All December usage statistics should be read in that context." "This in turn increases the relative usage share of Mac.and other products that have relatively high residential usage. "The December holiday season strongly favored residential over business usage," the company said on its Web site.
WINDOWS VS MAC PERCENT MARKET MAC OS X
Net Applications again attributed some of the decline of Windows and the corresponding growth of Mac OS X to special circumstances. Mac OS X's market share was up 2.3 percentage points during 2008, an annual growth rate of 31.7 percent. Those months' combined gain of 1.4 percentage points was substantially larger than the earlier record, a 0.9 percentage point boost the operating system received in September-October 2006, and almost double the 0.73 percentage point increase of November-December 2007.
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December was the first time that Net Applications had pegged Apple's operating system above the 9 percent mark.Īnd just as Windows set a record for a two-month drop, Mac OS X set a record for a two-month increase during November and December. For the second month in a row, Mac OS X posted a record increase, growing by 0.76 of a percentage point to end the month at 9.6 percent. Microsoft's OS ended the year down 3.1 percentage points, a 3.4 percent drop in its share from the same time last year.Īpple's Mac OS X's market share continued to grow at Windows' expense. The combined decline of November and December totaled 1.8 percentage points, Windows' biggest two-month dip ever, nearly double that of its previous record, a 0.92 percentage point fall in December 2007 and January 2008.
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During November, Windows' market share slipped 0.84 percentage point, dropping the operating system under 90 percent for the first time since Net Applications has been tracking OS use.