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Market Share of Microsoft Windows May be Declining

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday May 04 2016, @08:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the they-had-a-good-run dept.

butthurt writes:

Venture Beat reports on "preview data that has NOT been reviewed by Quality Assurance" from Net Applications showing that, among desktop operating systems used for browsing the 40,000 participating Web sites, Microsoft Windows has fallen to 80.23% market share. The 1.22% decline from the previous month is unusual; Windows had been gradually losing share since November of 2007, when it was at 95.89%. OS X makes up 9.20% of the market (slightly less than Windows XP's 9.66% share) and Linux 1.56%.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:05PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Wednesday May 04 2016, @06:05PM (#341583)

    1.56% is actually kinda big. To put it another way: 1 in 64 people use Linux as a desktop OS.

    You think that is big, but I don't. I do not know anywhere near 64 people well enoughto discuss operating systems, but I know several, not all techies, who use Linux on a desktop or laptop. Anecdotal I know, but this is in the UK where people are particularly fond of Windows. If you had asked me to guess I would have said 5%.

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