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

Posted by Soulskill on from the year-of-something-on-the-somethingtop dept.

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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  1. Re:Who has the market share? by vux984 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The only idiots who like using those "apps" are the ones who would probably be better off with a tablet or smartphone instead of an actual desktop computer,

    I like the netflix app, that's about it.

    Ok, maybe I'm just a bitter throwback who's resentful that my desktop is being marginalized.

    The pendulum looks to be swinging back towards sensibility from 8 to 8.1 to what we've seen of 9.

    Maybe it's also because I hate the new skeuomorphic design aesthetic.

    I don't think skeuomorphic means what you think it does.

    But regardless, for those in marketing change is king, so these things are cyclical, and we'll just endlessly circle around a good UI without ever settling down and saying "nailed it". :)

  2. Re:Who has the market share? by the_Bionic_lemming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's a shame.

    When i left Mac for windows in 1999 it was because windows had games - It wasn't hard for anyone who wanted computer games back then to make the decision - 3 aisles worth of windows games, or a shelf of mac games. I tell the mac (apple) lovers that the single biggest mistake apple did was to listen to the engineer that crapped on computer gaming.

    If Open source would focus on Gaming - then the masses WILL flock over and get on board. Make a Distro that ports games automatically - make it stupidly easy to use, and the market share of Apple and Microsoft will tank.

    Computer Gaming put Microsoft in the masses households. If it hadn't been for gamers, PCs would of still been a basement Nerd hobby today.

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