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Windows market share dives below 90% for first time
December 1, 2008 (Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. 's Windows OS last month took its biggest market share dive in the past two years, erasing gains made in two of the past three months and sending the operating system's share under 90% for the first time, an Internet measurement company reported ...
Mac Internet share hits record 8.82%; Windows drops below 90%
Mac Internet share hits record 8.82%; Windows drops below 90%
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com — Apple’s ( AAPL ) slice of the Internet pie grew measurably in November as both the Mac and the iPhone hit record numbers in a Net Applications Web survey issued overnight Monday. At the same time, Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) Web presence ... (more) Mac Internet share hits record 8.82%; Windows drops ...
Over 100 fixes coming in Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update
appleinsider.com — Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update is on course to deliver dozens of new bug fixes to users of the company's Leopard operating system, with recently leaked developer notes also offering a status update on software's server counterpart and Mac OS X 10.6 ... (more) Over 100 fixes coming in Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update
Microsoft Windows market share slashed by Apple News
Microsoft Windows market share slashed by Apple News
pcadvisor.co.uk — Microsoft's share of the operating system market dipped below 90 percent for the first time during November with Windows accounting for 89.6 percent of computers accessing the web, according to Net Applications. The research firm, which monitors ... (more) Microsoft Windows market share slashed by Apple News
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Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share--Firefox Above 20% [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — NetApplications is out with a couple of new metrics of market share for operating systems and browsers, and the news is good for open source. Topping their findings, Microsoft Windows'market share has dropped below 90 percent for the first time in its measurements. The share erosion is largely attributed to increased interest in the Mac platform, but Linux is cited as on the rise as well. In addition, for the first time since it launched its metrics, NetApplications' data shows Firefox's market share topping 20 percent. On the browser front, NetApplications finds Firefox to have achieved 20.78% market share for the month of November, and the complete ...

Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share--Firefox Above 20%
OStatic blogs — NetApplications is out with a couple of new metrics of market share for operating systems and browsers, and the news is good for open source. Topping their findings, Microsoft Windows'market share has dropped below 90 percent for the first time in its measurements. The share erosion is largely attributed to increased interest in the Mac platform, but Linux is cited as on the rise as well. In addition, for the first time since it launched its metrics, NetApplications' data shows Firefox's market share topping 20 percent. On the browser front, NetApplications finds Firefox to have achieved 20.78% market share for the month of November, and the complete ...

Windows market share reaches new low - 89.6%
Download Squad — Filed under: News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux If you gauged the market share of various operating systems by counting the number of Macs vs PCs you see in the typical urban coffee shop, you'd probably believe that Apple and Microsoft were duking it out like Republicans and Democrats in a close US presidential ...

XP lives... for a price
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Facebook's 200 million users show it has a long way to go
Between the Lines — April 9th, 2009 Facebook's 200 million users show it has a long way to go Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 2:30 am Categories: Communications , E-commerce , Entertainment , Facebook , General , Microblogging , Social networking , Web Technology Tags: Facebook , Internet , Andrew Nusca [image] Two hundred million. Kind of an amazing number, isn’t it? That’s the number of users Facebook reached yesterday, and the company’s proud of it, as evidenced by CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s beaming missive, “200 million strong.” “It took 20,000 years for the world population to get to 200 million ...

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