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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.
Linux suffers from inaccessibility to software
I strongly disagree(actually by definition this is false). Linux never suffered from inaccessibility, you *ALWAYS* had your repositories full of software.
People often forget that even the repositories of a Linux distro are a form of walled garden.
Installing software from outside sources can still often posit some significant difficulties.
Under Windows, starting any third-party "setup.exe" has a good chance of installing the program properly with a few simple mouse clicks. Under Linux, you have to manually verify that the library dependencies are met, and then you find out that the installer is some hacked-together shell script which a prints a bunch of weird "Directory or filename not found" and "Invalid argument" messages.