Windows 8 and 8.1 Pass 15% Market Share, Windows XP Drops Below 20% Mark

An anonymous reader writes Everyone is well-aware by now that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have not seen the impressive adoption rate of their predecessor. Yet the duo had a particularly good run last month, finally passing 15 percent market share together. Together, they owned 16.80 percent of the market at the end of October, up from 12.26 percent at the end of September. Windows XP meanwhile dropped a whopping 6.69 points to 17.18 percent. The biggest catalyst for these changes was most likely back to school sales in September, which are better reflected in the data after students use their new machines for a full month.

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Re:Mac won the desktop Unix battle

[Anonymous Coward]

Mac didn't win the "desktop Unix" battle. It won the non-Windows desktop manager battle. It's not really a Unix desktop, it just sits on top of a Unix subsystem, much like how Android sits on top of Linux. The only difference is that it more of the userland apps, which are rarely ever used by anyone who isn't a developer. But it doesn't adhere to a Unix philosophy at the high level, so it's not a proper Unix desktop. Try running Unix apps, and it has to start a proper Unix desktop to do so.

XP is better

[Lehk228]

i would rather deal with unsupported XP with viruses than the steaming dog turd called windows 8. it was the most infuriating UI I have ever had the displeasure of using, and I lived through the rise and fall of macromedia flash websites