Filed under: News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux
If you gauged the market share of various operating systems by counting the number of Macs vs PCs you see in the typical urban coffee shop, you'd probably believe that Apple and Microsoft were duking it out like Republicans and Democrats in a close US presidential election.
But the truth of the matter is that Microsoft is
the dominant company when it comes to consumer oriented computers. In fact, according to Net Applications, a company that tracks these things, Microsoft had
more than 90% of the market share. Until last month, anyway.
In November, 2008, Microsoft's market share dipped to 89.62%. Which is to say, Microsoft's Windows operating systems still dwarf the nearest competitors, Mac OS X and Linux. But a slightly smaller percentage of people who visited web sites tracked by Net Applications in November were using the operating system.
Net Applications reports that OS X has also seen a slight jump in usage, and that Windows Vista use is up while Windows XP use is down. More than 20% of computer users were running Windows Vista for the first time in November.
[via
Computer World and
Slashdot]
Windows market share reaches new low - 89.6% originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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