Mac makes minor market movement
Windows gets pie nibbled
APPLE'S SLICE OF THE consumer operating system market appears to be slowly on the up, according to the latest figures out from Net Applications.
In June, OSX accounted for 8 per cent (OK, 7.94, but who's counting?) of internet traffic to the clutch of websites the firm monitors, up from 6.03 per cent this time last year.
However, the gains aren't all at Microsoft's expense: Windows Vista and Linux also saw small market share gains of a point or so to end the month at 16.14 per cent and 0.88 per cent of the market.
Having said "Hasta la Vista" to Windows XP last month, the market share for that OS was down a point as Vista upgrades nibbled at it, dropping it from 72.12 per cent to 71.2 per cent. Hardly, however, a tragic death for the veteran, which will have a long way to go before it is replaced as the most popular OS.
According to historic figures, Vista appears to be replacing XP, for the most part, whilst Apple is making its gains from the Windows platform as a whole. Get the full figures over by y'ere. µ
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3%
While some web stats show Mac OS at 8%, SEC filings suggest 3% of existing PCs are running MacOS. This can be deduced from the http://SEC.gov filings which show units shipped by Apple as 2.289 million in the quarter ending 2008-03-29. see http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000119312508097759/d10q.htmQuarterly sales of all PCs are 69.5 million.
see http://www.itfacts.biz/global-pc-shipments-grew-146-to-695-mln-units-in-q1-2008/10479
This shows that the web stats are biased towards hot Mac markets: USA/Europe and under-report the global picture. This affects the miserably low numbers for GNU/Linux as well. If Mac OS is 3% and M$ is 90%, 7% of PCs could be running GNU/Linux on the web.