Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS Start the Market Share Ballet
At almost six months since it was initially introduced to the public in Beta stage, Windows 7 has gathered an audience almost half the size of all distributions of Linux available on the market, according to statistics from Net Applications.
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2.6.2009 Market Share Smackdown: Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1%
No, Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% is not a typo, neither the result of erroneous information. The fact is that there is a context where the open source operating system holds the lion's king of the market while Microsoft's proprietary platform is not the only dominant OS, but is reduced to a bottom feeder in terms of its install base.
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2.7.2008 Zune has chance to take iPod market share: survey
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. may have a chance to take market share from the iPod as a Reuters survey showed 35 percent of those interested in its Zune device would be replacing an existing digital music player.
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30.11.2006 Six reasons Microsoft will continue to lose market share
Microsoft has positioned itself at the top, a top that is targeted by hundreds if not thousands of companies.
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21.11.2008 Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share
In a rare bit of good news for Microsoft on the search front, web metrics firm comScore reported that for the month of March, Microsoft's search engines saw their first market share increase in nearly a year.
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19.4.2007 Windows market share drops to 15-year low
Earlier today, we reported that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has dropped below 70% for the first time nearly nine years.
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7.12.2008 Can Dell change the Linux market?
After a lot of hemming-and-hawing, Dell has decided to accept the verdict of its IdeaStorm users and sell pre-installed Linux.
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26.2.2007 Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac OS X
There has been a consistent amount of “ink” spilled over comparing Windows, Linux and Mac OS X this month. The reports have generated some controversy, because they point out that Windows delivers a more secure platform than Linux and Mac OS X.
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30.3.2007 Want Security? Drop Windows and Move to Linux, or Mac OS X
There is no silver bullet solution for security, and no foolproof client operating system. But the fact of the matter is that while neither Linux, nor Mac OS X and not even Windows Vista are panacea solutions for protecting users, they are all less attacked than Windows XP and older versions of the Microsoft platform.
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10.9.2007 Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X vs. Linux - for the Last Time in 2007
At the end of 2007 one thing is clear... Windows Vista is far from the Wow revelation that Microsoft aimed for with the late January worldwide consumer launch.
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1.1.2008 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 vs. Mac OS X and Linux
Despite constantly downplaying the relevance of Linux and Mac OS X, because of a variety of reasons, from high Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to security risks and inferior shipment volumes, Microsoft is well aware of the real threat to Windows represented by the open source platform and Apple's operating system.
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1.8.2008 Microsoft Brings a Piece of Windows Vista to Linux and Mac OS X
Microsoft has announced that it will bring a small piece of Vista to both the open source Linux operating system and the UNIX based Mac OS X. The Redmond company's partners will work to extend Network Access Protection to Linux and OS X desktops.
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13.11.2007 Mac OS X and Linux Continue to Erode Windows' Install Base
Apple'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.
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2.9.2008 Vista SP2 and Windows 7 More Secure than Linux and Mac OS X Leopard
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is the absolute apex in security when it comes down to operating systems, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft, has indicated at the Midmarket CIO Summit earlier this week.
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12.4.2009 Vista Growing to Match the Lack of Security of XP, Mac OS X and Linux
Microsoft has touted Windows Vista as the most secure Windows operating system available, ever since the debut of the Wow.
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15.8.2007 Linux and Mac OS X Eat Away at Windows, Even with XP SP3 and Vista SP1
Even with the latest service pack releases for the two supported Windows clients, rival operating systems Linux and Mac OS X are still eating away at the install base of Microsoft's proprietary operating system.
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3.7.2008 Mac OS X and Linux Left Scrambling for Wow Crumbs in the Windows Vista Dust
Microsoft is celebrating a veritable Windows Vista feast, while Mac OS X and Linux are left scrambling for Wow crumbs.
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2.11.2007 Mac OS X vs. Linux - Red Hat vs. Windows 98 and Above Including Windows Vista
Microsoft's Windows operating system came on top out of three different alternative platforms including Mac OS X, Linux (Red Hat), and Solaris 8/9/10, in terms of the volume of holes it contains.
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18.1.2008 Linux and Mac OS X Killing Windows Bit by Bit
Microsoft's Windows operating system continues its downward trajectory on a spiral that is seeing it continually losing “eyeballs.”
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2.12.2008 Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux
Newsflash from ASUS - the company is predicting that the XP Home version of the Eee PC will outsell the Linux-based version by 3 to 2.
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13.3.2008 Google to launch Android Market
Google is set to offer Android Market - its own App Store-like content distribution system for the Android mobile phone platform which will allow users to buy, download and install content for the upcoming Android devices.
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29.8.2008 Ballmer: Enterprise Tools Market Ours For the Taking
It's not often that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks development tools. But Ballmer is all fired up about the pending Visual Studio Team System and future potential enterprise tool revenues.
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20.11.2005 Intel to take 'Averill' to market as Centrino-like platform
Intel will next year launch its third branded PC platform, after Centrino and Viiv, this time pitched at corporate desktops.
As yet there's no word on the platform's go-to-market brandname, but it will almost certainly be based on Intel's 'Averill' platform. Averill was announced at the chip giant's Developer Forum in March this year for availability in 2006.
Averill is based on Intel's upcoming 'Broadwater' chipset, which will ship primarily as the 965 family, but also as the 946 and 963 product lines, it is believed. The platform also takes in Intel's next-generation Gigabit Ethernet controller, 'Nineveh', and its 65nm dual- and single-core Pentium D and Pentium 4 6xx processors.
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1.12.2005 Windows XP going off market in June: What it means
Well it looks like XP is about to disappear from stores coming this June. Oh what shall I do If I still don't want to migrate to Vista? Well actually it will probably still be for sale in stores and such but Microsoft itself will no longer sell it. Read on.
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18.4.2008 The anti-spyware market that never existed is officially dead
If anyone needed evidence that the standalone anti-spyware market is official dead (if it ever existed), along comes Webroot Software with Exhibit A, B and C:
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29.10.2007 Bing grabs 10 percent of search market
Microsoft's new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday.
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18.9.2009 YouTubers to get ad money share
People who upload their own films to video-sharing website YouTube will soon get a share of the ad revenue.
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28.1.2007 Live.com to get social - share your own pages
In a relatively un-noticed post on the Windows Live Gallery blog last week, a new feature called Windows Live Collections was mentioned. Collections are pre-made Live.com pages with feeds and gadgets that you can add to your own Live.com homepage.
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13.2.2007 Windows Embedded grew more than 200% in 2006 retail market
Windows XP Embedded shipments to North American retailers grew by 242 percent in 2006, while WEPOS (Windows Embedded for Point of Service) shipments grew 80 by percent, according to a new report from IHL Consulting Group. Last year's Windows Embedded growth trends are expected to increase even further this year.
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7.3.2007 Microsoft Eyes 40 Percent of Smartphone Market by 2012
Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said Tuesday.
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13.5.20082009: Linux and the desktop
Choosing a desktop platform usually involves the choice between Windows or Macintosh. There are a few factors which people consider when they are
choosing a desktop platform. In no particular order, people want application compatibility, stability, security, performance, and ease of use. When
we look at desktop market share, we can see the following (as of statistics reported in October of 2008): Windows boasts the lead with 91% market
share, down 5% from March of 2003. Mac holds 6% market share, an increase of 4% from March, 2003. Finally, Linux has doubled its market share since
2003 with a current 4%.
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02.01.2009Market Share 2007: Mac OS gains 3.15%, Vista grabs 10.48%
Throughout 2007, according to reports by Net Applications, Mac OS increased its market share by 3.15% while Vista managed to grab 10.48% market share.
Windows XP lost 8.39% of the OS market share in the same time period, quite unsurprising considering Vista is its successor, while Linux increased by
0.26%. Nothing too mind-boggling, but definitely interesting, to say the least. At the end of December 2007, the (incomplete) standings are as
follows:
Windows XP - 76.91%
Windows Vista - 10.48%
Mac OS - 7.30%
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09.01.2008Windows is Caught Between Mac and Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: On the high end, people are buying Macs instead of Windows PCs. On the low end, Linux is eating Windows alive.
For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a percentage of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the
Mac, but, while no one does a good job of tracking the still-new, pre-installed Linux desktop market, it's also clear that Linux is finally making
impressive inroads into Windows' once unchallenged market share.
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22.03.2008Windows, IE lose web share to Mac OS X, Linux, Safari, Firefox, iPhone
The trouble with having a huge market share is that the only way to move is down - and that's exactly what's happening to Windows and Internet
Explorer, according to an new report. The question is how much further are they going to fall?
According to the latest
Market Share report from Net Applications, Windows' share has dropped from 93.28 to
91.13 percent over the last 12 months. What's taking up the slack? Mostly Mac OS, with a little help from the iPhone. The Mac share has risen from
5.99 to 7.83 percent, and the iPhone's from 0.04 to 0.16 percent - but more of that later.
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02.06.2008Vista, Mac OS X gain users; Firefox loses market share
As Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
Vista and Apple Inc.'s Mac OS
X continued to grow their
share of the operating system
market last month, Mozilla
Corp.'s Firefox suffered its
biggest-ever drop in usage, a
Web metrics company reported.
By the end of May,
Vista accounted for 3.74% of
all operating systems on
machines connecting to Net
Applications Inc.'s clients'
Web sites. The total share for
Mac OS X -- which included
older editions running on
PowerPC processors as well as
version 10.4, or "Tiger," on
Intel-powered Macs -- was
6.46%. Vista was up about
three-quarters of a percentage
point from April, while Mac OS
X was up a quarter of a point.
Their gains came
largely at the expense of
earlier versions of Windows,
such as Windows XP and Windows
2000, although Net
Applications' "Other"
category, which is essentially
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19.06.2007Windows 7 surpasses Snow Leopard in under two weeks
In only two weeks since the official commercial launch of Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7 has managed to surpass Apple's Snow
Leopard market share. Snow Leopard has been on the market for three months while Windows 7 has only been on the market for two weeks. Microsoft
still stands dominant in the market share, holding strong at 92.52% of all computers in October, compared to Mac OS X with 5.27%, Linux with 0.96% and
1.25% with other operating systems. Windows 7 managed to surpass Snow Leopard's market share (1.17%); Windows 7 managed to grab 2.15% of the
market share, where Vista shows 18.83% and Windows XP with 70.48%.
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06.11.2009Is the "killer app" argument dead?
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The other day I was talking with a bunch of other tech heads about the ongoing Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux market share war and
why, from a stats point of view, that Mac and Linux were still trailing far behind Windows.
“It all revolves around killer
apps,” pipes up one of the tech heads. “The problem with both Apple and Linux is that neither OS has a compelling killer app driving the
user base.”
The conversation then went off on to discuss apps such as Photoshop and AutoCAD and how with Windows you have a
single unified platform that’ll run almost any professional grade package that you can think of, while with Mac and Linux your choices are
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19.08.2008Windows Vista and Mac OSX see surge in consumer use
While businesses and corporate entities may have little interest in using either Vista or Mac OSX, both are gaining popularity and market share but
only in the area related to home or home office use which is both good and bad.
Its good in the fact that Vista now has a 10%
market share in computers that are connected to the Internet, its bad that corporations are either not going to deploy Vista or have delayed
deployments so much that by the time it comes around again, Windows 7 may be out.
Mac OSX now has something in the area of a 7%
market share, Mac use has seen excellent growth over the past year but has not been without its
share of problems. Large corporations would never deploy OSX on a wide scale so that is not a concern there.
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03.12.2007Mac OS, Linux May Share a Windows Flaw
Microsoft Corporation recently announced plans to release a patch to reduce the risk of a new kind of Web-based security vulnerability, but security
researchers say that other operating systems are probably at risk too. Nathan McFeters, a security researcher with Ernst & Young Global Limited, is
one of the researchers who has been studying the problem most closely. He hopes to present more details on how Linux and Mac OS X may also be
susceptible to what are known as Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol handler flaws at the Toorcon hacking conference, being held next week in
San Diego. Although McFeters admitted he had not yet found a way to run unauthorized code on Unix-based operating systems, he and his fellow
researchers have discovered a number of issues that looked like they could be grounds for further research.
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13.10.2007Microsoft Holding Its Ground
on Office for Linux
Some prominent figures
in the Linux community believe
that as enterprises increase
their use of Linux on the
desktop, Microsoft Corp. will
be forced to consider offering
a version of Office for
Linux???or at least make its
software more interoperable
with open-source desktop
productivity
suites.
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When the [Linux desktop]
market share gets to a certain
point, Microsoft will, just as
it did with Apple [Computer
Inc.] in the past, make Office
available on Linux," Open
Source Development Labs Inc.
CEO Stuart Cohen told eWEEK in
a recent interview.
"I'm sure they
have done the work and that
they know what the market
numbers need to be for that to
be financially viable for
them. I really think that when
enough of their enterprise
customers' office workers,
help centers, IT and
engineering departments are
running Linux on the desktop
and interoperability really
becomes an issue, they will go
and listen to their
customers," he said,
acknowledging that he has no
evidence of any willingness on
Microsoft's part to allow
Office to run on top of Linux...
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06.09.2005Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server
Linux growth in the U.S. x86 server market has, over the past six quarters, started to falter and reverse its positive course relative to Windows
Server and the market as a whole.
The annual rate at which Linux is growing in the x86 server space has fallen from around 53
percent in 2003, when Windows Server growth was in the mid-20 percent range, to a negative 4 percent growth in calendar year 2006, IDC Quarterly
Server Tracker figures show.
Over the same time period, Windows has continued to report positive annual growth, outpacing the
total growth rate in the x86 market by more than 4 percent in 2006, indicating that Linux has actually lost market share to Windows Server over this
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26.10.2007Linux and Mac users will be "easy targets" for hackers
Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder of IT security company Kaspersky Labs, has
said Linux and Mac users will be “easy
targets” for hackers and malware writers over the next few years.
Linux and Mac users have enjoyed a secure past which has split
opinions across the world as to why this is the case. Some believe that malicious virus writers and hackers do not target Apple OSX as it has a small
percentage of the market share compared to Microsoft's Windows operating systems. The opposite opinion is that the Mac OS is inherently more
secure than that of Windows so the same attacks do not work.
Apple ran an ad campaign in the UK where
adverts claimed macs are not subjected to viruses. The Advertising Standards
Authority in the UK
cleared the adverts which
included a national press ad, a regional press ad, a poster and two Internet and cinema ads.
Kaspersky goes on to mention that "Modern
operating systems are flawed by design. Mac and Linux are not as secure as
think; criminals pay no attention to them at the moment, but they
will be vulnerable — easy targets. The problem is that customers design the operating systems (either within open source communities or via
market demand) and they choose flexibility over security.”
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neowin.net - 23.10.2008
Apple's US Market Share Slips in 1Q 2009
Gartner has released a href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=939015">preliminary report detailing U.S. and worldwide PC
shipments for the first quarter of 2009. The report pegs Apple's U.S. market share in fourth place among vendors at 7.4%, down from 8.0% in the fourth quarter of 2008. More
importantly, the report shows a slight decline in market share over the year-ago quarter, when Apple held 7.5% market share.
winbeta.org - 16.04.2009
Ballmer: Apple's Mac growth is a "rounding error"
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer is a man who's not afraid to talk down his competitors. When Apple initially released the iPhone, he stated that
it had no chance of gaining a significant market share. Now, when speaking to a group of market analysts, he has said that the growth that the
Cupertino company is seeing with their Mac product range can be attributed to a rounding error. Whilst he was at the 2009 Financial Analyst Meeting,
Ballmer said, "Share versus Apple, you know, we think we may have ticked up a little tick, but when you get right down to it, it's a rounding
error.
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neowin.net - 01.08.2009
Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
Windows Vista has probably
created the single biggest
opportunity for the Linux
desktop to take market share,
Cole Crawford, an IT
strategist at Dell, said in an
address titled, "The Linux
DesktopFact, FUD or Fantasy?"
at the annual LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo.
For example, a number
of companies have moved back
to Windows XP after deploying
Vista, Crawford said, before
quoting Scott Granneman, an
author, entrepreneur and
adjunct professor at
Washington University in St.
Louis, as saying, "To mess up
a Linux box, you need to work
at it; to mess up your Windows
box, you just have to work on
it."
Microsoft has also owned
the desktop for more than 15
years, Crawford said, "and so
the only way for them to go is
down. But Linux can only go
up, and its growth potential
is enormous. While Linux only
has 1 percent of share on the
desktop versus Microsoft's
more than 90 percent, that is
changing, and the Linux
desktop is expected to gain
some share over the next two
years," he said.
winbeta.org - 09.08.2007
Mac OS X market share growth stumbles
Apple Inc.'s operating system market share slipped last month as Microsoft Corp.'s Windows halted its slide for only the fourth time in the last 12
months, a research company reported.
In July, Apple's Mac OS X powered 7.76% of the computers that accessed the 40,000 sites Net
Applications monitors for its clients, the company said Friday. The Mac's share of the OS market was down 0.18 percentage points from June's 7.94%,
and was lower than May's 7.83%.
Windows, meanwhile, posted a small gain in overall share, climbing 0.13 percentage points from
June's 90.89% to end July with 91.02%.
winbeta.org - 05.08.2008
Linux x86 growth outpaced by Microsoft Windows
A recent IDC report showed
Linux servers continuing to
increase market share for x86
architecture with a second
consecutive quarter of
double-digit growth, but the
bigger news could be
Microsoft's even bigger surge
with Server 2003.
The
Redmond, Wash.-based software
giant's Server 2003 showed
modest gains in Q1, with IDC
reporting that Microsoft
Windows Server revenue was
$4.8 billion in Q1. This
number represents 10.4%
year-over-year growth and a
gain of 1.9 points of revenue
market share over the same
period in 2006. Windows
encompassed 38.8% of all
server revenue in Q1 of 2007.
However, the most
noteworthy accomplishment for
Microsoft was that --
according to IDC -- this was
the first quarter since that
firm started tracking Linux
server spending in 1998 that
Windows Server revenue grew
faster than Linux server
revenue. IDC noted Linux
server revenue reached $1.6
billion, which represented
growth of 10%. ..
winbeta.org - 11.06.2007
Google's Chrome browser heads toward Linux and Mac
While the current beta edition of Chrome currently runs on Windows only, open source developers -- including some from Mozilla -- are now working on
getting Google's new browser to operate on Linux and Mac, too...
betanews.com - 10.09.2008
October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux
Windows 7 arrived two weeks ago and so far it's selling quite sell. With Mac OS X
10.6 becoming available less than three
months ago, and Ubuntu 9.10 arriving last week, we feel it's a good
time to start watching the market share for operating systems, in addition to our monthly posts on browser market share. At this
point in time, Windows continues to dominate with more than 90 percent of the market, Mac OS is above the five percent mark, and Linux is just under
one percent. In October, Windows was the only operating system not to show positive growth.
winbeta.org - 06.11.2009
Apple's U.S. Mac market share rises to 8.1 percent in Q3
Apple Inc.'s share of the U.S. personal computer market for the third calendar quarter of 2007 was 8.1 percent, up from 6.2 percent during the same
period one year ago, according to results released from Gartner just minutes ago.
The Cupertino-based company's U.S. share grew
37.2 percent year-over-year -- more than twice as fast as any other manufacturer ranked in Gartner's top 5 PC vendors for the three-month period
ending September -- helping it snag a spot as the No. 3 U.S. PC vendor overall.
Apple's US-based Mac shipments during the
quarter total 1,338,000, compared just 975,000 during the same time last year. Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba also posted somewhat healthy growth during
the quarter of 16.5 percent and 16.3 percent to garner a 25.7 percent 5.7 percent share of the U.S. market, respectively.
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