Microsoft’s New Security Software and Windows 7 users
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Mark O'Gorman
Posted on: October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment
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!
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These numbers don’t surprise me at all. Look at the usage rates and they make sense. Many users (myself included) are very happy with XP and will not be upgrading anytime soon. That large pool of happy XP users will not be reducing drastically anytime soon. So, you have the newcomers wanting all the latest updates (Windows 7 users) int he lead, the die-hard XP users staying up to date, then the lowly Vista users (those poor, abandoned souls) pulling up the rear.