Techgage Readers Continue to Adopt Windows 7

About ten or so days ago, I posted some initial statistics regarding our readers Windows 7 usage, and since we’re two weeks into December, I feel like I have enough solid data to portray just how popular the latest OS is. If you’ll recall, in the first three days of the month, Windows 7 accounted for 23.80% of all our Windows users. Has anything changed? Well yes, but not for the worse.

To put things into perspective, of all our readers, 87.86% used a Windows OS between December 1 – 14. Of those, 28.23% were using Windows 7, 49.44% for XP, and 19.91% for Vista. The other 2.42% used various other versions, with the most popular being Server 2003, at 1.22%. So as you can see, Windows 7 usage hasn’t gone down, but rather up, so the growth still continues to be seen.

For alternative OSes, Linux is the second most popular on the site with 6.14% of our total visits, while Mac OS X sits in third with 4.89%. All other visits belong to mobile devices, the most popular being the iPhone, with Android and BlackBerry mixed in as well. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t distinguish between Linux distros, but of our Mac OS X readers, 47.30% were using Snow Leopard, with 36.17% on Leopard.

While we’re on some stats kick, how about some browser usage information? Mozilla’s Firefox has been in our top spot for a while, and that hasn’t changed, with 51.39% usage. Internet Explorer has experienced a rough decline this year, with a current usage of 30.37%. Google’s Chrome is growing in popularity fast, and that’s reflected in our stats, with its usage share of 8.99%. The fourth spot belongs to Opera, with 4.26%, with Safari taking the fifth spot with 3.70%.

I’m a bit of a statsaholic, so to take a deeper look at the trends throughout the year, I’d like to write a one-page article showing the real growth and declines with graphs, since it’s far easier to get the fuller picture that way. I think I’ll put something like this together in mid-January, after CES is all over and done with. So stay tuned, the results should be interesting!