The Devil's boots don't creak - Scottish proverb
|
|
|
Windows slide continues
WINDOWS is starting to disappear from the world's technology thanks to Microsoft dropping the ball on its Windows Mobile OS.
According to Net Applications figures, Windows Mobile market share dropped by about a third of a point while Google's Android and Apple's Iphone OS took up the slack.
Mobile operating systems are starting to gain ground and now power 1.3 per cent of all the hardware that surfs the Internet. Normally this would not be a problem for Volish superiority but 2009 was the year that its Windows Mobile operating system started to tank.
It is not all bad news for the Vole however, as it still controls 92.2 per cent of personal computers. Use of other operating systems on PCs such as the Mac OS X and Linux was mostly flat.
The rate of loss in one month, though dramatic, suggests that Microsoft will retain control of the operating system market at least until 2035.
The figures show that Windows XP and Windows Vista lost share in December while Windows 7 gained ground. Windows XP slid 1.3 percentage points in December, its second-largest one-month decline ever. Vista, meanwhile, lost 0.7 of a percentage point, a single-month record, to end at 17.9 per cent.
However Windows 7 was unable to make up for the decline in the older operating systems which makes you wonder what the difference is actually using. The figures seem to indicate that XP users are upgrading slowly to Windows 7 while Vista users are hanging on for a bit longer.
Windows 7 market share has increased by 1.7 percentage points to end December with 5.7 per cent. At that rate Windows 7 will be on seven per cent of PCs in about a month, beating Vista to that number by six months. µ
Share this:
Share
your stats are based on current numbers, if this giant does not wake up soon, and get rid of the CEO, Microsoft is becoming sooooo, irrelevant.
I thought that The Inquirer's New Years Resolution was going to be firing this two-bit worthless hack!!!
Fire the Ferret! Fire the Ferret!
I wouldn't be surprised if that "slide" were within the margin of error for those statistics. Next you're going to report a "slide" in Windows desktop uptake with equally worthless statistics.
But do keep in mind microsoft is big enough to take a nap, then wake up and take the whole place over with a few stolen ideas of its own.
Right now i think microsoft is in snort mode and are about to wake up.
Its a bit of a trend with them that everyone should be well aware of by now.
Nowadays, the consumer is free to choose their mobile OS platform from a number of vendors.
However, WinMo does seem to have a number of drawbacks:
- It costs the handset maker money (which can either be reflected in the price of the handset to the consumer, or it reduced profits and reduced incentive to sell a WinMo set as opposed to a free OS like Android).
- It is not as secure as Android or other Linux OS's (WinMo can get Trojans, etc.).
- It's design is not as flashy or intuitive as Android or OSX mobile.
When you factor all of these considerations into the equation, it would seem that the "slide" that Nick is talking about is only the beginning.
http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/02/26/windows-mobile-trojan-sends-unauthorized-information-and-leaves-device-vulnerable/
Another take on this:
http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/market-insight-top.pag?docid=186851248
When you consider the impact of ARM-based, Linux tablet PC's, this could be a big slide indeed.
On the doom and gloom until you see what is coming down the pike. 1.3 isn't anything to be upset over.
btw I got a question. What can android and palm and the iphone do that winmo can't exactly? Everything they have i have on mine. Am i missing some grand app that can only be run on those oses?
I bought my wife the palm pre and while its a nice phone and all it isn't overwhelming gotta have kinda thing. Same goes with the droid I looked at it, kinda cool. Not spectacular looks like a variation of my touch pro honestly. Then the iphone... it sounds better than mine does playing music that is until i connect mine to the truck. Then, big deal.
Then there is this talk about all these apps. I noticed that everytime an app comes out it tends to come out across all of them for if one has it all of them have to have it so its just a matter of time before ill have it. See how that works? And big deal there is a 100,000 apps for a phone. what the hell am i gonna do with 100k worth of apps anyways?
Some of those apps are rather dumb in my book. like ordering a pizza thru an app. gee, look, i can call and get the same result, woohoo?...
It is a phone after all. You all did know that, right?
lol
What most people seem to forget is that Windows Mobile does a LOT more than simply run on mobile phones. It powers RFID readers, barcode scanners, ruggedized handheld computers used by emergency response personnel, retail applications, personal navigation devices, portable media players, fingerprint sensors, medical applications, etc. The platform is FAR from dead. It's just not doing well in the consumer mobile phone market.
windows mobile + xda-devlopers.com = the most capable and versatile mobile os on the planet!
1.3? really? Gloom and doom for 1.3 percent? Do you realize how fast a number like that can be reclaimed by Microshaft?
C'mon man.... the writing here is getting real weak and short-sighted.
I have had many windows phones that did suck, but I have had my Tilt with Win 6.1 and love it. Connect to work exchange server, check. Wifi and GPS with TomTom, check. Build apps that help maintain web and dB servers, check. These are many things I can't do with any other phone. Tried the iPhone, didn't like it. Droid, meh, nice entertainment phone.
Win mobile 6.1 has been the best out of all of them.
It's about time that these no good Windows Phone got kicked out of the world's technology. I'm sick of those weasels holding their stylus-pens like they own the joint.
Now I hear Windows Phone thinks the year is 2016. Not true. The Windows Phone comes from the year 1994, and those PDA things you used to see men holding.
Well, I'll tell them where they can go with their Windows thinigies. They can take their stylus pens and shove them up their... phones.