-ba4e-240dd9b3330b\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+7\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 7<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a story on pingdom that says, based on web analysis: \u201cWindows 7 launched in October of 2009, then\u2026 Within three months, it overtook Mac OS X. 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