Throughout 2007, according to reports by Net Applications, Mac OS increased its market share by 3.15% while Vista managed to grab 10.48% market share. Windows XP lost 8.39% of the OS market share in the same time period, quite unsurprising considering Vista is its successor, while Linux increased by 0.26%. Nothing too mind-boggling, but definitely interesting, to say the least. At the end of December 2007, the (incomplete) standings are as follows:
Windows XP - 76.91%
Windows Vista - 10.48%
Mac OS - 7.30%
Windows XP - 76.91%
Windows Vista - 10.48%
Mac OS - 7.30%
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And this small trickle of users are coming at the expense of...? Yup. Microsoft. Maybe someday soon we will have a more competitive computing market than we have had the past 10 years.
And this small trickle of users are coming at the expense of...? Yup. Microsoft. Maybe someday soon we will have a more competitive computing market than we have had the past 10 years.
That wouldn't be that much of a good thing as you may be thinking as the software would then have to be ported yet onto another system. (ex. Mac OSX)
It also means that while XP/Vista numbers may be up due to Mac users dual-booting, Mac OS numbers will also be up a slight amount due to the increasing number of individuals who are discovering just how simple it is to install Tiger or Leopard on their non-Apple PCs. I'm fully aware this is a violation of Apple's license agreement, but that doesn't stop people from doing it!
It's not quite as difficult now that EFI emulation has been achieved. You can install regular (i.e. unmodified) kernels and apply system updates without any problems. Unsupported hardware is usually the only barrier, and most of the time it's for hardware that wouldn't be on a Mac anyway, such as card readers and gaming devices, etc.
We still have a few Win98 machines at work (Which are getting replaced/removed very very soon, but still, they're there, and they're online.)
we had a presentation one day. i had my powerpoint on a usb. the dam thing wouldnt recognize it...
had to do the presentation w/o visuals, lost a crapload of marks there...
and two weeks later she gets a new laptop w/ xp
i didnt think the vista numbers would be THAT low
im surprised, and yet not at the same time
it should be higher!!
A good client metric, though.
A good client metric, though.
yep,at the enterprise market linux does play a great role.
most pofessional users and developers work on linux
A good client metric, though.
yep,at the enterprise market linux does play a great role.
most pofessional users and developers work on linux
Um, ok... I have nothing against Linux, but I don't think most professionals use it. I'm sure there's a wide spread of OSes pros use, even Amiga and Be still.
A good client metric, though.
yep,at the enterprise market linux does play a great role.
most pofessional users and developers work on linux
Um, ok... I have nothing against Linux, but I don't think most professionals use it. I'm sure there's a wide spread of OSes pros use, even Amiga and Be still.
in my country it is. OS here is not popular at all!
Last edited by aclca on 09 Jan 2008 - 04:04
A good client metric, though.
yep,at the enterprise market linux does play a great role.
most pofessional users and developers work on linux
Um, ok... I have nothing against Linux, but I don't think most professionals use it. I'm sure there's a wide spread of OSes pros use, even Amiga and Be still.
in my country it is. OS here is not popular at all!
I did not know that. I stand corrected.
A good client metric, though.
True, but
1) Clients vastly outnumber servers.
2) People don't actually use servers to do "stuff", so who cares what OS they have on them.
3) Linux has actually been losing ground recently.
I'm removing Linux today to install Vista. Thanks for showing me the light.
EDIT: Seems that something is broken in quoting when editing posts...
Last edited by markjensen on 09 Jan 2008 - 13:52
I know that is impossible, but it will happen.
Shows you how stupid students are....
some form of apple product doesnt mean computer OS.....hell i have an apple sticker on one of my old PC's does that count
So, an impossible thing is certian to happen?
Make up your mind!
Last edited by Slimy on 09 Jan 2008 - 02:33
Yes, in time Apple's OS may sell almost as well as the one from Microsoft everyone supposedly hates...
See? Anyone can make a dumb comment...
Yes, in time Apple's OS may sell almost as well as the one from Microsoft everyone supposedly hates...
See? Anyone can make a dumb comment...
Well sure, anyone can make a dumb statement but at least make one that makes grammatical sense before you post so you haven't put your own foot in your mouth.
Yes, in time Apple's OS may sell almost as well as the one from Microsoft everyone supposedly hates...
See? Anyone can make a dumb comment...
Well sure, anyone can make a dumb statement but at least make one that makes grammatical sense before you post so you haven't put your own foot in your mouth.
Perhaps you could explain that? My feet are well away from my mouth grammatically as far as I can see. If you want to argue grammar, however, it should be "double-digit" and "Now's".
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 09 Jan 2008 - 03:40
People who forget to properly use their lovely OS's built-in spell-check = EPIC PHAIL.
(just kidding.
Last edited by rm20010 on 09 Jan 2008 - 05:39
Yes, in time Apple's OS may sell almost as well as the one from Microsoft everyone supposedly hates...
See? Anyone can make a dumb comment...
Well sure, anyone can make a dumb statement but at least make one that makes grammatical sense before you post so you haven't put your own foot in your mouth.
i dont get it???
Yes, in time Apple's OS may sell almost as well as the one from Microsoft everyone supposedly hates...
See? Anyone can make a dumb comment...
Well sure, anyone can make a dumb statement but at least make one that makes grammatical sense before you post so you haven't put your own foot in your mouth.
i dont get it???
Neither did I, but I suspect we'll never know. "internetworld7" generally only runs pro-Apple drive-bys and doesn't come back.
But I agree with what you said. It's "time to go, Apple". Bye, don't come back
iTuesday!!!
Mr.Ed
There's a few conclusions I can draw from this. One is that Bill Gates took the typical Microsoft approach and declared the number of units shipped as the number of units sold or in use. Another is that quite a few of those Vista users downgraded back to XP shortly after the "wow" started. Another is that some Windows users don't feel safe going online, or don't even have internet access. Or a combination of the above.
Still, if the numbers are true then Macs really are gaining market share, and Vista's a bigger flop than Microsoft wants to admit.
There's a few conclusions I can draw from this. One is that Bill Gates took the typical Microsoft approach and declared the number of units shipped as the number of units sold or in use. Another is that quite a few of those Vista users downgraded back to XP shortly after the "wow" started. Another is that some Windows users don't feel safe going online, or don't even have internet access. Or a combination of the above.
Still, if the numbers are true then Macs really are gaining market share, and Vista's a bigger flop than Microsoft wants to admit.
Vista has gone from .16% to 10.48% and Mac OS (combined) 5.67% to 7.3%. Going up 10.32 isn't a flop compared to going up 1.63, is it? (You did notice that while the Mac Intel numbers rose, the legacy numbers fell?) And that's only comparing to Vista, not all the flavors of Windows. I'm not saying their numbers are accurate, but you're reading something larger in them than there is.
Last edited by GreyWolfSC on 09 Jan 2008 - 05:55
Vista has gone from .16% to 10.48% and Mac OS (combined) 5.67% to 7.3%. Going up 10.32% isn't a flop compared to going up 1.63, is it? (You did notice that while the Mac Intel numbers rose, the legacy numbers fell?) And that's only comparing to Vista, not all the flavors of Windows. I'm not saying their numbers are accurate, but you're reading something larger in them than there is.
Considering there were over 250 million PCs sold last year and Vista only shipped on 100 million of them, that's a bit of a shock. Apparently there's a lot of people who didn't feel the 'wow'.
When you take into account that Apple's unit shipments continue to rise about 30% YoY while the rest of the PC makers shipments only rise about 5-10% YoY, Apple's doing a lot better than the rest of the industry. Not to mention some of those copies of XP and Vista are undoubtedly running on Apple hardware. (maybe 1% or so, but still)
The worlds second most popular OS is Windows Vista. This is after a year of it being released. So much for a flop hey.
Oh, and it's worth noting that Mac OS X has gone up by 1.63% - that's a big improvement, but still not huge. Not when you take into account that they have released a new version of the OS, the Touch and the iPhone.... When MS get over 10% on it's new OS with just a software launch and Apple can only gain 1.63% when they launch devices too it makes you wonder what the fanboi's are on about.
However it has to be said, that neither MS or Apple can be screaming about success at the moment. I would have thought Vista would be around the 20% - 25% mark by now, however it has only been a year I guess. Be interesting to see what the stats are this time in 2009.
MS still has over 90% of the destkop market then. Anyone know what these stats were in the 2006 report? Has MS's overall net dominance gone down at all?
Last edited by stevehoot on 09 Jan 2008 - 09:33
The worlds second most popular OS is Windows Vista. This is after a year of it being released. So much for a flop hey.
Oh, and it's worth noting that Mac OS X has gone up by 1.63% - that's a big improvement, but still not huge. Not when you take into account that they have released a new version of the OS, the Touch and the iPhone.... When MS get over 10% on it's new OS with just a software launch and Apple can only gain 1.63% when they launch devices too it makes you wonder what the fanboi's are on about.
However it has to be said, that neither MS or Apple can be screaming about success at the moment. I would have thought Vista would be around the 20% - 25% mark by now, however it has only been a year I guess. Be interesting to see what the stats are this time in 2009.
MS still has over 90% of the destkop market then. Anyone know what these stats were in the 2006 report? Has MS's overall net dominance gone down at all?
They did include both versions of OSX. There's a "Mac OS" (PPC) and "MacIntel" (Intel, of course). In the figures I quoted ^up there^ I added the two OSXs together.
Also how come its "Mac OS", and not cmpared to "Windows OS", instead they break it down into every single version of Windows.
Also how come its "Mac OS", and not cmpared to "Windows OS", instead they break it down into every single version of Windows.
But, since that is too much for you, let me cut-and-paste for you.
Windows XP 76.91%
Windows Vista 10.48%
MacIntel 4.02%
Mac OS 3.28%
Windows 2000 2.66%
Windows 98 0.70%
Linux 0.63%
Windows NT 0.57%
Windows ME 0.40%
iPhone 0.12%
Windows CE 0.06%
Series60 0.02%
PSP 0.02%
Windows 95 0.02%
Pike 0.02%
Hiptop 0.02%
iPod 0.02%
Nintendo Wii 0.01%
Web TV 0.01%
Unknown 0.01%
PLAYSTATION 3 0.01%
SunOS 0.01%
Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3 0.00%
Warp 4.5 0.00%
Talk about "Wow" factor. The Windows that everyone on Neowin seems to hate (Millennium) is still beating iPhone by over 300%.
The comparison of a consumer PC OS (WinME) to a mobile phone OS (iPhone) is absurd beyond words. Might as well compare it to the Wii or Playstation while you are at it.
Last edited by hewitt s. on 09 Jan 2008 - 15:57
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