To be a little more specific, here’s a graph that illustrates which operating system versions are most popular in the market share.
The other 4% is owned by other operating systems such as Linux.
Statistics show that Microsoft Windows has approximately 91% of the market share, while the Apple Mac OS has around 5% of the market share. In the mean while, Apple has strictly designed their operating system to fit perfectly in their own hardware. As a result, Microsoft is more popular than other operating systems in the market. To put it in easier terms Microsoft sold it’s operating systems to various computer companies, allowing a broad distribution for its operating systems. In the other hand, Apple designed its software for close integration of computer hardware and software, which means it’s not compatible with other computer hardware. The reason for this domination is simply because Microsoft designed its operating systems to be compatible with various hardware created by a wide range of computer companies such as Dell, IBM, hp, and Sony, etc. It’s no secret Microsoft dominates the world’s operating systems market. The first Mac The first Windows Who is more successful, and why In 2009, Microsoft was reported to have approximately 91% of the operating systems market share. Microsoft quickly took over the world’s PC market leaving the Mac OS behind it. The Apple Macintosh continued to sell successfully through the second half of the 1980s until its sales began to decline in the 1990s when the market shifted towards the IBM PC that was running a Microsoft Windows operating system. In short, all we want to do in this post is lay out all the facts for you, the consumer, so that you can decide all on your own! Who started the GUI computer?Īccording to Wikipedia, the first successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface (GUI) was the Apple Macintosh, and it was introduced on the 24th of January 1984.Ībout a year later, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Windows in November 1985 in response to the growing interest in the GUIs. There was a time I toyed around with Linux, mostly the Ubuntu.
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