Vista
Vista goes up
The number of Windows Vista users is still growing but Microsoft's share of the overall market remains in a declining trend.
Net Applications report for February 2009 indicates that Vista has gained over the year almost 10 percentage points. Twelve months ago the Vista share was 12.9% and in February 2009 rose to 22.8%. At the same time we can observe a gradually decrease in the popularity of Windows XP (from 74.5% to 63.7%). All Windows systems market share fell from 91.5% to 88.4% within 12 months.
The end of the Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista
Yahoo has informed about giving up the development of a special version of its Communicator Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista. The version was once very popular - one of the first applications that use the full capabilities of the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - a built-in platform for developers to handle the user interface, in order to obtain rich graphical effects. Yahoo! says that the priority is to provide equally good version of Communicator in any system. In practice, however, the most likely factor was the low popularity of Yahoo Messenger for Vista.
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