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Windows Rapidly Losing Market Share in the US, Market Share Drops to Historic Low of 57 Percent
Gizmochina ^ | Mar 7, 2023

Posted on 04/29/2023 9:38:07 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

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Looks like this article from Patently Apple got recycled:

https://www.patentlyapple.com/2023/03/apples-macos-has-been-steadily-gaining-ground-on-microsofts-windows-for-more-than-a-decade-and-the-stats-dont-really-tell.html

1 posted on 04/29/2023 9:38:07 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: dayglored; Swordmaker; ShadowAce

Win, Lin, Apple pings.


2 posted on 04/29/2023 9:39:47 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Linux is now gaining ground like it’s driving a Bughatti.

It’s the use of cellphones that are driving the choices.


3 posted on 04/29/2023 9:44:57 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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Also Windows is EXPENSIVE. (Not that Apple isn’t)


4 posted on 04/29/2023 9:46:27 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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Apple did it smart, by getting into the cellphone game early.
They are in position to allow people to move seamlessly from cellphone to Ipad to computer to be productive, all without missing a beat.


5 posted on 04/29/2023 9:48:02 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I find the hard to believe for desktop PCs. Big businesses will stick with Windows.


6 posted on 04/29/2023 9:48:53 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Legacy issues. Unless Chrome or Apple come out with a way to port over thirty year old software, Microsoft is almost a default choice.


7 posted on 04/29/2023 9:53:02 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica
I guess I’m just stuck in the past. But if Windows ever goes away I’ll miss those wonderful Windows error messages. They kept me entertained for hours.


8 posted on 04/29/2023 9:56:17 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Windows releasing versions that don’t support fairly new hardware is not helping them any.


9 posted on 04/29/2023 9:56:19 AM PDT by Revel
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Coincident with the rise of all that lbqrstuvwxy stuff?

Sorry, could not resist.


10 posted on 04/29/2023 10:06:49 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

MS did it to themselves. I go back to the late 1970’s with an Apple II and the early 1980’s with the IBM PC. I have used many different computers and OS’s. The issue with MS is they have become too cumbersome, too many updates which do nothing to improve the function, just move around the location of features. All the while Apple has made it very easy to just use a computer.


11 posted on 04/29/2023 10:07:06 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Jonty30

Microsoft also got in early, but botched it.


12 posted on 04/29/2023 10:12:17 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

This will be a year of Linux desktop!


13 posted on 04/29/2023 10:14:02 AM PDT by Krosan
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To: McGruff

This reminds of the bankruptcy line, gradually and then all at once.


14 posted on 04/29/2023 10:14:34 AM PDT by teevolt
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes. They tried to replicate a full window’s experience on a cellphone, instead of allowing a more simplified experience that could be ported.

They botched it badly, thanks to Ballmer.

Their follow up windows phone was nice. I had a nicer experience with the Windows than I have had with an Android, but it was too late by then.


15 posted on 04/29/2023 10:14:52 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Black widow spiders aren't the only species that eats their mate after finishing with them. )
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I have Ubuntu running on a Celeron class mini PC. I use it mostly to play with something new. I am very happy with it. When my main Windows computer goes, I will replace it with another mini PC running Ubuntu.


16 posted on 04/29/2023 10:33:05 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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and Apple puts their OS crappy computers you can’t fix yourself


17 posted on 04/29/2023 11:29:24 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ProgressingAmerica; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ...
Desktop Market Shares ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to ProgressingAmerica for the ping!

18 posted on 04/29/2023 11:40:30 AM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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To: Krosan
> This will be a year of Linux desktop!

LOL, do I hear an echo??

I've run Linux Desktops since 2001. Still waiting for the Big Break....

19 posted on 04/29/2023 11:41:46 AM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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It's funny (not) how these articles say "Computer" when they mean "Desktop computer" and they ignore "Server".

Linux totally owns the Server market -- Windows has a small share, and Apple is almost non-existent.

The Internet runs on Linux; everything else is almost neglitible. Period.

High-performance computers, supercomputers, etc. all run Linux. All. Period.

But for some reason, that's forgotten in headlines like this one.

20 posted on 04/29/2023 11:46:25 AM PDT by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords! Arthur Pendragon in 2024)
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