Windows XP has stopped shipping from the major PC builders by now. Looking back, one can only conclude that the operating system has been a huge success. It may not have had the best start, but it caught on rather fast and grew to become the undisputed leading operating system on the planet. Even if WinXP has been losing shares to Windows Vista over the last year, it still holds more than 71% of the market, with Vista on 16.1%, says Netapplications.
Netapplications gathers its statistics from thousands of websites around the globe and beside that Windows XP has been fading slowly, very slowly over the last year, Vista isn’t the only operating system to gain ground. Intel Mac OSX almost doubled its share from 2.8% to 5.25%, while the older PPC OS X only dropped from 3.35% to 2.69%. The Linux figures are surprisingly low, not surprisingly much lower than our own data, but it says Linux grew from 0.4% to 0.8%.
