sujith Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 Windows continues to be the number one operating system for the traditional desktop computer and laptops, but statistics show that things could change in the coming years if the same trend is maintained.Microsoft’s well-known operating system has dropped below the 90 percent market share for the first time since the mid-‘90s when the company officially rolled out Windows 95 and started taking over the desktop world.Unfortunately, the world is changing and Windows is seeing increased competition on the desktop as well, a market which it has clearly dominated for more than 20 years.SeekingAlpha figures published today and provided by two independent market researchers for the month of March 2014 confirm that Windows has less than 90 percent of the desktop world, while Mac OS X has finally managed to reach a record 8 percent share.NetMarketShare claims that Windows is now powering 89.96 percent of the desktops worldwide, while StatCounter puts Microsoft’s operating system at 89.22 percent.If you’re asking Windows XP users, these figures are not at all surprising, especially because Microsoft has failed to come up with a new operating system that would convince users to upgrade. The latest versions of Windows brought to the market, namely Windows 8 and 8.1, have caused quite a controversy among users, mostly due to Redmond’s decision to remove some traditional features (such as the Start button) and focus on an approach that’s more appropriate for touch-capable devices.As a result, the PC market continued its decline and both Windows 8 and 8.1 failed to excite, with consumers preferring to stick to their existing Windows versions or, in some cases, to move to other platforms, such as Linux and Mac OS X.We’ve also heard from Windows XP users that some prefer to wait for Windows 9 before moving to modern Windows, pointing to the lack of excitement in Windows 8 and 8.1 as the main reason.The problem for Microsoft however is the fact that users are going to non-Microsoft platforms, especially because competition in the desktop world is getting fiercer. This means that Redmond clearly needs to come up with some fresh ideas and bring back users on Windows, especially on the traditional desktop, which clearly remains the company’s priority despite its increased focus on tablets.The new CEO Satya Nadella clearly has a difficult mission, but let’s just hope that together with Bill Gates, he will manage to bring back Windows in everyone’s lives.Source-http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Desktop-Share-Drops-Below-90-for-the-First-Time-Since-the-90s-432318.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallhagrid Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 No real loss for the gates gang because intel-based 'apple' is just another mikr0$0ft profit center made to look like 'competition'.The article quoted above has left out some very important info.(Out of sight=> out of mind...right ?)There are some really good Linux-based OSes that are great for non-gamers and when THOSE start gobbling up market share away from m$ that will get their attention...if it ever happens...Funny to me is that so many folks who've never spent even 5 minutes using any Linux distro still condemn it instantly and think that m$/apple are 'all there is'.Wrong answer.Data loss ?? BSODs ?? Invasive 'upgrades' ?? Huge security issues ??These all BELONG to the more popular and well-known OSes.Long runtimes, stability, easy updating and reliability are all just normal, ordinary properties of Linux OSes.Better still - anything based upon Ubuntu 12.04 has 5 years of updates included and with a DE like LXDE it becomes very windows-like and will run on older h/w just fine.If folks spent less energy arguing about m$/apple and opened their minds a little they would see that they're missing a whole world of great stuff and that they can STILL use windows within a Linux OS very easily - it just runs better and causes less trouble is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0veR Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I blame Windows 8 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDistortions Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Yeah, i think W8 is causing the Windows user share to go down. I myself am going to Linux. I hope these trends continue so MS can dig their heads out of the sand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeowinMOD™ Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 In my honest opinion Microsoft should have release an SP2 update for Windows 7 instead of whole Windows 8 and 8.1 updates. That would keep Windows users happy for a long time, but Microsoft didn't listen to customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverjia Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 MS deserve some lessons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjall Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 it makes sense especially also that laptops are been released with other OS now besides Apple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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