Vista Taking a Nibble Out of Apple in OS Wars?

Posted by Zonk on Friday April 6, 2007 @07:08AM from the chomp-chomp-chomp dept.

PetManimal writes "Despite all of the positive buzz about the Mac operating system and the 'halo effect' of iPod sales, Mac OS X market share actually dropped last month, reports Computerworld: 'The share of PowerPC-based Macs fell ... from 4.29% in February to 3.94% in March. That dip was not fully offset by an increase in Intel-based Mac hardware, leading to a overall net decline in Mac share of 0.3%, to 6.08% in March.' Meanwhile, Vista is rising, the article says, with just over 2% of computers connected to the Internet using the new Windows OS. The figures are from a company called Net Applications, which collects its data from the browsers of visitors to its network of 40,000+ Web sites."

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PowerPC Macs? by Stubtify · 2007-04-06 07:18 · Score: 1, Redundant

Is it just me, or wouldn't you expect the percentage of powerPC based Mac computers to fall? I mean they don't sell anything with the chip in it anymore, so the number couldn't possibly go up.

Of course, it could be an oversight on the part of the writer/editor of the article, and he might have just used the wording to describe *all* macs, but either way, he's incorrect.