Windows’ market share has dropped below 90 per cent for the first time since the mid 1990s when the juggernaut was Windows 95, according to two different analysts NetMarketShare and StatCounter.
NetMarketShare calculates that Windows’ market share dipped to 89.96 per cent this month. StatCounter is slightly more pessimistic, reporting an 89.22 per cent share for the same operating systems and time period.
Apple’s OS X remains far behind, but has topped 8 percent for the first time in memory. NetMarketShare places Apple’s laptop and desktop market share at 8.16 per cent; StatCounter says that OS X has an 8.34 share.
