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Windows market share drops to 15-year low
TG Daily - All News — Chicago (IL) – Earlier today, we reported that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has dropped below 70% for the first time nearly nine years. Even worse, market research firm Net Applications now estimates Microsoft’s Windows market share at less than 90%, which is still an impressive number, but a lower level than most PC users may remember. We had to go back to Windows 3.11 to find similar market share data. Any product that owns close to 90% of a market that is as gigantic as the global PC market would be considered a huge success. In the case of Microsoft, that is, of course, different. Windows has suffered from a continued market share decline since the 2003/2004 time frame and November 2008 was the first month in a very long time that ...

Windows market share drops to 15-year low
TG Daily - Trendwatch News — Note that these statistics are most likely for consumer end users. Net Applications is only looking at website visitors. Most professional end users have restrictions on internet connections as to what sites are blocked which would make determining professional users' operating systems difficult if not impossible. Servers are probably not going to be browsing sites so that's also not taken into account in this poll. The figures for Windows are probably much lower given the entire picture of HPC, hosting and ISP, professional and academic users, plus anything else besides consumer end users. Either way the point is clear that Windows is loosing ground to the competition.