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The Windows PC is a declining platform It's difficult to be rising when you start at 95%. Nevertheless a great majority of users access the Internet via a com

The Windows PC is a declining platform It's difficult to be rising when you start at 95%. Nevertheless a great majority of users access the Internet via a computer running Windows and it will remain the case for a long while.

rbanffy 14y ago
> It's difficult to be rising when you start at 95%. When just about every PC is sold with Windows, one would expect its market share to, at least, remain constant.
- shin_lao 14y ago
  It is my understanding that the Mac gained significant market shares and that on mobile devices Windows isn't predominant.
- Offler 14y ago
  Not if other platforms grow faster than it i.e. Smartphones or Tablets.
nuje 14y ago
I would have assumed it's declining in terms of market share (driven down by tablets/Mac/Linux) but there's a surprisingly large absolute drop coming as well: "Researchers IDC and Gartner Inc. said PC shipments in the third quarter fell more than 8% from a year earlier, the steepest drop since at least 2001." ( http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444657804578048981461803220.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044465780457804... )
- kvb 14y ago
  A drop in sales doesn't imply a drop in usage, though. Perhaps PCs are merely lasting longer before needing to be replaced?