Win8 February global share increased to 2.79%

Computer store news: According to foreign media reports, market research company Net Applications today released the global operating system market statistics report in February. The report shows that Microsoft's Windows system has a global market share of 91.62%. The Windows 8 share continued to grow to 2.79%, Windows 7 stopped falling, and the share rebounded to 44.55%.

The report shows that Windows 8 performed well in February, with market share increasing by 0.43 percentage points from 2.36% to 2.79%. After a sharp drop of 0.63 percentage points in January, the Windows7 share increased by 0.07 percentage points from 44.48% to 44.55% in February.

In January of this year, Windows 7 market share suffered the first decline since its release, just over a month before the system broke through 45%. It seems that Windows 7 is hard to reach a 45% market share again. However, the rebound in Windows 7's share is not very surprising, because there are still PCs pre-installed with Windows 7 on the market, and the growth of Windows 8 share has not reached expectations. Windows 8’s share in December increased by 0.66 percentage points, which means that the system’s growth in January and February this year has decreased.

With the $15 Windows 8 upgrade service due at the end of February, it is difficult for Microsoft to avoid a slowdown in sales. Microsoft hopes that students will be able to take advantage of Microsoft's $70 Windows 8 upgrade service and OEMs to take advantage of powerful hardware configurations to attract consumers. It is unclear whether the Windows 7 share will return to 45% again and will be known next month. As mentioned earlier, Windows 7 experienced its first share decline since its release in January, and the industry is watching its March performance.

Windows Vista shares fell 0.07 percentage points from 5.24% to 5.17%, and are likely to fall below 5%. Windows XP shares fell 0.52 percentage points from 39.51% to 38.99%, which is good news for Microsoft.

By the end of 2012, Microsoft's Windows share had grown after a six-month decline, mainly due to Windows 7 and Windows 8. However, in 2013, the Windows share began to decline again. During the period from January to February this year, the Windows share decreased by 0.09 percentage points from 91.71% to 91.62%. This is mainly because Apple's Mac OS X share increased by 0.09 percentage points to 7.17%, and the Linux share remained at 1.21%.