Tuesday, December 2nd 2008

Windows Market-Share Falls Below 90% Mark, Hits 15 Year Low

In the month of November, the market share of Microsoft Windows fell below the 90% mark, to 89.6%. This is a 15 year low in market share for the OS, according to market share data by Net Applications, sourced by TG Daily. The market share fell from its position same time, last year, at 92.4%.

One of the prime movers of this figure is the growth in market share of Apple's Mac OS X at 8.87%, slightly over 2% growth from its market share last year. According to the same data, Linux is still below the 1% mark.
Source: TG Daily
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"I go fast!1!11!1!"
mdm-adphWhile I don't agree with the premise of the Mojave commercials (I don't like the idea of someone tricking users into thinking they're using another OS when they're not -- I can put a WinXP skin on a copy of Ubuntu and show people some wiz-bang effects, but it doesn't mean they think Linux is great)...
I too don't agree with the approach but seeing how many people, for whatever reason, hate Vista, they probably couldn't get anyone to agree to sit down and try it. In that regard, it is effective. That is, it is effective at dispelling the misconception that Vista is unfathomably horrible.


They took the single-blind trial approach. Blind studies are cruel to the people involved due to intentional concealment or misinformation but they do effectively make a point. ;)
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