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And?? Win10 is in TP and not prime time yet.
Source:
Operating SystemSort AscendingSort DescendingAdd Filter... Total Market ShareSort AscendingSort Descending Windows 7 55.99% Windows XP 19.15% Windows 8.1 10.49% Windows 8 3.55% Mac OS X 10.10 3.55% Windows Vista 2.11% Mac OS X 10.9 1.65% Linux 1.53% Mac OS X 10.6 0.61% Mac OS X 10.7 0.47% Mac OS X 10.8 0.46% Mac OS X 10.5 0.12% Windows NT 0.11% Windows 10 0.08% Windows 2000 0.04% Mac OS X 10.4 0.03% Win64 0.02% Windows 3.1 0.01% Windows 98 0.01% Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.00% Windows ME 0.00% Windows 95 0.00%
What surprises me is look where 3.1 is, that it's even on the list Hail the mighty DOS!!! And Microsoft thinks that 10 will get rid of XP and 7?
from Wikipedia:
.Windows 3.1 found a niche market as an embedded operating system after becoming obsolete in the PC world. As of November 2008, both Virgin Atlantic and Qantas employed it for some of the onboard entertainment systems on long-distance jets. It also sees continued use as an embedded OS in retail cash tills.[25] It is also used as a secondary application in DOSBox to enable emulation of Win16 games on 64-bit Windows
The worst part of win-10 could be a closer following of what Microsoft did with outlook.com,
Advertisements in the free version.
Kind of scary an os would turn into that just for not going subscription,
But terms are always one sided favoring the software creator Click next to agree ....
As Always, the devil is in the details. NetMarketShare's methodology is not useful for counting actual market share because it does some really stupid things.
For instance, They only count a unique visitor on a per site basis once per day, but aggregate that data. So, if I visit two of their sites on the same day, I'm counted twice in their statistics. What's worse is that if I first visit that site in one browser or OS, and then come back to it 99 more times that day with a different browser and/or OS, only the first one is counted.
This is also a world market share, which even if it was accurate (which it's wildly not so), it's not particularly relevant for a lot of us. China still has a very large percentage of XP users, most of which are using the pirated version of XP. So this neither translates to any real market share for western businesses or even a real statistic that means anything.