Windows XP Falls Below 25% Market Share, Windows 8 Drops Slightly

An anonymous reader writes: Despite support for Windows XP finally ending three months ago, the ancient OS has only now fallen below the 25 percent market share mark. To add to the bad news for Microsoft, after only nine full months of availability, its latest operating system version, Windows 8.1, has lost share for the first time. For desktop browser share, Chrome is up, taking mostly from Internet Explorer and Firefox. For mobile browsers, Safari continues to fall while Chrome maintains strong growth.

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Re:Who has the market share?

[Khyber]

"OpenGL is considered by most game companies far worse."

Only because they have incompetent programmers that can't understand code closer to hardware than four levels of abstraction away, and don't understand how to write their own graphical extensions, which OpenGL supports, and will always kick DirectX's ass on.

Aka 99.9999999% of programmers out there aren't up to snuff, chuck. You're probably one of them. I know I am.

When small-time sceners can pack the graphic capability/scripting tools/audio capabilities of UT2K4 in fucking 96kbytes versus a few gigs... you're doing something fucking wrong. Thanks .kkreiger for showing us that.