- #Computer os market share for mac os#
- #Computer os market share update#
- #Computer os market share android#
The most recent data from various sources published during the last six months is summarized in the table below. For a discussion on the shortcomings see Usage share of web browsers. This is an inexact science for a variety of reasons. The following information on web clients is obtained from the User agent information supplied to web servers by web browsers. In October 2010 Tim Cook of Apple claimed that 1 in 5 of desktop/laptop computers sold in the United States is a Mac. A Forrester Research study of desktop operating systems used in North American and European companies in 2010 found Windows 7 on 10% of all commercial desktops, Windows XP on 75% and Vista on 7%. Microsoft's CFO Peter Klein stated in July 2010 that Windows 7 now runs on more than 15% of all PCs worldwide. The correlation between desktop share and web client share is also being challenged by mobile web access, which rose through 1% in 2009 and 4% in 2010. Web client usage share (see below) is often used as a proxy for desktop share, but many desktops are not used for web access so do not get counted in these figures. In a speech to investors in February 2009, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft presented a slide based on Microsoft's research while it showed no figures, the pie chart depicted Linux and Apple as each having roughly 5–6% of home and business PCs.
#Computer os market share android#
Gartner does not expect Google Chrome OS, Google Android or HP's webOS to get 'any significant market share' on PCs in the next few years, and expects Linux operating systems to remain at less than 2 percent share over the next several years." Īpple reports selling 4 million Macs in Q2 2011, the third quarter in Apple's fiscal year.
#Computer os market share for mac os#
"A Gartner forecast calls for Mac OS to ship on 4.5 percent of new PCs worldwide in 2011 and 5.2 percent in 2015. Total units in Q2 2011 from all vendors, ~85 million. Gartner's numbers include netbooks, but not media tablets such as the iPad. Apple's worldwide market share is not listed, because not in top 5 inferred to be 5% or below. In August 2011, Gartner estimated Apple's PC market share in US as 10.7% for Q2 2011. Estimates for 2011 These are current-year sales estimates, not accumulative usage share for all PCs that are in use.
#Computer os market share update#
research firm IDC estimated that 80% of software sold in China last year was pirated." (Windows was mentioned, but no specific estimate for Windows was given.) As another example, in 2007, the automated push of IE7 update onto legal copies of Windows, contrasted with web browser share statistics, led one author to "estimate that 25%–35% of all Windows XP machines are illegal". Conversely, sales underestimate usage, by not counting pirated copies. Most computers are sold with a pre-installed OS some users replace that OS with a different one due to personal preference. Gartner publishes estimates, but the way the estimates are calculated is not openly published. There is little openly published information on the usage share of desktop and laptop computers.