Windows worldwide market share is stuck at 15% and falling

[gertsy]

A good joke.
That article sums potatoes and cabbages... windows and android.
I repeat, a good joke.
If you talk about mobile os, well windows has not even 1%...

This is wikipedia, september 2013. With windows at about 90% (as always it's been) for desktop systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems

Hello everybody. Market share is simply based on quarterly sales, not saturation, distribution or overall popularity. Producers want you to believe market share is everything because they want an industry that simply runs on sales. Not quality or reliability or saturation.
Usage share and market share are 2 different beasties.

Scoff at market share.

@bloodline. Agree with everything up until the last point. They're all personal computing devices with different form factors and peripherals. I'm not going to try and do a 20 page presentation on a Tablet, Or a network diagram on a smart phone. The breadth of usage has increased to cover more devices. Additionally most people keep a desktop or Laptop for 4-5 years but a tablet / smart phone for 2-3 years. 1:2 ratio. Market share is a dangerous master because it skews the story in favour of faster turn around popularity. Exactly what the producers want.

PS: The truth is, saying "the truth is" at the start of a sentence doesn't convert a view to the truth.

[gertsy]

I know loads of people who use nothing but phones and tablets and have no desktop or laptop computer. They mostly fall into two categories: middle aged and older folks who don't care for computers and never did, and college students.

We're always going to have desktop and laptop computers, but they're evaporating from the consumer space at a rapid pace. Tablets and smartphones cover most users need in a less expensive and more convenient form factor.

Yes they are content consumers. As opposed to content creators. But I don't believe a college student these days can get by not using a personal computer.

@chickenDevil: TSR, your joking right. How is that the OSs fault?

[gertsy]

With a Bluetooth keyboard... I'd be surprised if most students would have a problem with a tablet for almost any task I can think of.

My two heaving lifting tasks where I still use a laptop are making music and programming... Both of which I now do on my iPad mini when I'm away from home... The laptop stays at home.



OS security policy.

All the students I know use Laptops. Mac or Windows. Perhaps we're a little behind the times over here.

OS security policy/Group Policy. No.
But as many contributors quite often attest Windows has no security, right?

I don't doubt that devices in the future will be very different than today. That's clear. But a Human user interface and display will remain large(big) as long as the content requires it.

[gertsy]

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Now what interests me more and why I come to this site is,  how is workbench doing

Agree, but there's always an OS knocking thread running here. Its moderator promoted��

Its either windows, Mac, or OS 4 bashing.

[gertsy]

A far large percentage of MS Windows users than OS X users are still using mice.  The Windows tile interface works best on a track pad.  

Since 8.1 it is a lot harder to get lost, the only thing that isn't obvious is the charms bar.  It looks as though they really tried to make the start screen act more like OS X launchpad.

I don't understand the mouse percentage claim, But IMO the Tile interface works best on touch not track pad.

On the last point; how has the 8.1 start screen been made to act like the OS X Launch pad ?

[gertsy]

On a touch screen device mimicking gesture on the touchpad is not intuitive. IMO. Better to get the pointer movements and dynamic acceleration down pat. I turn touchpad gestures off in those situations.
As to Market between your quote and CJs is the reason you can't quote market numbers without qualification.
Windows 8 holds over 12 times the market share of OS X on new PCs and Laptops.
Stats....hmmm.

[gertsy]

You qualified your own statistic. Apple, Google and Microsoft each have their own market in which they dominate.  Given the headstart Microsoft had this is shocking no matter how you quote the statistics.  How can you take a 90%+ lead in all computer devices in 2006 to a 30% share in 2013?
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How about if you quote the stats like this; Add Mobile phone and PDA units to the first percentage and it no longer looks drastic at all. Microsoft never played in that arena at all and only started last year, so I don't know what you mean by head start.  

The 2nd post in this thread says it.

[gertsy]

Must be at 14% by now, this aimless thread has been going for so long.