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posted by martyb on Friday January 10 2020, @09:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-Linux-owns-the-phones dept.

2019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop:

Windows 10, the operating system that Microsoft officially launched in mid-2015, became the number one desktop platform in 2020 after it managed to overtake its predecessor Windows 7.

[...] NetMarketShare [reports] Windows 10 started the year with 40.90% market share before dropping to 40.30% the next month. It reached a market share of 54.30% in November and ended 2020 with a personal record of 54.62%.

Windows 7, on the other hand, lost market share throughout the year, obviously because of the approaching end of support set for January 14. Windows 7 was running on 37.19% of the devices worldwide 12 months ago and then dropped gradually to a market share of 26.64% in December. With less than two weeks left until the end-of-life is reached, the market share of Windows 7 is very likely to continue going down, albeit not all devices will be upgraded before this milestone is reached.

Needless to say, the rest of the operating systems are far behind and pose no threat to the dominance of Windows 10. For example, Windows 8.1 is running on just 3.63% of the systems worldwide, while macOS 10.14 has a market share of 3.50%.


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  • (Score: 5, Touché) by Grishnakh on Saturday January 11 2020, @01:11AM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday January 11 2020, @01:11AM (#942107)

    The Ferengi clearly were intended to represent Jews, and Star Trek made no attempt to hide this.

    No, the Ferengi were intended to represent late 20th-century Americans.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11 2020, @02:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11 2020, @02:00AM (#942113)
    Probably they were to represent an earlier, younger and hungrier capitalism - like today's China. The USA is old now, everything is wrapped up in red rape, and people usually value good life more than money. The real sharks, worthy of the title of honorable Ferengi, are one in ten thousand.