Microsoft Windows losing market share to Apple

OS share dips below 90%

Microsoft Windows losing market share to Apple
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2 December 2008 17:09 GMT / By Katie Scott

A few percentage points may not seem like a big deal, but analysts are still pouncing on the fact that Microsoft Window's share of the operating system market has fallen below 90%.

This is the first time this has ever happened and took place in November, according to Net Applications.

Windows accounted for 89.6% of computers accessing the web last month said the research firm, which monitored 40,000 websites to establish market share and trends.

The November figure was a 0.84% drop from October and was significant because it was the largest Windows market share decline since 2006.

And it's Apple that's benefiting who had won 8.9% of the market by the end of November.

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  • Sure Linux didn't help any? There is a lot of people running Linux these days, more than you would think, they just don't show up as much as Windows or Mac. I do know that Linux is hard to keep track of since it can run IE7. I need the windows IE for some websites who are really gay and force you to use IE. (it can run windows based web browsers is my point.)
    You can see the percentage of Linux users in games with native Linux clients. About 30% of the gamers playing epic or id software games are running Linux vs 60% running windows about 10% Mac. The rest of the percentage goes to console systems.     Posted by DIRT, USA

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