An excellent and relevant blog post on Microsoft's OS share:
http://www.asymco.com/2013/06/03/forecasting-windows-market-share/
Short version:
- Microsoft's share of the PC OS market has collapsed from 95% to 60% in just three years.
- This isn't dooooooom for Windows, as they will almost certainly hold onto enough users (especially lucrative enterprise customers) to remain viable for both developers and end users.
But as Mark Shuttleworth noted earlier this week, Microsoft's monopoly is now broken. That puts Microsoft is a less comfortable position, which is why we're seeing big gambles from the company again in products like Windows 8/RT and Surface, and why they're restructuring to improve execution on consumer products. Seems like a good thing to me, but Microsoft shareholders might have been more happy with a rent-taking monopolist.
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