the day is coming Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share

[jonathan]

 Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share                               |
|   from the easing-the-stranglehold dept.                           |
|   posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 02, @14:09 (Windows)       |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/02/1857253         |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+

[0]ozmanjusri writes "Online market share of the dominant Windows
operating system has taken its biggest monthly fall in years to [1]drop
below 90%, according to Net Applications Inc. Computerworld reports that
Microsoft's flagship product has been steadily losing ground to Mac OS X
and Linux, and is at its lowest ebb in the market since 1995. 'Mac OS
X... [ended] the month at 8.9%. November was the third month running that
Apple's operating system remained above 8%.' The stats show that while
some customers are 'upgrading' from XP to Vista, many are jumping ship to
Apple, while Linux is also steadily gaining ground. A Net Applications
executive suggests the slide may be caused by many of the same factors
that caused the fall in Internet Explorer use. 'The more home users who
are online, using Macs and Firefox and Safari, the more those shares go
up,' he said. November has more weekend days, as well Thanksgiving in the
US, a result that emphasizes the importance of corporate sales to
Microsoft."

Discuss this story at:
    http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/12/02/1857253