Andre Yoskowitz
5 Dec 2012 21:25
According to NetApplications, Windows XP has fallen below 40 percent market for the first time since it passed the mark a decade ago.
Windows 7 kept its majority stake, at 44.71 percent, up from 36 percent at the beginning of the year. XP began the year at 47 percent.
Vista continued its slow but sure decline, falling from 8 percent at the beginning of the year to 5.7 percent now.
Windows 8, released in late October, moved up to 1.09 percent share.
Apple's Mac OS X versions 10.6 and 10.7 combined for 4.38 percent while Linux and "others" combined for the remaining 4.5 percent.