What's wrong with Windows 7? The majority of the world runs Windows and 7 is a fine choice. It's rock solid and there's really no reason to upgrade to 8.
I think W7 is the de facto for businesses now.
Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better.
Not passing judgment on one or the other, just thought it an interesting realization.
For what it's worth, I run Windows on a virtual machine to do some stuff and I use 7.
Or, rather, people have different definitions of better. For many people, cost and stability are huge components of their personal calculation. I think it would be more appropriate for you to say:
having something incrementally NEWER
Here are some screen shots from my analytics.
OS: http://i.imgur.com/oZNOxCK.png
Browser: http://i.imgur.com/84DGWHz.png
HN could use the user's ISP to guess whether they were home or at work, then correlate that with OS data.
That's actually an interesting idea!
If this were truly the case, they wouldn't be using Windows. It's mostly inertia in large organizations and for the general public.
As good as *nix/Apple stuff is, is it really feasible to run it at scale across an org, without building custom deployment tools each time?