Android is About To Eclipse Windows as the World's Most-Used Operating System (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday March 7, 2017 @06:00AM from the how-about-that dept.

John Falcone, writing for CNET: Android is poised to overtake Windows as the world's most-used operating system. That's the word from web analytics service StatCounter, which monitors worldwide web traffic with an eye towards device operating systems. The firm found that 37.4 percent of devices online were Android -- just a hair behind Windows at 38.6 percent. Perhaps the bigger concern for Microsoft are the trend lines, however: Windows is on a steady march down from 82 percent in 2012, while Android is mirroring it upward from 2.2 percent in the same 5-year period.

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YEAR OF LINUX ON THE TABLET by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-07 06:03 · Score: 2, Insightful

All hail Linus, creator of Linux! May he live long, and may he father many more kernel releases to come!
Dunno by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · 2017-03-07 06:05 · Score: 4, Insightful

Comparing apples and oranges makes a whole lot more sense than comparing two distinct OSes which run two distinct classes of devices.