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Worldwide PC sales are falling, and back-to-school sales in the United States dropped by 2.4 percent this year according to The NPD Group, as people turn to tablets instead of basic $500 laptops. While the rising share of Windows 8 should be somewhat encouraging for Microsoft, the greater health of the PC industry is still in jeopardy.
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The vast majority of PC users are still rocking older version of Windows, even though Microsoft originally charged just $40 for Windows 8 Pro upgrades before raising the price to $120 for Windows 8 and $200 for Windows 8 Pro. Apple’s strategy of charging just $20 for OS upgrades is clearly paying off. Worth noting, however, is that nearly half of Mac owners are using the latest version of OS X, called Mountain Lion, according to NetMarketShare. StatCounter and NetMarketShare use different methodologies, but both firms get their data by measuring traffic on a sampling of large websites-and both now place Windows 8 usage ahead of all versions of OS X combined. That trend continued in September, with Windows 8 rising to 8.02 percent, compared to 7.54 percent for OS X. If this news sounds familiar, it’s because last month, rival measurement firm NetMarketShare found that Windows 8 market share had cruised past OS X in August. So while Windows 8’s market share is steadily rising, previous versions aren’t going away. Windows 7 saw a 0.03 drop to 51.98 percent share, Windows XP rose by 0.01 points to 20.59 percent and Windows Vista somehow gained 0.09 points, bringing it to 5.3 percent market share. Meanwhile, older versions of Windows are holding somewhat steady. See that tangled mess of colored lines at the bottom? Windows 8 and OS X are slugging it out in there, while Windows 7 and XP are the clear OS leaders. That was enough to surpass Mac market share, which dropped 0.2 percentage points to 6.98 percent. StatCounter’s numbers for September show 7.46 percent market share for Windows 8, an increase of 0.44 percent over the previous month. It took 11 months, but Microsoft’s Windows 8 has passed Apple’s OS X in market share, according to StatCounter.
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