Mac OS X and Linux Continue to Erode Windows' Install Base
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Recommended: Click here to check for outdated driversApple's Mac OS X and the open source Linux operating systems continue to erode the install base of Microsoft's proprietary platform. According to statistics made available by Net Applications, Windows accounted for a market share of no less than 93.06% back in August 2007.
ne year later, and all the available versions of Windows own just 90.66% of the operating system market – a consistent drop, which places Microsoft dangerously close to the 90% milestone. In fact, by the end of 2008, the Redmond company could see Windows' share of the OS market depreciate under 90%, if the current trends continue.
The release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 in March 2008 has done little to stop Mac OS X and Linux from gaining additional users. At the end of August 2007, Apple had 6.18% of the operating system market. A year later, and the Cupertino-based hardware company has managed to climb to 7.86% and, considering the explosion of the iPhone's install base to a high of 0.30%, it is now well over 8%. In fact the availability of the iPhone 3G has caused the phone's OS share of the overall market to jump over 58% just from July to August 2008.
According to Net Applications, at the end of the past month, Linux enjoyed a share of 0.93%. The distributions of the open source platform may very well still be under 1%, but the growth from August 2007 is nothing short of spectacular. Last year, Linux only owned a share of 0.47%. August 2008 has seen Linux's install base almost double compared to the same month of 2007, and September 2008 might very well see the platform over the 1% milestone.
Following the rollout of Windows Vista and the June 2008 retail and OEM availability cut-off date, Windows XP is down to just 69.49% in August 2008, having dropped from 79.66% in August 2007. During the same period Windows Vista has increased its market share from 7.41% to 17.85%. Microsoft has in fact been claiming since mid-2008 that it has sold in excess of 180 million licenses of Windows Vista.
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Comments(3)
jobs is in the process of making the same mistake he made so many years ago.
he
thought the "computer" was the wave of the future and not the software. he still thinks
that way. he would rather make money selling ridiculously high priced machines to make
his money than software. if he could see past his nose, he would realize that he could
make a killing releasing os x for use on pc's. with all the griping about vista right
now, the time is ripe for a second os. but jobs has always been a control freak that
way...
that maybe true but the task of supporting the thousands if not millions of variations of
hardware would detract from the over all user experience and stability of the os.
variations of hardware mostly exists in name only. there are technology standards that
are in use. the manufacture may change but the standard does not. you have only two
major cpu makers for the pc; intel and amd. both use the same instruction set
architecture. two major graphic chipset makers; nvidia and ati. so where are the
variations daleski? stabliity? stability is an issue for quality control which apple and
regular pc makers suppose to have.
apple uses the intel cpu which is x86.
nothing different from a regular pc.
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