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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by JohnTHaller on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @05:56PM (#7519351)
I get downvoted to 0 or below on Hacker News every time I point it out along with the fact that Net Applications is more accurate because it measures visitors instead of hits. It's likely some of the same people who downvote and refuse to believe that every character of every URL in Chrome is sent to Google with prediction on (the default).

It's funny, some people desperately need to believe that Chrome is the most popular browser and does no wrong just because they use it.

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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by Gracana on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:44PM (#7533835)
Huh, no kidding. Well if you ever need more evidence, ars technica does really nice articles on browser market share, like this one: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/window...
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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by JohnTHaller on Saturday April 05, 2014 @01:52PM (#7537817)
That article uses the same data from Net Applications (via NetMarketShare). The Chrome 'true believers' will find some way to explain it away because it doesn't fit their world view. I wonder if they believe if evolution? :)
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