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Apple starts 2009 with strong Net gains
MacBytes.com — net-apps-jan-pie-chart Apple ( AAPL ) consolidated its 2008 holiday Internet market-share gains with strong performances from the Mac, iPhone and iPod touch in January, according to preliminary data issued overnight Sunday by Net Applications . The Web metrics company had warned last month that residential usage during the holiday season might skew results in favor of Apple products like the Mac, which tend to get used more in the home than the office. But the Mac’s share grew another 3.12% in January to grab a record 9.93% of Internet traffic. The iPhone grew even faster, albeit from a smaller base, up 9.09% to 0.48%, also a new record. Net Apps iPod Jan fever chart The ...

Windows Vista 'New Coke' of operating systems?
Computerworld Blogs - Macintosh & Apple — Forrester research compared the enterprise adoption of Windows Vista to the disastrous introduction 'New Coke' back in July .  That's actually a pretty good analogy.  I even think Microsoft will be readily willing to admit it too - as soon as Windows 7 is ready to replace it in the 'Classic' sense.  Two reports came out this week which show that Microsoft continues to fall in operating systems and browsers. Over two years since Microsoft launched Windows Vista, fewer than 10 percent of PCs in the enterprise are running the successor to the company's eight-year-old Windows XP.  That's only up from 8.8 percent in July.  Still, a very Microsoft-friendly Forrester Research report uses ...