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."

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Below 90% of web use only.

[Culture20]

FTA

In November, 89.6% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net Applications Inc. monitors [...]

It's been below 90% in terms of IP addresses for quite some time. Not a lot of websurfing is done on servers, cluster nodes, or routers.

Re:Pulling stats out of thin air

[east coast]

Hey now! People are being forced to buy the Windows Asus and are installing Linux over it. It's that damned Microsoft tax. Don't you know that? That's how MS and Apple keep the Linux marketshare down artificially. We all know this.

Damn it! It's a fact!

Re:Pulling stats out of thin air

[Enter the Shoggoth]

What is the difference? Aren't all facts true and aren't all true statements facts?

I am not a religious person, but by way of example; christians recognise the truth in transubstantiation when partaking in the sacrament of communion, yet it can hardly be claimed that factually wine becomes blood and bread becomes flesh.

Similarly, when a judge or a jury considers the facts presented to them by prosecutor and defender during a trial they are using those facts to attempt to find the truth, they are not using the truth to find the facts.

Unfortunately whilst the two notions are closely related they have become conflated in most peoples minds thanks to a not-very discerning media and not-very literate educational system.

Re:Pulling stats out of thin air

[JCSoRocks]

I am not a religious person, but by way of example; christians recognise the truth in transubstantiation when partaking in the sacrament of communion, yet it can hardly be claimed that factually wine becomes blood and bread becomes flesh.

FYI - that's catholics, not *all* christians believe that. Good example though!