Windows Drops Below 90-Percent Market Share

[cookoy]

if mobile OSs are also included, what about Symbian? isn't Android a Linux derivative? whatever, microsoft hold on the OS world is diminishing but it is still the dominant player today.

 

[f-14]

iOS? really? really? you count stuff like that then you better included every console ever made
XboxOS
playstationOS
what else can browse the web play music, movies and games?
oh yeaah
WebTVOS

 

[slothy89]

The article is flawed. You can NOT consider iOS, Android, or any other smartphone OS as a desktop OS, ever! They are Mobile OS's, Can you install iOS on an iMac? pfft you wish..

if you break it down to the true Desktop OS's, Windows is still at 93.53% market share.. Mac at 5.47% and Linux at 0.99%

Now I am aware this adds to 99.99% rather than 100%, but that's just rounding error 😉

 

[molo9000]

[citation][nom]Sabiancym[/nom]Now let's look at market share among users who actually know how to do more than click icons on a desktop.Windows - 98%Linux 2%[/citation]

Yeah... that's why my software engineering prof uses a Mac...... and a huge number of people at the informatics / electrical engineering faculty at my university.

 

[slothy89]

[citation][nom]Sabiancym[/nom]Now let's look at market share among users who actually know how to do more than click icons on a desktop.Windows - 98%Linux 2%[/citation]
if you really want to go that far, you should expand Linux to be Unix OS's as Mac's are used by the tech literate too mate. Being a net admin myself, the entire network is OS X based. XServe's and everything. In terms of command line work, Unix is more powerful than Windows any day. I use Windows at home for my gaming rig and everyday use. But in a corporate environment, OSX is actually really good. Even if you have to use a VM to run the Finance app... but hey, cant have everything

 

[snoogins]

Regardless of what os's were used, linux was used, and its under 1%.

 

[tonitelaoag]

i will always use my windows more than mac os as jed stated

I want to be able to:
1. Run any hardware
2. Have inexpensive upgrade options
3. Play any Game
4. DO WHATEVER THE F*** I want to do on my Computer.
Compatibility is the strength of windows,
take it away and you end up like chrome os and linux period

 

[aaron88_7]

[citation][nom]megamanx00[/nom]iOS? Seriously? WTF?Poor Linux. Under 1% is just sad . Of course, if Andriod makes some gains you could consider that linux ^_^[/citation]
Linux's low market share has more to do with the Linux community refusing to produce a brand of Linux that is truly consumer ready material. Sorry, but I don't care what anybody says about Ubuntu, any OS that requires the use of command line in 2011 will never see a market share above 1%, and I strongly believe the Linux community fully understands this and likes it this way.

The Linux community seems to be so anti Microsoft that they would prefer ridiculously confusing software over something that might dare resemble Microsoft's operating system. At the end of the day if someone needs real productivity they are going to use either a Microsoft OS or Apple, but nobody serious about productivity is going to bother entering int sudo apt bla bla bla into a command line just to run some basic programs.

I'd love to see a serious contender in the form of Linux, but that'll never happen. Thankfully Google is working on their own, sort of open source operating system, but that's still many years away from being a serious contender in the OS field.

As for this graph including phone OS's, if people use their phone more than their Windows based PC then that data needs to be included. Obviously it skews the results a bit, but if we want a graph to show how people are spending their time then smart phones and tablets should be included.

 

[slothy89]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]*Snip*
As for this graph including phone OS's, if people use their phone more than their Windows based PC then that data needs to be included. Obviously it skews the results a bit, but if we want a graph to show how people are spending their time then smart phones and tablets should be included.[/citation]But if I have been using Windows since '95, and now own an iPhone, this pushes Windows down even though I am the same person, and I still use Windows, so my share in Windows is still there. Thus bloating the stats.

To demonstrate your point correctly, you would need to do a survey to see which OS each individual person uses most. To rule out duplicate users on multiple platforms. As I could guarantee you that there is many many more "copies" of each OS combined than there are living people on the planet. Third World included of course

 

[Guest]

Molo9000: Your professor is clearly a douche, no real developer uses a Mac. The only people who write serious applications for Mac is Apple, everyone else makes crappy ports of their Windows applications, with less performance and more bugs...

Siothy89: Clearly executive management at your job are among the very few people that apple managed to dupe into buying their server hardware... which is why Apple has now discontinued the Xserve. Besides, OSX is not a real UNIX OS for serious use, hence the following marketshare stats:

External Web Servers: Linux: 90% Mac: 0.00001%(just apple.com)
Intranet Web Servers: Windows: 70% Linux 20% various non-Mac-Unices:10%, OSX: 0%
Super Computers: Linux 90%: Mac: 0%
NAS: Mac 0% everyone else 100%

 

[phate]

"any OS that requires the use of command line in 2011" How many times has this been refuted? You never have to enter the command line in Ubuntu. You CAN use the command line, and it can make things easier. Hence people may direct you to it.

I manage an IT department for a small business (~50 employees) and all our office machines run Ubuntu, and I guarantee nobody uses the command line.

 

[pelov]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]Linux's low market share has more to do with the Linux community refusing to produce a brand of Linux that is truly consumer ready material. Sorry, but I don't care what anybody says about Ubuntu, any OS that requires the use of command line in 2011 will never see a market share above 1%, and I strongly believe the Linux community fully understands this and likes it this way.[/citation]

You don't have to use the console/terminal whatsoever. Everything can be done via the UI and double clicks. This isn't Linux in the mid 90s anymore. But frankly, I've found using the terminal easier for installing/removing apps. In windows you don't even have the option of a software center at all. You have to get it via media (cd/dvd/usb) or download the program via the web after searching for it > downloading the .exe > installing .exe in proper directory. If it doesn't work then send an error report to windows. With Linux you simply type the terminal command to see exactly why the program doesn't work! It outputs the data, post on the forums and you've received your help. With windows you click "send error report" and you've achieved absolutely nothing. Thank you, but I'll keep my terminal.

But in one sense you're right. The Linux distros aren't exactly targeting the noobies. The distros I've used require at least a bit of knowledge to get everything working, but that blame lies mainly on software/hardware developers. It's not exactly Ubuntu's fault that nvidia's proprietary drivers are having issues with linux, or Ubuntu's fault that autocad/sketchup won't work on their OS. In some cases the open source drivers work better than the one's released by hardware developers. One distro that dwarfs the rest would help immensely; whether that will happen anytime soon I just don't know.

If the number of linux users were increased by 5-10% you would certainly see the devs paying more attention to releasing a working product that works on *all* distros of linux. Simply because you run ubuntu doesn't mean you can't open an RPM or .tgz and that's the beauty of Linux. Though the distros may vary quite extremely there's still cross-compatibility.

As for apple... Their business practices are dirtier than microsoft's. I tend to steer away from all of their products.

 

[vyktor1980]

good job microsoft 😉.keep up the good work ).windows have directx and that's one of the big reason for his popularity and succes.but loocking at the facts now that in a few mounths we will be at the third generation of directx 11 gpu's and only a hand of directx 11 compatibile games.lot's of console ports and canceled pc games.that's no way to treat youre customers...sorry for my bad english

 

[ivan_chess]

[citation][nom]molo9000[/nom]Yeah... that's why my software engineering prof uses a Mac...... and a huge number of people at the informatics / electrical engineering faculty at my university.[/citation]


They probably just use the UNIX command line anyway.

 

[Tomtompiper]

Nokia are moving to Linux for their Smart Phones, Meego, Android is Linux, Mac OS is BSD, which relies heavily on Linux, Intel are sharing development of Meego with Nokia and Linux PC's are less likely to be used for Gaming or Home PC's and as these OS share figures are usually generated by percentage of visits to a mix of corporate and commercial web sites it skews the true figures for Linux use. Those in the know like a certain well paid CEO of Microsoft put the real market share for Linux at 5% This will grow rapidly with the emergence of Honeycomb and Arm Dual core Tablets, we live in interesting times.

 

[jrtolson]

just 90% to go then?

 

[wunderkinder]

Chrome OS isn't going to go anywhere with all the tablets coming out..Chrome OS seems like a gimp piece of software, a glorified browser. Windows will hold the desktop OS market for years. Since Windows holds the business world by the balls, windows is not going away.

 

[duk3]

iOS=/=a computer operating system

And more people should use linux, the only reason I have windows is games.

 

[blackjellognomes]

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]As for this graph including phone OS's, if people use their phone more than their Windows based PC then that data needs to be included. Obviously it skews the results a bit, but if we want a graph to show how people are spending their time then smart phones and tablets should be included.[/citation]Perry does state that the graph is meant to display the breakdown of the desktop OS market. In this case, mobile OS data definitely shouldn't be included, not only because it's misleading, but also because it simply has no place in this chart. This is NOT a graph that shows how people are spending their time, because we would have double counting and disproportionate representation of time.

 

[ProDigit10]

if ios is in there, then google os, and android is in there too!
And we know there are perhaps more intelligent phones out there than laptops, or desktops.