Is Linux a Threat to Windows? Not According to These Stats

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Market share data shows Windows is back to growth

   Windows is back at 90 percent share once again

 

They say Linux is the best alternative to Windows for a number of reasons, and it’s no secret that there are plenty of users who actually jumped ship and went the open-source way just because of that.

But last month's statistics show that Windows continues to be the dominant desktop operating system out there, and what’s more, Linux isn’t posing any threat just yet despite the number of users who are making the transition.

Specifically, Windows is once again above the 90 percent historical threshold that it has been holding for so long thanks to a pretty successfully month of August.

Net Applications claims Windows is currently at 90.52 percent, up from 89.79 percent the month before. Windows’ worst month was April this year, when it dropped to 88.77 percent, but the OS has been recovering ever since.

Linux and Mac OS X

Linux, on the other hand, is still super far behind with a share of just 2.11 percent. And what’s more, Linux is even dropping in terms of market share, as statistics show a decline from 2.33 percent it had in July.

But Linux is overall performing quite well, as it has now managed to maintain its share above 2 percent, so there’s definitely an increase brought by the number of users migrating from Windows.

Apple’s Mac OS X can be considered a bigger threat to Windows if we’re looking only at market share data, with the platform currently said to be at 7.37 percent. But just like in the case of Linux, Mac OS X is on the decline, as it dropped from 7.87 percent in July and from no less than 9.57 percent in April 2016, which coincidentally or not was Windows’ worst month.

Overall, while Linux is growing, it’s still not a deadly rival to Windows, and it’ll still take many more years until this at least can happen. But given the fact that Microsoft is not at all willing to give up on this fight, and Windows 10 is getting improved substantially with every release, it’s going to be a very difficult struggle for Linux to get closer to Windows.

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They said the same crap when Vista came  out  and   Linux  journalist say its not really relevant  for many years  

 

Here are tons  of stories  on how they give fake statistics  about Linux marketshare

http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/GNU/Linux_Market_Share

But really who would care  expect for someone who  feels threaten that Linux may put a hurting  on Windows or someone who is being paid  to promote Windows ?

 

Steve Ballmer, said once that actually  that  Linux was a bigger competitor than Apple..That  Macs are only popular in developed countries, so it is easy for US-based firms to obtain a narrow picture and for others in the west to actually believe it.

http://www.osnews.com/story/21035/Ballmer_Linux_Bigger_Competitor_than_Apple

He said Linux and piracy  was a bigger threat to Microsoft than Apple  because ether way you  get a O/S for free .Mac OSX computers  are not cheap  unless someone has money too blow no one is going to buy a Apple PC.  And people wonder why Windows 10 is full of ads  its one way  to make money regradless if you pirate it or not  .That was  a ingenues plan by Microsoft  .  If you use apps from the store they gets paid from ads .

 

Apple is not really a threat  to Microsoft  at all in 2016 they own a company  that makes software for IOS  .So in reality they profit from Apple. I only know one person who owns a Mac in real life . But every time i watch a movie or something  most of the time they will be using apple  its like apple donates  there PCs to Hollywood to promote there products  witch is not  uncommon  .Even Microsoft  gave pro windows journalist gifts like this before.

 

I been on the computer since 2001 all the time  and never even thought about buying a apple  and i bought windows pcs many times  even payed over $1200 for them before .I remember Apple II being in schools  when i was a kid  and played games at school on commodore 64  but the 1st time i got on the internet  was on a Windows PC  in the 90s. 

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How come they never show the server OS market share? 

[D1v1n3D]

well if they showed the server market that would hurt the windows market lol considering we all get our network and net info threw a LINUX server lol the average person would be like why are the almost all mainframes and infrastructures running Linux and not our desktop well folks it's because most of you are idiots(government and media's point of view) and don't want or like change but Linux is more stable and secure well for the most part lol.