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Mac OS Grows Market Share To 9.63% And Safari Gains Ground As Well In December
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NetApplications HitsLink have posted Operating System Market Share stats for December, 2008, showing the Mac OS's market share gained nealry a full point during the month, its high-water mark for the 21st Century. Windows dropped below 90% in November, '08 and has stayed there, dropping nearly another point over the month while Linux's share remained steady below one percent and the iPhone version of OS X was up slightly.
Here's the Operating System Total Market Share rundown of the significant players for December (November figures in parentheses):
Windows 88.68% (89.62%)
Mac 9.63% (8.87%)
Linux 0.85% (0.83%)
iPhone 0.44% (0.37%)
Comparing longer term, at 88.68% Windows is down more than five percentage points since May 2006 (95.09%), while the Mac OS at 9.63% has more than doubled its share over the same interval from 4.43% in May '06 and the PowerPC version of MAc OS was actually up in December, while Linux has also more then doubled its May '06 numbers from 0.40% to 0.85%..
In terms of versions:
Windows:
Windows XP 65.22% (66.31%)
Windows Vista 21.12% (20.45%)
Windows 2000 1.47% (1.56%)
Windows NT 0.34% (0.77%)
Windows 98 0.27% (0.29%)
Windows ME 0.16% (0.17%)
Windows CE 0.05% (0.05%)
Macintosh:
MacIntel 7.19% (6.51%)
Mac OS (Classic) 2.44% (2.35%)
iPhone 0.44% (0.37%)
iPod 0.08% (0.05%)
Linux 0.85% (0.83%)
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
Browser Share
Moving on to browsers, the Firefox browser exceeded 20% share for November, and dained more ground in December, while Safari gained more than half a point of share on the month, while Internet Explorer faded more. Google's newcomer (and so far Windows-only) Chrome now has more then 1 percent of the browser market.
Browser Total Market Share:
Microsoft Internet Explorer - 68.15% (69.77%)
Firefox - 21.34% (20.78%)
Safari 7.93% (7.13%)
Chrome - 1.04% (0.83%)
Opera - 0.71% (0.71%)
Netscape - 0.57% (0.53%)
Mozilla - 0.08% (0.08%)
Opera Mini - 0.07% (0.06%)
You can check it out at:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0
Charles W. Moore
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Article URL:
http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/22376
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