Star Windows' Market Share Slips Below 90%
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 3rd Dec 2008 23:47 UTC, submitted by shaneco
Microsoft The month of December has already been unkind to Microsoft. The software giant's Windows operating system and its Internet Explorer browser saw significant market share drops reported on back-to-back days. Not only was the November percentage drop for Windows the biggest in two years, but Windows market share dipped below a number where it has historically held tight: 90 percent. According to Web metrics company, Net Applications, Windows market share as of Dec. 1 is 89.6 percent. Meanwhile, Mac OS X posted its largest gain in two years, with 8.9 percent market share at the end of November.
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google_ninja
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2006-02-05

We need more diversity in the computing world. 90% windows 10% osx is nowhere near enough

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sbergman27 Member since:
2005-07-24

90% windows 10% osx is nowhere near enough

The "unassailable" IE was where Windows itself is now... and not too long ago. This brings cheer to my day. :-)

Edited 2008-12-04 00:27 UTC

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lemur2 Member since:
2007-02-17

"90% windows 10% osx is nowhere near enough
The "unassailable" IE was where Windows itself is now... and not too long ago. This brings cheer to my day. :-) "

It brings to me a glimmer of hope for the intellectual future. Possibly, finally, we may even see a gradual emergence out of the IT "dark ages".

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/a-microsoft-veteran-embrac...

"Microsoft, of course, has long been the archenemy of the open source community, which is built on the notion of freely sharing intellectual property for the good of the community. I.B.M. and Sun Microsystems have embraced the open source cause, as have other technology giants. Even Apple's OS X operating system is at its core open source - an Apple executive has said that more than 50 percent of the lines of code in OS X come from the open source Berkeley Software Distribution and related projects."


We need more diversity in the computing world. 90% windows 10% osx is nowhere near enough


When more people use Apple then Vendors and Websites need to support "other" platforms.

And that will hopefully lead to more open standards.


I don't mind Apple myself, but they have partially compromised themselves particularly in respect of DRM. But even so, still they are way better than Microsoft. "10% OSX" has got to be considered at least a small step in the sort-of-right direction.

Edited 2008-12-04 00:37 UTC

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