Windows 8 was released at the end of last year to mixed reviews. It offered users a lot of enhancements and new features, but also included a bunch ofunpopular features and UI tweak that users would rather have removed. Understandably, it had a pretty sluggish adoption rate at first reported often as being accepted even slower than the much maligned Vista.
Though it still has a relatively small chunk of the desktop market share, Windows 8 has made strides. Windows 8 has finally overtaken Apple having a larger share than all versions of Mac OS X combined and it's user base continues to grow.
There are a few reasons why Windows 8's popularity has grown. Chief among those reasons is the release of a major feature update with Windows 8.1. In one fell swoop Microsoft added many new features, tweaked user interface issues and addressed a lot of user complaints.
Though Windows 8.1 isn't perfect, it is a major improvement. The addition of a Start button makes navigating between the Start screen a desktop much more intuitive. Microsoft also included a bunch of desktop features allowing users to boot directly to the desktop and disable hot corners at will. On top of that 8.1 also bundled a few useful apps that add a bit of value.
On the app front Windows 8 has also made a bunch of improvements. The operating system is designed largely to integrate mobile apps, but the Windows Store was slow to offer a lot of the big titles that users were itching for. Now that Twitter, Facebook and a number of other high big names have thrown an app into the Store Windows 8's modern apps seem a lot more valuable than they did at the beginning of the year.
Windows 8 still has a long way to go to catch up to its predecessors. Though it's gaining momentum, it's measly 8% share pales in comparison to XP's 30% and Windows 7's 47%. Windows XP's end of life may push a few users towards Windows 8, but it may just as easily buff Windows 7 which is shaping up to be the next XP.
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