And in the Apple market, Lion is still trailing two-year-old Snow Leopard
Data: NetApplications. Graph: PED
In its final monthly report for 2011, NetApplications offers a window on the shifting fates of the various flavors of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows and Mac OS X that show up at its 40,000 clients' websites.
As a rule, creaky old legacy systems dominate.
Windows XP, which Microsoft introduced in August 2001, is still the single most-present PC operating system, with a 46.5% share of global Web traffic.
And Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), which Apple (AAPL) launched in Aug. 2009, still has a 3.1% market share to Lion's 2.0%
But despite the persistence of aging OSs, there was a lot of rapid movement in 2011. Lion's Web presence went from 0% to 2% in just over two months. And Windows 7, for its part, went from 21.7% to 37% in the space of a year, a 71% increase.
It was not a good year for Vista or "Other," however. Both experienced significant share drops in 2011.
For a summary of NetApplications methodology, see here.
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Source: Apple Inc.
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Believe it or not, the author of Ed Bott's Microsoft Report is doing Apple a favor
Source: ZDNet
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No. But there's some bad news rising on the Apple malware front
Bogus MAC Defender virus scan. Source: Intego
Let's see if we can handle this one as a Q&A.
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One of the architects of Mac OS X -- and a top Steve Jobs lieutenant -- is out
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Source: Engadget
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Today Apple launched its long-awaited Mac App Store, a desktop version of the popular marketplace that iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad owners already use to download mobile apps.
Image by sjsharktank via Flickr
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YouTube Mobile on Android
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Enterprise installed base. Source: Forrester
When Microsoft (MSFT) launches Windows 7 next week, its biggest competitor -- especially in the multi-user enterprises that are its target market -- will not be Linux or Apple's (AAPL) Mac OS X, but Windows XP.
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Microsoft (MSFT) Windows ended the first quarter of 2009 with an Internet market share -- as measured by Web hits -- of 88.14%, 3.37 points (or 3.68%) smaller than last year, according to preliminary data released overnight Tuesday by the Web metrics firm Net Applications.
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