OK. I am back! After having to pass my first Oracle certification. Anyway, back to the topic today. It’s Vista time again.
Windows Vista has less than 1% of the market share according to a market research report released on Thursday. Aliso Viejo-based Net Applications Inc, the company tracking the operating system market share, gives the figures below for each OS in the market for the month of February.
- Windows XP: 84.33%
- Windows 2000: 4.75%
- Mac OS X - PowerPC: 4.29%
- Mac OS X - Intel: 2.09%
- Windows 98: 1.50%
- Windows Vista: 0.93%
- Linux: 0.42%
Windows Vista 0.93% market share is a vast improvement over January’s 0.18%. Despite Microsoft’s intention to spend half a billion dollars marketing Vista, conversions from XP won’t be the norm until 2009. The primary reason to stay in Windows XP is the lack of needs. Most killer applications reside on the Internet these days.
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