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Windows Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90% (venturebeat.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the cloudy-with-a-chance-of-Windows dept.

An anonymous reader quotes VentureBeat's new article about desktop operating systems: Windows 7 is still the king, but it no longer holds the majority. Nine months after Windows 10's release, Windows 7 has finally fallen below 50 percent market share and Windows XP has dropped into single digits. While this is good news for Microsoft, April was actually a poor month for Windows overall, which for the first time owned less than 90 percent of the market, according to the latest figures from Net Applications.

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  1. Re:Why would anyone want Linux on the desktop? by nukenerd · · Score: 1, Troll

    Linux is hard to configure ..[blah, blah, blah]... Can anyone tell me why Linux is a good choice on the desktop?

    Oh God, here we go again with the flamebait shills.

    If you really want an answer to your question, why not use the search function here? Perhaps we should make this a FAQ.

  2. The glass is half empty by Gumbercules!! · · Score: 1, Troll

    Another way to view this information is more people use Windows 95, 98 and 2000 than people use Linux, on the desktop. :-P