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Global distribution of operating system market share in December 2012

Beijing time January 2 news, according to foreign media reports, market research institute Net Applications recently released data on the market share of the Windows operating system in December 2012. Data shows that in December last year, Microsoft's Windows operating system share has increased, although the share did not increase significantly, but the change is very obvious, and thus get rid of the dilemma of the previous six months of continuous decline.

The latest data from Net Applications shows that December 2012 is also a relatively eye-catching month for Windows 8. During the period, Windows 8 market share increased by 0.55% (from 1.09% to 1.64%), while Windows 7's global market share increased by 0.40% (from 44.71% to 45.11%). The industry believes that the real sharp rise in Windows 8 is likely to occur in January this year.

In December 2012, the global market share of the Windows 7 operating system broke through 45% for the first time, but it was a month of decline in Windows Vista share. In December 2012, Windows Vista's global market share fell by 0.03% (from the previous 5.7% to 5.67%), but it is not expected to drop to below 5% soon; at the same time, Windows XP's global market share is It fell by 0.74% (from the previous 39.82% to 39.08%).

Overall, during December 2012, Windows’ global market share increased by 0.29% (from 91.45% to 91.74%), which is the system’s shrinking for several months. After the first growth. Of course, the market share growth of Windows systems is also at the expense of OS X. In December 2012, OS X's global market share fell by 0.23%, while Linux also fell by 0.06%.

Although Windows 8 has been officially launched for more than a month, only less than half of users are still using the default IE10 browser. At present, the global market share of IE10 browser is only 0.96%.