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Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share
ozmanjusri writes "Online market share of the dominant Windows operating system has taken its biggest monthly fall in years to drop below 90%, according to Net Applications Inc. Computerworld reports that Microsoft's flagship product has been steadily losing ground to Mac OS X and Linux, and is at its lowest ebb in the market since 1995. 'Mac OS X... [ended] the month at 8.9%. November was the third month running that Apple's operating system remained above 8%.' The stats show that while some customers are 'upgrading' from XP to Vista, many are jumping ship to Apple, while Linux is also steadily gaining ground. A Net Applications executive suggests the slide may be caused by many of the same factors that caused the fall in Internet Explorer use. 'The more home users who are online, using Macs and Firefox and Safari, the more those shares go up,' he said. November has more weekend days, as well Thanksgiving in the US, a result that emphasizes the importance of corporate sales to Microsoft."
This is good news. It surely means the year of the Linux Desktop is impending.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
OMG! Micro$oft is about ready to go under!!!! There's going to be huge consequences for our economy!!!! Send Steve Ballmer to DC in his private jet to throw some chairs around and get us $25 billion immediately!!!!
"The more home users who are online, using Macs and Firefox and Safari, the more those shares go up,"
Let me get this straight...if more people use a browser, then there are more people using that browser? Brilliant!
the year of... windows not on the desktop!
You're right. Windows should stay where it belongs--on servers and in embedded systems.
This guy's the limit!
Maybe at some point MS will become the underdog and /. will feature Apple stories with a pic of Steve Jobs as a borg. And a million Apple fans will cry out, as if suddenly stripped of their exclusive status symbol as the hip outsiders.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
When my aunt wasn't able to install her MS Money on Vista, she thought her world was on fire
"A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers." Hayek
*You* try writing a comment about either MS or Apple without using sarcasm. The temptation is just too strong for this mortal.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Yet, the cited study places a FreeBSD based OS at 10 times the Linux market share.
Apple is not a cult.
See, no sarcasm.
Oh, I see...
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
Eventually the sun will grow into a red giant and possibly engulf the Earth before burning out too.
Good thing they're spending $300 million more on marketing, then! Maybe that Mojave thing we keep hearing about will turn things around for them.
Yeah, I can't avoid the sarcasm either.
Developers: We can use your help.
There is no such thing as a bogus fact.
[citation needed]
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
Erm. Alright, let's try it another way:
Argh. I give up!
Yes the downfall of all those companies is Microsoft. What else? Oh wait - Fannie and Freddie - guess which OS was installed on most of their computers? Windows? There you go, MS causing another downfall. All of the auto makers were running Windows too, and look what happened to them! Most of the people who have had their houses foreclosed on, guess which OS they were running. Windows! Again the evil MS at work trying to destroy all of us!
But seriously, Microsoft does just fine screwing up on it's own merits. It doesn't need you attributing every single evil in the world back to it.
"But this one goes to 11!"
No, no, no. It's pronounced "DO-Apple-Y."
Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
I'm still sensing sarcasm in your post ;-)
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of cats. MEOW!!
Of course, it probably doesn't help MS that Vista isn't exactly setting the world on fire.
Put it in charge of fire control systems and it may.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.