Vista Use Grows as Mac OS X Stays Flat 387
jdelator writes to mention ComputerWorld is reporting that Microsoft's Windows Vista has increased their market share steadily every month while their main opponent, Mac OS X, has remained essentially flat. "According to Net Applications, in June Windows Vista accounted for 4.52% of all systems that browsed the Web, up from January's 0.18%. Vista has grown its usage share each month since its release to consumers Jan. 30, hitting 0.93% in February, 2.04% in March, 3.02% in April and 3.74% in May. Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, accounted for 6.22% in January and hit its high point of 6.46% in May, but it slipped back to 6% in June. If Vista's uptake trend continues, it should pass Mac OS X in Web usage share by the end of August."
FP? (Score:1, Interesting)
misleading (Score:4, Interesting)
Does not show all OS X users (Score:2, Interesting)
iPhone (Score:2, Interesting)
but I doubt anyone using that would ever go back to windows. I wouldn't.
And it wouldn't really have an impact unfortunately.
I would however change my Tiger for a Leopard when it comes out, and add a notebook to boot. Can someone
give me the sites which are being watched; I'll just add some script visiting every one of those
sites with my Linux and OS X machines. Bye bye windows
I also wonder whether the iPhone counts as OS X, and whether a million devices would make an impact
on the statistics.
Re:Misleading sensationalism, as usual (Score:5, Interesting)
"Likewise, Vista's increases have come at the expense of Windows XP and Windows 2000, both of which have dropped in usage since January. Windows XP, for instance, accounted for 85.02% of all machines that month but was down to 81.94% in June. Windows overall total has remained flat, ranging between 90.01% and 90.46% through the first six months of the year."
You DID read the article before posting didn't you? Oh wait, I almost forgot, this is Slashdot.
Re:Very silly statistic! (Score:3, Interesting)
Also, among potential Mac switchers, it is probably common knowledge that now is not the time to buy. Let's wait until this time next year, after Leopard has started to settle in and more people have gotten frustrated by Vista. We could see a very different picture.
And Windows users buy PCs more often (Score:5, Interesting)
Macs, on the other hand, tend to be kept a lot longer. There are a good number of folks with 5-6 year old Macs that are still happily using them. Every one of those six-year-old macs means that Apple has 1/2 the OS sales (per user) as Windows.
That's why I'm baffled by the spurrious price comparisons between Macs and Windows PCs. Sure my PowerBook cost 25% more than your Dell. But in three years, when you send your Dell off to laptop heaven (or more likely, if it's Dell, laptop hell) my PowerBook will still have at least three years of useful life left. Making your 25% "savings" actually a loss.
Vista Numbers Suggest Poor Adoption (Score:5, Interesting)
There is a story here and the Register got it. (Score:5, Interesting)
We were just talking about how browser stats are useless [slashdot.org]. The only hard use number so far comes from disappointing memory sales [slashdot.org], and M$'s bottom line [slashdot.org] which show Vista is not being used much.
The real story is that the upgrade train is out of steam. M$ introduced both a new OS and a new office suit without a real change their bottom line [theregister.co.uk]. Their market is stagnant and will only decline as people get sick of XP and see Vista as even worse. The tipping point has arrived.
Re:Vista Numbers Suggest Poor Adoption (Score:5, Interesting)
Give it another year and then I think you can legitimately say that Vista adoption is seriously lagging the growth of the market.
Slow sales show the M$ party is over. (Score:1, Interesting)
Why stop at August - in a mere 9 years it will have 110% of the market!
M$ depends on growth to feed it's "restricted" stock compensation plans. Vista adoption is slower than any Windoze version ever. Significantly, it has not made a dent on M$'s bottom line. [theregister.co.uk] They have already been losing developers to Google and other competitors based on the failure of their stock options plans - options for $150 when the stock is selling at $25 are kind of insulting.
They are in the non free death spiral. The downward spiral begins with long development time and poor quality, like Vista exhibits. It ends with the realization that M$'s triumph is not self assured. People can and will use other software when the M$ upgrade gravy train is over. Witness the ultimate end, $200 gnu/linux laptops [engadget.com]. At that price point there's no room for the M$ tax. The squeeze makes it even more difficult for them to develop product and things just get worse for them.
Their efforts to own free software are a threat, but one that will be vanquished in short order by everyone else who's making good money with honest software. M$ can join the party or die.
Good grief (Score:3, Interesting)
Mac fanboy and proud of it (It dual boots Gentoo so phtsssst!)
Re:Misleading sensationalism, as usual (Score:4, Interesting)
<code>
Month XP+2K+Vista MacOS + Intel
July, 2006 90.39% 4.29%
August, 2006 90.72% 4.33%
September, 2006 90.70% 4.72%
October, 2006 90.50% 5.21%
November, 2006 90.52% 5.39%
December, 2006 90.46% 5.67%
January, 2007 90.13% 6.22%
February, 2007 90.01% 6.38%
March, 2007 90.32% 6.08%
April, 2007 90.09% 6.21%
May, 2007 90.07% 6.46%
June, 2007 90.46% 6.00%
<code>
Nothing to see here.... (Score:5, Interesting)
Yup, just like they have for the last twenty years. 95% +/- a point or two of new machines sold have been preloaded with whatever Microsoft wants and that isn't likely to change until the Redmond Empire falls. This slow uptake of Vista looks like it is almost entirely being driven by the hardware replacement cycle. Actually this sounds slower than that cycle, makes me wonder just what percentage of new hardware is still being shipped with XP. That should be the headline but the author/publication is obviously a Microsoft Media Whore and they spun it into something positive.
Seriously, ALMOST beating OS X's 6% market share when you are a predatory monopolist who has been cramming Vista down vendor's throats for six+ months now isn't something to be proud of.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Re:Nothing to see here.... (Score:3, Interesting)
I think all this shows is that when the summer comes, OS X users tend to spend more time outside, and less in front of a web browser.
Re:Vista Numbers Suggest Poor Adoption (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Very silly statistic! (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/01/15.15.
In three years they have doubled their share. If they can keep this pace they may be able to hit 10% in another three years.
Re:Nothing to see here.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Nothing to see here.... (Score:1, Interesting)
I know of about 1200 of them right here!