NetMarketShare's closure announcement has received zero attention; their last set of released statistics, though, are a different matter

Days after posting their farewell until next time message, NetMarketShare's announcement they're shutting down after 14 years of service still hasn't generated a single tech media article or blog post (except, apparently, mine).

The evidence of NMS's influence, however, continues to trickle in,with the latest Chromium Edge browser numbers being the big story yesterday, and Wimdows 7's enduring popularity being the story today.

As reported by bleeping computer:

Windows 7 won't die, still second most popular operating system

According to NetMarketShare, Windows 7 saw a drop from 22.77% to 20.41% last month. The report shows that 20.41% of desktops still use Windows 7. Even worse, some are still using Windows XP, according to the report.

I can't help but wonder how bleeping computer will react next month, when they finally realize that frantically refreshing NetMarketShare.com isn't going to make the end-of-November numbers magically appear... because NMS aren't publishing any.

Also... in other news, Windows 7 is still the world's second-most-popular PC operating system, in spite of the fact that you can still get Windows 10 from Microsoft, for free (bleeping computer's article "helpfully" provides the steps). If you were wondering just how badly Microsoft pissed off their customers with the GWS fiasco... wonder no longer.