Windows 7 loses to Windows XP by a 750% margin

While Microsoft is boasting a good adoption of its latest operating system Windows 7 saying that the company has sold over 240 million licenses this year, the new research reveals that Windows XP still remains the king with the businesses giving it much preference. The report shows that XP beats Windows 7 by a margin of 7.5 to one.

The report from Forrester titled ‘Updated 2010: Windows 7 Commercial Adoption Outlook’ says that Windows 7 "powers one out of every 10 PCs within North American and European companies." Windows XP, the report says, powers 75%.

Even though most of this coverage is due to installed base even on new PCs enterprises prefer to use Windows XP shying away from Windows 7 deploying it only for 31% of new machines. The report says that within a year, 83% of new PCs going into businesses will run Windows 7.