Operating System Market Share for May, 2007

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Tiberius said:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

Interesting pie.... chart...

I am not saying anything else.. its just a pie chart.. dont eat it and dont
throw it at each other! :-)
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Nah. pie is not the ammo of choice in this group, it is the ammo of
choice in Bill Gate's neck of the woods. It seems that the favorite
ammo around here is monkey dung.

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Tiberius said:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

Interesting pie.... chart...

I am not saying anything else.. its just a pie chart.. dont eat it and dont
throw it at each other! :-)
Click to expand...

Trends to me are more interesting than a single month report - see
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5. What's interesting
there is that the combination of Windows 2000 and XP has dropped 3.77%
and Windows Vista has increased by 3.74%. So Vista, as expected, is
taking shares from previous versions of Windows. OK, that's not really
very interesting.

But during the same period the combination of MacOS and MacIntel has
increased by 2.18% while other OS's (various *nix distributions?) have
lost 2.15% of the market share.

So Vista isn't really helping MS but isn't hurting them either. Mac on
the Intel platform (as that is 2.15% of the 2.18% increase in Mac share)
is helping Apple. But the Apple increase doesn't appear to be coming at
the expense of Microsoft but rather at the expense of the other OS's.

I've said it before. Apple is in a position to make big moves in the OS
market if they are bold enough to do what needs to be done.
Unfortunately, so far they do not appear to have the fortitude or desire
to make bold moves in that direction. Releasing Safari for Windows is
hardly a bold move. Instead, Apple appears happy to let the small gains
keep them going. But there is only so much "other" OS slice of pie to
eat. Eventually, if they want to keep growing, they must start taking
share from Windows. Something that they don't appear to be doing based
on the statistics tracked on that site.
 
Hi,

Thank you for this link.

What was XP's market share 5 months after its launch, say march 2002 ?

ThePro
 
that was my favorite part too. I can see Doris out making new tee shirts
right now.
Ubuntu : We Beat Win ME !!
 
KDE said:
that was my favorite part too. I can see Doris out making new tee shirts
right now.
Ubuntu : We Beat Win ME !!
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That's funny!
Will they come x large?
Frank
 
No, he isn't. A troll, maybe, but not Linux. Although, his overly energetic
antiVista-ProXP preaching makes him look like one.

KB

"Dave" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
 
I like this: Windows 98 market share is still twice that of Linux? Even the
dreaded Windows ME is still just under the market share of Linux...

Robert Firth
http://www.winvistainfo.org
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Use you brain bro, those are the people who got a business PC and have
never upgraded and at this point can't until they buy a new
PC.........10 years from now Vista will have a similiar market share
regardless of whether Linux, Apple or someone else has 90%+ of the
market.
 
* Tom Porterfield:
Trends to me are more interesting than a single month report - see
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5. What's interesting
there is that the combination of Windows 2000 and XP has dropped 3.77%
and Windows Vista has increased by 3.74%. So Vista, as expected, is
taking shares from previous versions of Windows. OK, that's not really
very interesting.

But during the same period the combination of MacOS and MacIntel has
increased by 2.18% while other OS's (various *nix distributions?) have
lost 2.15% of the market share.

So Vista isn't really helping MS but isn't hurting them either. Mac on
the Intel platform (as that is 2.15% of the 2.18% increase in Mac share)
is helping Apple. But the Apple increase doesn't appear to be coming at
the expense of Microsoft but rather at the expense of the other OS's.

I've said it before. Apple is in a position to make big moves in the OS
market if they are bold enough to do what needs to be done.
Unfortunately, so far they do not appear to have the fortitude or desire
to make bold moves in that direction. Releasing Safari for Windows is
hardly a bold move. Instead, Apple appears happy to let the small gains
keep them going. But there is only so much "other" OS slice of pie to
eat. Eventually, if they want to keep growing, they must start taking
share from Windows. Something that they don't appear to be doing based
on the statistics tracked on that site.
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<quote>
I've said it before. Apple is in a position to make big moves in the OS
market if they are bold enough to do what needs to be done.
</quote>

I absolutely agree, Tom. I have believed that for awhile.

Apple could really shake up the OS market.


-Michael
 
MICHAEL said:
* Tom Porterfield:



<quote>
I've said it before. Apple is in a position to make big moves in the OS
market if they are bold enough to do what needs to be done.
</quote>

I absolutely agree, Tom. I have believed that for awhile.

Apple could really shake up the OS market.


-Michael
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Nah...they blew that opportunity when SJ stopped/blocked other
manufacturers from doing Apple.
It was a turning point for the company as history correctly denotes.
But if you're a share holder who cares? Apple is into other things and
the stock is soaring.
Frank
 
* Frank:
Nah...they blew that opportunity when SJ stopped/blocked other
manufacturers from doing Apple.
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That was a different time.... things change.
It was a turning point for the company as history correctly denotes.
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Turning points don't stop just because you turned one corner.
But if you're a share holder who cares? Apple is into other things and
the stock is soaring.
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A coupe of billion in extra profit could be a huge motivator.
Microsoft makes several billion off Windows per quarter, with
all the mostly positive press Apple gets.... they could take an
immediate slice of Microsoft's OS profit pie.


-Michael
 
No, but you can get one in OS X large


----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Operating System Market Share for May, 2007

that was my favorite part too. I can see Doris out making new tee shirts
right now.
Ubuntu : We Beat Win ME !!
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That's funny!
Will they come x large?
Frank
 
MICHAEL said:
* Frank:



That was a different time.... things change.




Turning points don't stop just because you turned one corner.




A coupe of billion in extra profit could be a huge motivator.
Microsoft makes several billion off Windows per quarter, with
all the mostly positive press Apple gets.... they could take an
immediate slice of Microsoft's OS profit pie.


-Michael
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Call Steve and pitch your...whatever it is you're pitching?
The Mac os is obviously now secondary to Steve as he's making himself,
the company and it's share holders so much more money on the other
products without all the os involved hassles. Smart move.
Steve (like Bill) is not stupid.
Frank
 
* Frank:
Call Steve and pitch your...whatever it is you're pitching?
The Mac os is obviously now secondary to Steve as he's making himself,
the company and it's share holders so much more money on the other
products without all the os involved hassles. Smart move.
Steve (like Bill) is not stupid.
Frank
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We'll see, Frank.


-Michael
 
LOL!!

One must be me!

Lang Murphy said:
Famous old cartoon from the New Yorker: two dogs sitting at a keyboard
with monitor. One dog says to the other "On the internet, no one knows
you're a dog."

Lang
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xfile said:
LOL!!

One must be me!
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XFile... yeah, funny cartoon. I mentioned it because there's so much data
out there... who knows what's true and what's manufactured? Probably more
"manufactured" data than true data... from all sides!

Lang
 
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