6867 NetApplications HitsLink have posted Operating System Market Share stats for January, 2009, showing the Mac OS more market share ground on Windows during the month, reaching another high-water mark for the 21st Century. Windows dropped below 90% in November, '08 and has stayed there, dropping roughly another half-point over the month while Linux's share dropped very slightly back to where it was in November, '08, and remains below one percent while the iPhone version of OS X was up slightly.

Here's the Operating System Total Market Share rundown of the significant players for January (December '08 figures in parentheses):

Windows 88.26% (88.68%)
Mac 9.93% (9.63%)
Linux 0.83% (0.85%)
iPhone 0.48% (0.44%)

Comparing longer term, at 88.26% Windows is down more than five percentage points since May 2006 (95.09%), while the Mac OS at 9.93% has more than doubled its share over the same interval from 4.43% in May '06, while Linux has also more then doubled its May '06 numbers from 0.40% to 0.85%..

In terms of versions:

Windows:
Windows XP 63.76% (65.22%)
Windows Vista 22.48% (21.12%)
Windows 2000 1.37% (1.47%)
Windows NT 0.09% (0.34%)
Windows 98 0.23% (0.27%)
Windows ME 0.14% (0.16%)
Windows CE 0.05% (0.05%)

Macintosh (Hitslink has chanced their MAc version categorizations, so I'm showing last months fugures in the old categories separately)

January 2009
Mac OS X 10.5 5.28%
Mac OS X 10.4 2.74%
Mac OS X (no version reported) 1.00%
iPhone 0.48%
MacIntel 0.47%
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.29%
Mac OS 0.14%

December 2008
MacIntel 7.19%
Mac OS (Classic) 2.44%
iPhone 0.44%
iPod 0.08%

Linux 0.83% (0.85%)

To read more, click here:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8
and
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10

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Browser Share

Moving on to browsers, the Firefox browser exceeded 20% share in November '08, gained more ground in December, and squeaked out a tiny gian again in January, while Safari gained more than half a point of share in December and another third of a point or so in January, while Internet Explorer continues to fade, down .06 percent from December and down 7.92 percent from a year ago. Google's newcomer (and so far Windows-only) Chrome has nailed down more than 1 percent of the browser market.

Browser Total Market Share:

Microsoft Internet Explorer - 67.55% (68.15%)

Firefox - 21.53% (21.34%)

Safari 8.29% (7.93%)

Chrome - 1.12% (1.04%)

Opera - 0.70% (0.71%)

Netscape - 0.57% (0.57%)

Mozilla - 0.07% (0.08%)

Opera Mini - 0.06% (0.07%)

You can check it out at:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0


Charles W. Moore

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