Increasing market share of Windows 8 has slowed

Increasing market share of Windows 8 has slowed

     The growth of the user base of Windows 8 last month has slowed even more striking by popularity suffering from the operating system. As the latest statistics monitoring company Net Applications, in July 2013 Windows 8 showed minimal growth rate since the release of the Linux operating system in October 2012. According metric Net Applications, now the share of the operating system is only 5.9% of the total number of Windows- computers in the world.

After October 2012, a few months OS gained about 1% per month, but since 2013 this trend has come to naught, and now at the end of July this OS has added only 0.2%. In June, an increase of about 0.5%. authors of the report suggest that the decline in popularity is likely due to the fact that the PC industry there are problems with the sale and consumers are increasingly working with tablets and smartphones. preferring to spend the money available to them, and not for the purchase of a new PC.

Previously, by their own figures, these arguments and confirmed by IDC and Garnter, reported more than 10% drop in the PC market for the year. Net Applications noted that while the majority of users of Windows 8 is regarded as a consumer OS level, as business continues to Windows 7. Therefore, on Windows 8 has, above all, the fall of retail sales in the retail segment.

Thus, the authors of the report say that the most popular Windows is still Windows XP. Although the OS is officially loses technical support in April 2014, on it are still 40.6% of users of Windows.