Windows 7 fails to halt Mac’s market share advances
The good news for Microsoft over the last week or so is that Windows 7 has seen its share of Web traffic rise by nearly three-quarters from just under 2 percent to around 3.5 percent. The bad news is that the company, at least by this same overall measure, is still losing market share to Apple and its category defining Mac OS X.
It’s been some time since Mac Blorge reported Web usage information and market share data from Net Applications — the Web metrics firm stopped reporting for more than a month because of problems with how they collect and calculate, and, frankly, only time will tell whether they’ve got their methods and checks n’ balances right now.
Thereupon, according to Net Applications operating system market share collected for September and October, Apple’s Mac OS X has continued to gain market share, even following the launch of Vista SP4 Windows 7. Whereas
Microsoft’s newest operating system is gaining market share rapidly, with half percent or better jumps occurring daily, the company is still losing market share overall to the Mac, which is just a beautiful thing.
On the browser front, it’s the same old story as Internet Explorer hemorrhages market share with Chrome, Firefox and Safari all benefiting from Microsoft’s continuing inability to ship a competent browser.
Death by browser
As noted above, it’s early days for Windows 7 and Net Applications has had issues in the past with consistency and accuracy. Still, the above data tracks well with Apple’s rising unit volume, revenue and profit figures for last quarter as well as Microsoft’s flagging fortunes as measured for the same data points.
I fully expect Steve Ballmer or some other Microsoft monkey boy pop up this week to trumpet the overwhelming success of Windows 7. Whatever they say is fine with me because consumers have already weighed in, heavily in favor of Apple…
What’s your take?
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November 2nd, 2009
OS X is for retards that can’t be trusted with their own computer. LOL
November 2nd, 2009
I would give your response a proper reply ncaissie but I don’t think its worth it – you’ve just shown everybody who reads it quite how one track minded and stupid you are I think.
What this survey shows is that people are seeing the benefits of Macs for home use. Businesses won’t adopt Mac OSX for a long while and justifiably so – its overkill for business use. But many home users can see the benefits unless they’re utterly stupid and think they know it all about computers, like ncaissie, an evident Dave Parrack follower. Even if many people don’t think Mac OSX is for them, many people can accept that it has its benefits and that not all people who use it are retards.
I don’t think it’ll ever break a much higher marketshare though, and let’s not forget also that many people are still upgrading their machines to Windows 7 if they bought a PC in the last few months, so I expect Windows 7’s share to spike quite quickly in the forseeable future. And don’t get too carried away – Mac OSX isn’t growing that quickly at all.
November 3rd, 2009
This year I bought a copy of Vista Ultimate. It stinks.
I tried W7 and it’s somewhat better, but as far as I’m concerned it’s just a big Vista service pack, and I’ll be darned if I’m going to pay the complete OS retail price again, just to FIX a dodgy OS.
I don’t consider myself a retard (I have used PCs since 1987, been a Unix Sysadmin in the past, and have always built my own Windows systems) but yesterday I ordered a Mac…
Mike
November 3rd, 2009
There is a large group of idiots who think they know something about computers and operating systems.
Truth be told OS X can be far more complicated then windows. You are focusing on a window manager, and as far as I am concerned Apple has by far the best window manager available.
Behind the shell Mac OS X has a large and vast BSD like operating system.
Windows only recently evolved their shell with .NET, but still the majority of the management if based on a GUI.