Windows 7 Gains In Market Share Race Over Mac OS X

As per the weekend reports, the latest operating system Windows 7 has fared better in market share than Apple’s Mac OS X. Net Applications has reported that Windows 7 has passed the 5% market share, which is more than the total market share of all versions of Apple's Mac OS X.

The internet metrics firm has also reported that, the Windows 7 has achieved the distinction of getting a constant 5% and 5.14% throughout the last week between Nov 15-21. The statistics also showed that its 5.07% for two-day average was also higher than the Mac OS X during that period.

"It's safe to say that Windows 7's daily share did peak above Mac's weekly share," said Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president at Net Applications.

According to Vizzaccaro, his company has not yet compiled daily averages for Mac OS X, but they are confident that Windows 7 will fare well for a long stretch.

"Certainly, the trend line shows Windows 7 will surpass Mac share soon," he predicted.

Statistics also shows that, Windows has done better than the previous share of 92.54% in October. Earlier, it had gained 0.28% in March 2008, the largest gain till now.

 "We may be seeing an uptick in overall Windows share this month," Vizzaccaro confirmed.

 "This isn't too rare, but if we see three or four months in a row of Windows regaining market share, that would be a significant trend change," he added.

It has been noticed that Windows 7’s market share is growing steadily since Oct 22 and soon it has also climbed up to 2.7% in OS sales. Its fourth week sale in October stood at 3.7%. So at the current pace of selling the new OS would cross 4% in market share gains.