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Windows is still the dominant desktop OS, but the dominance varies by region and it has gradually lost market share to other desktop operating systems (not just to mobile) with the slide very noticeable in the US, where macOS usage has more than quadrupled from Jan. 2009 to Dec. 2020 to 30.62% (i.e. in Christmas month; and 34.72% in April 2020 ...
Version market share As a percentage of desktop and laptop systems using Microsoft Windows, [1] according to StatCounter data as of November 2024 [2]: Desktop OS
Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer (PC) market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984, while Microsoft has in 2020 lost its dominance of the consumer operating system market, with Windows down to 30%, lower than Apple's 31% mobile-only share (65% for desktop operating ...
As of September 2024, Android is the most popular operating system with a 46% market share, followed by Microsoft Windows at 26%, iOS and iPadOS at 18%, macOS at 5%, and Linux at 1%. Android, iOS, and iPadOS are mobile operating systems, while Windows, macOS, and Linux are desktop operating systems. [132]
The article How Android Won the Operating System Market Share Battle originally appeared on Fool.com. Daniel Kline has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Apple and Google.
The global market leader has been Lenovo in every year since 2013, followed by HP and Dell. Previously, Compaq was the global market leader in the late 1990s until the year 2000, while HP and Dell shared market leadership in the 2000s. For data about PC vendors' market shares in laptop computers specifically, see Laptop#Historic market share.
Windows 10 is the most-used traditional PC operating system, with a 46% share of users. [28] ... Its market share peaked at 82.5% in December 2021, ...
The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, and more general, comparison of operating systems that includes servers, mainframes and supercomputers. Because of the large number and variety of available Linux distributions , they are all grouped under a single entry; see comparison of Linux distributions for a detailed ...