Microsoft’s Windows OS Market Share Decreasing
July 4, 2008 – 12:14 pmMicrosoft’s Windows OS market share is on the wane, according to a new study releases by Net Applications.
A decreasing percentage of the internet population is using Windows operating system with Apple’s Mac OS X seen as the main beneficiary from the drop in figures.
The data, collected from a base of “approximately 160 million visitors per month”, shows that Apple’s Mac OS X operating system market share in June came out at a record 7.94%, which is a 0.11 point increase over the previous month.
Linux stands at 0.80% market share, an improvement over the 0.68% recorded last month.
Windows machines dominate the market and came in at 90.89% - but down from 91.13% the previous month, following a two-year slow, but steady, decline.
If this pace continues, Windows users could drop below the 90% in the fourth quarter of this year.
Source:pocket-lint.co.uk
