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Windows lost market share in the last decade

66 点作者 neverminder将近 3 年前

19 条评论

macNchz将近 3 年前
When I started high school–20 years ago next month–there were about ten of us out of 500 students in the school who had Macs. We somehow all got to know each other and shared software and support for the frequent file compatibility issues we all had when working on homework assignments in a Windows XP dominated world. It was kind of a fun community, if also a bit of a support group.<p>It’s been interesting to watch things shift in the time since, the switch from PowerPC to Intel in the late 2000s seemed to be a sea change moment where suddenly more people were using Macs. I guess the ability to use Windows in a pinch made it a safer choice, and not having a CPU architecture barrier <i>and</i> an OS barrier made it easier to make software for both systems. Obviously we’re in very different times but I’m interested to see how the M1 transition plays out over the next few years. I’ve been surprised so far at how slow it has been for a lot of developer tooling to make the jump–I’ve dead ended at an open Github issue many times trying to help coworkers on M1 get something running locally.<p>I guess I’m a glutton for compatibility issues, as nowadays everyone I know uses a Mac but I’m running Linux.
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narag将近 3 年前
I won&#x27;t buy another Windows laptop. It&#x27;s no longer possible to disable some &quot;features&quot; so I&#x27;ve given up. Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always gets auto-reactivated. External disks that are only connected for archival purposes (and never updated) get scanned again and again, no matter if I exclude them from scanning. Some graphical popups are also impossible to disable.<p>There are only a few appliances that I needed Windows for, I will deal with them with other means.
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smt88将近 3 年前
&gt; <i>According to a StockApps.com data presentation, Windows has lost 17% of its market share in the last decade.</i><p>Hardly a representative sample. The headline is a misleading generalization. Their user base won&#x27;t capture the millions of people forced to use Windows for work.<p>If you include mobile devices, the Windows market share has probably dropped far more, and that&#x27;s a more interesting story that this company can&#x27;t tell us.
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tsomctl将近 3 年前
My grandparents bought a game camera at Costco, so they could see what animals were in their yard at night. I had to help them view the pictures on the SD card. It came with some app to view them, or you could just stick the SD card into any laptop. Figuring that was the easier route, I opened up my grandma&#x27;s laptop and gave them instructions on how to insert the SD card, open Windows Explorer, navigate to the D drive, no wait sorry now it&#x27;s the E drive, open DCIM, right click here, double click, now single click. 5 minutes later I realized how fucking stupid this all is and installed the app on her tablet.
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boomboomsubban将近 3 年前
Their source is &quot;we said so?&quot; This site seems like click bait.
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asciimov将近 3 年前
How much of this is due to the replacement of home windows machines with mobile devices?<p>I know multiple families with kids that don&#x27;t have traditional pc&#x27;s or laptops in their home. Instead everybody has a phone or tablet. If a kid needs to type up a project a parent will bring home a work laptop.
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TheRealDunkirk将近 3 年前
That&#x27;s nice and all, but this is almost meaningless. For 25 years, we&#x27;ve had monthly articles in the Microsoft-funded trade press about how Microsoft has all the market share for computers. The implication, as always, is not to bother buying a Mac, or, eww!, using Linux. All of these numbers, for over 2 decades, have been buoyed by corporate purchases, and mean nothing. As as Unix sysadmin, and one of the most-ardent Linux zealots, inside a Fortune 250 in the late 90&#x27;s and early 00&#x27;s, even I had to admit that it would have been a mistake to deploy the majority of the &quot;corporate fleet&quot; with anything other than Windows. But if you could ever excise the corporate purchasing data out of these numbers, I think you&#x27;d find that Windows has less than 50% of the PERSONAL computing market these days. Maybe even closer to just 25%. I base this on personal observation. Almost no one I know uses a Windows-based computer for their &quot;computer&quot; needs. I&#x27;ve posted about this before, to crickets. If we could get personal buying data from, say, Best Buy and the like, and leave Ziff-Davis and Gartner out of it, I think I could prove it. But I&#x27;m sure they&#x27;re taking money from Microsoft to continue to put the numbers together, so we&#x27;ll never get the &quot;internal&quot; numbers to figure it out from them.
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FractalHQ将近 3 年前
I wish it were more. I get unreasonably upset everytime I have to use Windows because of how incredibly terrible it is in every way compared to MacOS and Linux.
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SnowHill9902将近 3 年前
2022 is the year of OpenBSD.
spaceman_2020将近 3 年前
Maybe Microsoft will now stop spamming me with ads in software I PAID for.
iso1631将近 3 年前
I didn&#x27;t see the actual report, but from the numbers presented, it seems that Windows+Mac has dropped from 99% to 89% in that timeframe.<p>The source seems very ropy though, &quot;our own data presentation&quot;. Great, what&#x27;s the source of that.<p>A poorly written press release too -- &quot;That translates to a 93% gain in that time or an average of roughly 1% per year.&quot;<p>Mixing relative gain (7 percentage points in 9 years or &quot;1% per year&quot;) and absolute gain (93%).
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syntaxing将近 3 年前
Window will continue to dominate the market as most industries uses MS Office. Also, only tech companies can afford MacBooks for every employee. Every other job can only afford PCs. Even getting a $1.5K “CAD workstation laptop” that weighed 15 lbs and 0.5” thick was a struggle. Let alone a $4K 16” MBP.
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nkotov将近 3 年前
There are two groups where I noticed this to be true:<p>- Ordinary, non-tech people. Pretty much every college-aged student that I know of opts for a MacBook Air&#x2F;Pro if they can afford it. Another segment are older people. My parents are in this group. 99% of what they used their computers for (Checking bank balances, paying bills, printing stuff) can be done with an iPhone now. Nowadays, I suggest they just buy an iPad if they want a “computer”.<p>- Businesses that aren’t heavily relying on Microsoft Office. A lot of SMBs use SaaS apps for their line of business and most businesses like using Apple products because long term, they seem to last longer.<p>There is still a place for Windows, especially in specialized fields like finance or in gaming.
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irongeek将近 3 年前
Sure the article is suspect, but I have to kind of believe Windows market share has dropped considerably in homes. When I visit my son at college I see way more Macs and the only tablets I see are iPads. Yes Windows has the business world locked up for now, but the youth are exposed to mostly iPads and Macs. My daughters have never used Windows because I have Macs and Linux computers in our home and at school they have iPads. I realize my home is not typical, but with more exposure to Chromebooks, iPads, and Apple dominating the phone market, at least in the US, I think a lot more people consider Apple computers or a Chromebook if they even need a computer at home.
MilnerRoute将近 3 年前
I Googled &quot;what is Windows market share&quot; -- and got entirely different statistics.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gs.statcounter.com&#x2F;os-market-share" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gs.statcounter.com&#x2F;os-market-share</a><p>It does depend a lot on whether you include mobile devices (where iOS and Android dominate). Here&#x27;s their stats just for desktop systems (where Windows&#x27; share is 76.31%). Not sure what that was 10 years ago...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gs.statcounter.com&#x2F;os-market-share&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;worldwide" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gs.statcounter.com&#x2F;os-market-share&#x2F;desktop&#x2F;worldwide</a>
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seydor将近 3 年前
Maybe that&#x27;s USA related, and even if there is a trend, i dont think MS is threatened by MacOS. It&#x27;s just a different user base. So many people i know who use macs, really get them for some weird perceived &#x27;status&#x27; reasons, and they basically use MS office on them all day. Some of them actually run windows on their desktop mac.
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Cyder将近 3 年前
I disabled Windows Defender using Group policies when it was erasing data from my samba3 server. Group policy is the only way to control windows any more.
anothernewdude将近 3 年前
Does anyone have an idea of what &#x27;Unknown&#x27; implies for OS market share? In some areas it has a 11% market share.
dustinmoris将近 3 年前
Only?
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