Peter Terpstra
2009-06-03 09:13:33 UTC
Windows market share dives below 90% for first time
By Gregg Keizer
ON THE WEB, 1 December 2008 (Computer World)
Microsoft Corp.’s Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in
the past two years, erasing gains made in two of the past three months and
sending the operating system’s share under 90% for the first time, an Internet
measurement company reported today.
The decrease was the largest slip by Windows in the past two years.
In November, 89.6% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net
Applications Inc. monitors did so from systems powered by Windows, a drop of
0.84 of a percentage point from October. The decrease was the largest slip by
Windows in the past two years and easily bested other recent down months,
including May 2008 and December 2007, when Windows lost 0.51 and 0.63
percentage points, respectively.
Apple Inc.’s Mac OS X, meanwhile, posted its biggest gain in the same two-year
period, growing by 0.66 percentage point to end the month at 8.9%. November
was the third month running that Apple’s operating system remained above 8%.
Vince Vizzaccarro, Net Applications’ executive vice president of marketing,
attributed Windows’ slip to some of the same factors he credited with pushing
down the market share of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. “The more home
users who are online, using Macs and Firefox and Safari, the more those shares
go up,” he said. November was notable for a higher-than-average number of
weekend days, as well as the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., he said.
Windows’ share typically falls on weekends and after work hours, as users surf
from home computers, a larger percentage of which run Mac OS X than do work
machines.
Net Applications also noted a small boost in market share for the open-source
Linux operating system.
Notable in Windows’ downturn was a dramatic drop in share of the aged Windows
XP — the largest decrease since January 2008 — and a major uptick in Windows
Vista’s share. While XP lost 1.81 percentage points, Vista gained back 1.16
points of that, its largest move since last January.
Windows 2000, the only other edition that Net Applications tracks, continued
its slide toward 1%, falling to 1.56% during November.
As expected, Vista cracked the 20% mark for the first time last month, ending
November with a 20.45% share.
Windows’ share shows no sign of stopping its slow slide; in the past 12
months, Microsoft’s market share has fallen from 91.79%, a decrease of more
than 2 percentage points. During the same period, Apple has increased its
operating system market share by 1.56 points, or a gain of 21.3%.
Net Applications also noted a small boost in market share for the open-source
Linux operating system, which grew from 0.71% in October to 0.83% last month.
In August and September, however, Linux had a share above the 0.9% mark.
Operating system market share data is available at Net Applications’ site.
Bron:
http://www.tibetsun.com/tech_news/2008/12/01/windows-market-share-dives-
below-90-for-first-time/
By Gregg Keizer
ON THE WEB, 1 December 2008 (Computer World)
Microsoft Corp.’s Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in
the past two years, erasing gains made in two of the past three months and
sending the operating system’s share under 90% for the first time, an Internet
measurement company reported today.
The decrease was the largest slip by Windows in the past two years.
In November, 89.6% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net
Applications Inc. monitors did so from systems powered by Windows, a drop of
0.84 of a percentage point from October. The decrease was the largest slip by
Windows in the past two years and easily bested other recent down months,
including May 2008 and December 2007, when Windows lost 0.51 and 0.63
percentage points, respectively.
Apple Inc.’s Mac OS X, meanwhile, posted its biggest gain in the same two-year
period, growing by 0.66 percentage point to end the month at 8.9%. November
was the third month running that Apple’s operating system remained above 8%.
Vince Vizzaccarro, Net Applications’ executive vice president of marketing,
attributed Windows’ slip to some of the same factors he credited with pushing
down the market share of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. “The more home
users who are online, using Macs and Firefox and Safari, the more those shares
go up,” he said. November was notable for a higher-than-average number of
weekend days, as well as the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., he said.
Windows’ share typically falls on weekends and after work hours, as users surf
from home computers, a larger percentage of which run Mac OS X than do work
machines.
Net Applications also noted a small boost in market share for the open-source
Linux operating system.
Notable in Windows’ downturn was a dramatic drop in share of the aged Windows
XP — the largest decrease since January 2008 — and a major uptick in Windows
Vista’s share. While XP lost 1.81 percentage points, Vista gained back 1.16
points of that, its largest move since last January.
Windows 2000, the only other edition that Net Applications tracks, continued
its slide toward 1%, falling to 1.56% during November.
As expected, Vista cracked the 20% mark for the first time last month, ending
November with a 20.45% share.
Windows’ share shows no sign of stopping its slow slide; in the past 12
months, Microsoft’s market share has fallen from 91.79%, a decrease of more
than 2 percentage points. During the same period, Apple has increased its
operating system market share by 1.56 points, or a gain of 21.3%.
Net Applications also noted a small boost in market share for the open-source
Linux operating system, which grew from 0.71% in October to 0.83% last month.
In August and September, however, Linux had a share above the 0.9% mark.
Operating system market share data is available at Net Applications’ site.
Bron:
http://www.tibetsun.com/tech_news/2008/12/01/windows-market-share-dives-
below-90-for-first-time/