Mac OS X gains foothold in Europe face a Windows. Difficult to maintain its share of walking when you’re the undisputed leader. Microsoft makes the Windows experience that lost ground to Mac OS X..

According to AT Internet Institute, in a year, the operating system from the Redmond company has lost more than two points in Europe face a rival to Apple.

The Windows market share increased from 93.3 % in August 2009 was 91.1 % for the same period in 2010. At the same time that Apple has increased from 5.4 % to 7.4%. Linux appears to stabilize a 0.9 %, falling Silicon.com.

With more than 9 out of 10 users (remember that the study is based on the analysis, for nearly 15 000 partner sites in 23 European countries, the operating system of Internet users) Windows OS is undoubtedly the first of march.

But what Windows? Despite his advanced age for an operating system), Windows XP dominates with 51.3 % market share.

Followed by Vista (20.7%). A year after its release, Windows 7 is found on 17.5 % of the machines. A diffusion driven primarily by consumer purchases of new PCs..

Note that if Mac OS X (Intel platform) is the bulk of visits analyzed (5.7%), from IOS (mainly from the iPhone or the iPod and iPad touch) now holds 1.4 % of visits. Rapid growth almost doubled since March 2010 (0.8%). The OS of the Cupertino running on platforms prior to 2006 (IBM PowerPC) remained stable at 0.5 %.

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