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Regarding sales as opposed to usage: Windows once held an overwhelming lead in 2008 with about 70 percent of the OS market, Forrester found in estimating overa

by noibl 14y ago

Regarding sales as opposed to usage: Windows once held an overwhelming lead in 2008 with about 70 percent of the OS market, Forrester found in estimating overall personal computing device sales by OS. By 2012, that market share had shrunk to about 30 percent. -- http://rcpmag.com/articles/2012/10/22/microsoft-os-market-slide.aspx http://rcpmag.com/articles/2012/10/22/microsoft-os-market-sl... According to a Goldman Sachs report acquired by The Seattle Times, Windows lost massive share in the global compute market-- from being the OS of choice in 97% of all computing devices in 2000 to just 20% in 2012. -- http://www.consumerit.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1429:goldman-sachs-windows-compute-market-share-down-&catid=20&Itemid=100017 http://www.consumerit.eu/index.php?option=com_content&vi...

FireBeyond 14y ago
That's hilarious - "all computing devices" includes tablets, and even some smartphones. No wonder desktop Windows is "declining" in popularity against that whole market.
- noibl 14y ago
  It's not desktop Windows. It's Windows. See my posts re declining PC sales for why this would matter (hint: people are getting work done on devices). Then we can fall back to the argument that consumer PCs aren't really important anyway.
- rayiner 14y ago
  People are using tablets for what they used to use PC's for in the past. My mom can do everything on her iPad: e-mail, surf the net, take and look at baby photos of my daughter. In 2000 she had a Windows PC, but she's unlikely to ever buy one again. To the extent that it's not Windows running on those tablets, that represents a real loss in market share for Windows.