For the second time in three months, Windows has boosted its market share, an Internet measuring company reported Monday.
The increase by the Microsoft Corp. operating system was the largest in over a year, said Net Applications Inc.
During October, 90.46% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net Applications monitors did so from systems powered by Windows. The share was up 0.17 percentage points from September, and was the biggest gain since June 2007, when Windows climbed by 0.4 points.
Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, failed to grow its share for just the fourth time this year. The decline was extremely small, just 0.02 percentage points. Apple's operating system remained above 8% for the second month running, however.
Mac OS X tends to slip slightly each October, according to Net Applications. Last year, for example, the OS slid 0.05 points that month.
Windows' overall gain appeared to come courtesy of a strong showing by Vista, which increased its market share by more than the other editions -- notably Windows XP and Windows 2000 -- lost.
According to Net Applications, Vista added 0.96 percentage points last month to end at 19.29%, while XP and 2000 lost 0.56 and 0.17 points, respectively. Previous increases in total Windows share, including one in August, have also been pegged to stronger-than-average gains by Vista.
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The increase by the Microsoft Corp. operating system was the largest in over a year, said Net Applications Inc.
During October, 90.46% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net Applications monitors did so from systems powered by Windows. The share was up 0.17 percentage points from September, and was the biggest gain since June 2007, when Windows climbed by 0.4 points.
Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, failed to grow its share for just the fourth time this year. The decline was extremely small, just 0.02 percentage points. Apple's operating system remained above 8% for the second month running, however.
Mac OS X tends to slip slightly each October, according to Net Applications. Last year, for example, the OS slid 0.05 points that month.
Windows' overall gain appeared to come courtesy of a strong showing by Vista, which increased its market share by more than the other editions -- notably Windows XP and Windows 2000 -- lost.
According to Net Applications, Vista added 0.96 percentage points last month to end at 19.29%, while XP and 2000 lost 0.56 and 0.17 points, respectively. Previous increases in total Windows share, including one in August, have also been pegged to stronger-than-average gains by Vista.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/153263/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws