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tuaw.com - 1/7/2009

Apple market share tops 10%, Windows share lowest since tracking began

— tuaw.com — Microsoft's share of the operating system market is dropping, while Apple computers and handhelds have topped 10... percent for the first time, according to a new report on Internet-connected computers. NetApplications, the company that tracks browser ... (more) Apple market share tops 10%, Windows share lowest since ...

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Apple market share tops 10%, Windows share lowest since tracking began
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Internet, Leopard Microsoft's share of the operating system market is dropping, while Apple computers and handhelds have topped 10 percent for the first time, according to a new report on Internet-connected computers. NetApplications, the company that tracks browser and operating system market share for a variety of sites across the Internet, released its data for December 2008. According to a Computerworld analysis, the number of Windows users decreased in December by 0.94 percent to 88.7 percent. The fall was the steepest in four years since Net Applications began collecting data, and was also ...

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Computerworld Blogs - Macintosh & Apple — I read with great interest Greg Keizer's article "Windows market share dives again as Mac nears 10%" because I've been waiting for Mac to garner just that kind of market share.  I was doing Pascal programming in college on a Mac back in 1984 and while the screen was monochromatic, it did have icons and a mouse. Remember, that was almost a decade before the boys up in Redmond introduced the Windows operating system. read more