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- MurphyMac, on 12/04/2008, -8/+60Scared? Worried? Maybe not. But they're definitely paying a lot more attention than they were in 2003.
- jjustin01, on 12/04/2008, -5/+53OMG! They only have 88.32% of the market! What will they ever do?!
Stupid Digg FP spam. If their numbers were down in the 70s the title might be more appropriate, but seeing how they haven't moved that much, this is over-hyped. - tomakaze, on 12/04/2008, -23/+61Yay another Macsturbation article.
- replaysMike, on 12/03/2008, -13/+47Yea - I'm sure they're real worried.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -3/+36Windows 3.1 FTW!
- davidjunit, on 12/04/2008, -10/+41THEY'RE NOT SCARED NOW AND THEY WEREN'T SCARED THE LAST 500 TIMES CRAP LIKE THIS WAS POSTED ON DIGG.
/yelling - dystra, on 12/04/2008, -3/+29No
- sirjimithy, on 12/04/2008, -3/+27I'd like to know exactly how "MacIntel" is an OS... and how it's different from "Mac OS"
It should all fall under "Mac OS X" - Zippo, on 12/04/2008, -0/+22As far as I'm concerned, all of the major players should always be worried. When a company relaxes, production and innovation slow to a halt and they get lazy.
- jonesyno, on 12/04/2008, -1/+18Windows 3.11 For Workgroups!
- jb12321, on 12/04/2008, -1/+16Not fake worried, but real worried?
- Ranvier, on 12/04/2008, -5/+19OSX should be more worried that Windows 2000 is going to catch up, since it's far closer than they are to catching up with XP and Vista.
- boldfire, on 12/04/2008, -1/+14Seriously, I think it's time we can all drop the "M$" pun now.
- bkdeamon, on 12/04/2008, -6/+18I'm the only person in my office who prefers Windows. So, this is a nice little stats sheet for me to finally yell about. I'll still lose though, Mac users have been brain washed. It's true. Honest.
- digitalpencil, on 12/04/2008, -8/+20"It’s not like Microsoft should panic now that that they’ve dipped below 90 percent; nor should Apple crow that they’re up to nearly 9. That’s a 10 to 1 disparity; it’s pretty obvious which one is the 800 pound gorilla in the room."
So basically, they've answered their own question, 'no'. May i now as what the point of all those graphs was? - ScientistBlah, on 12/04/2008, -1/+12Is this going to be a monthly thing now? How many "Should Microsoft be Worried?" articles have we seen in the last year or so? Seriously.
- 6oo63D, on 12/04/2008, -0/+9I asked my 4-year old daughter and she said no.
- bradhe, on 12/04/2008, -3/+12Yeah but Netscape wasn't produced by a highly-diversified company. Windows is their cash cow but they've got a lot of tricks up their sleeve. To say Microsoft is worried about "slipping market share" is a rediculuous statement. They posted $18 billion in profits last year -- even with a crappy OS release.
$18 billion
Doesn't sound like they're doin' too bad for themselves to me. - Gravey9, on 12/04/2008, -0/+9I was thinking this too, 88% of the market? That's a companies dream, this article is seriously inaccurate.
- weareglass, on 12/04/2008, -3/+11I think it's ludicrous to suggest that Microsoft is unconcerned at these results. Certainly, Windows will undoubtedly be around for a long time yet. They are unlikely to be worried about Apple usurping them in terms of install base. What I think would worry folks at a company that makes Windows is that as less people buy Windows, or machines with it installed, income is eroded. And at a company built on the back of OS and Office sales, with many other departments losing money (I'm looking at you, Zune and MSN) the folks at Microsoft need to keep that revenue flowing, especially in times like the present economy. 4% may seem like a small number, but 4% of $500 billion is $20 billion. That is a lot of revenue to lose, and it does not appear that this trend is going away.
- jjustin01, on 12/04/2008, -2/+10Without much notice? Dude, where the hell were you at? That's all the tech industry could talk about for a few years.
- foofightrs777, on 12/04/2008, -3/+11MacIntel is the Intel version of OSX. As opposed to MacOS (MacPPC) which is the PowerPC version of OSX. If it bothers you that much MacIntel+MacOS=MacTotal
They should not be merged because while they are visually the same the two OSes run on completely different hardware architecture. Tracking the two separately shows how many users are hanging ontothe PowerPC platform as opposed to how many have migrated to OSXIntel or possibly other Oses. - moethelawn, on 12/04/2008, -1/+9Vista is actually pretty stable. Had it for 2 years and no bluescreen. Nowhere near how many times ME bluescreened lol
- weddie, on 12/04/2008, -1/+9What a piece of **** article. The technique in which the OS numbers are calculated is based off of browser web hits and their associated operating system.
"We use a unique methodology for collecting this data. We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of live stats customers."
Maybe they should take into account the millions of Windows and Linux web servers which aren't counted since they don't access the market research company's data collectors. And how about a company's internal file and mail servers. - KaiUno, on 12/04/2008, -1/+9Better yet, why the hell did they look so crappy?
- D3koy, on 12/04/2008, -0/+8What, me worry?
-Bill - Charlotte_Web, on 12/04/2008, -2/+9Down from a height of ~96% in the late 90's. Having a 10% loss is a HUGE deal.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -0/+7FYI: You're a moron. Vista has more share than all other OS's(minus XP) combined! That's; XP: 66.31%; Vista: 20.45%; leaving 13.24%. Vista has nearly double that.
Think about that. Seriously. - seltaeb4, on 12/04/2008, -1/+8Furthermore, it wasn't so much an investment as it was a settlement.
Microsoft agreed to pay up that meager sum to buy their way out of all remaining lawsuits from the Sculley era. It resolved the intellectual property lawsuits over Microsoft's blatant theft of the Mac's "look and feel." Further, it was cheap insurance against government litigation for MS's monopolistic practices.
For PR reasons Microsoft insisted it be billed as an "equity investment." Anyone who has any familiarity with Silicon Valley history knows this.
Before digging ravenpen and me down, Microsoft apologists really should look up the details. - drlha, on 12/04/2008, -4/+10Invest stock in Redmond based Office Chair suppliers ASAP.
- DickMasterson2, on 12/04/2008, -3/+8Hell NO!
- techdever, on 12/04/2008, -3/+8i think AboveandBeyond is talking about the recent mac adoption boost.. not the actual platform.
- Benjigga, on 12/04/2008, -0/+5Not real worried, but fake worried?
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -1/+6Vista's share > all other OSs minus XP's share. 20.45% for Vista.. 13.24% for all others besides XP & Vista.
Apparently you MISSED that glaringly obvious statistic. - t0ny, on 12/04/2008, -0/+5Ya, this is a good thing for MS users. Why? Microsoft is going to go ***** about all those lost sales so they will have to improve their products to bring back their users.
Competition is a good thing. More Apple users = harder Microsoft needs to work.
You Apple haters need to shut up. If you dont like it then dont use it. - ravenpen, on 12/04/2008, -2/+7Can the myth of the Microsoft bailout of Apple finally be put to rest.
Microsoft didn't save Apple. They invested 150 million into Apple and agreed to make a new Mac version of Office to make MS look less anticompetitive.
150 million wasn't enough money to keep a company like Apple afloat for more than a few months, especially in 1997 when they were hemorrhaging cash, and it certainly wasn't enough to "save them".
Apple was saved by the return of Steve Jobs and the introduction of the iMac and the company became a force to be reckoned with again with the introduction of the iPod. - FKnight, on 12/04/2008, -6/+11I'm sure Microsoft are quaking in their boots over this.
To even ask this question with the data presented in the article is an admission to being delusional. - FKnight, on 12/04/2008, -2/+7As far as I can recall from everything I've read on Digg and Slashdot, Microsoft has been 'worried', 'scared', 'desperate', and 'about to die' for about a decade now because people are "moving to Mac and Linux in DROVES"
hahahahahaha - inactive, on 12/04/2008, -9/+13To be misleading... like all of Apple's propaganda.
- tetsuo29, on 12/04/2008, -0/+4Discussions on Digg are pretty lame lately. Seems like the number of logic challenged people posting things far outweighs those that are able to use their grey matter.
Yes, the article's headline is a bit sensationalistic, possibly even misleading. However, the point of the article (and unless I've just overlooked it, I don't see anyone discussing it here) is that Microsoft's growth has flatlined while Apple's has not. What this means, if anything, is what we should see a discussion of here. But, instead, we just see the same old Mac vs. Windows flame war that has been going on since the early 90's. - mooninite, on 12/04/2008, -2/+6Joe Smoe: "Hi, computer store, I would like a new computer."
Employee: "Here you go." *Hands the customer a Windows Vista computer*
This is how most computer purchases happen. Most customers have no idea what version of Windows they are running. Microsoft is still a monopoly. (Linux user here) Especially in the enterprise sector unless the IT department is wise enough to use a different OS, which is very rare unfortunately. I bet you 90% of the Windows figures that anyone has ever made are from ignorance sales. They know no better or use it "just because." - weareglass, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3I'm sure that there are divisions of Microsoft that are also profitable, but it's obvious they make the lion's share of their PROFITS from Windows and Office. The gaming division brings in huge revenues but has been reported as becoming profitable only recently (if at all). They certainly do have revenue from a number of sources, but the issue is that they are putting more money in to most of those divisions than they are getting out of them, thus they can only exist because of the financial success of Windows and Office.
- MacParrot, on 12/04/2008, -1/+4Moved that much since when? Since 2001-2? What was their marketshare then? 94-96%? If Microsoft isn't concerned then they're very foolish
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -2/+5Behold the powerful erosion capabilities of washing!
- trollick, on 12/04/2008, -0/+3Hmm... Windows share is 10 times larger than everybody else added together... Why should they be scared again?
- evilrobot, on 12/04/2008, -1/+4People still use Win 2K?!?!
- Tenoq, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3'now'?
I guess the graphs are just pointing out the obvious - each year a few more convert from Windows to Mac, and that trend looks set to continue. As stated at the end of the article - the last two years saw a 56% increase in Mac usage. If it's another 56% over the next two years, Mac usage will be just shy of 14%.
That's a few lost sales right there... and you'd bet your ass MS is sitting up and taking notice. - j3ff86, on 12/04/2008, -1/+4Buy 'em out boys!
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