Microsoft’s New Security Software and Windows 7 users

According to an article posted on the PC Pro website, almost half the users who have downloaded the free Microsoft Security Essentials have been running the new Microsoft operating system, Windows 7.

According to the percentages posted on the PC Pro website, a massive 44% of the downloads came from people running Windows 7, whilst XP came in second with 33% of the downloads, and Vista not even breaking past a quarter of the downloads at 23%.

Even though Windows 7 has had the most downloads of the security software, it is still receiving the least amount of threat detections at only 16%, whilst Vista is double this at 32% and XP having 52% of the detections. So readers, do these figures surprise you? Would you have imagined the figure to be much less seeing as Windows 7 still hasn’t been globally launched? Let us know about your thoughts on this!