Windows 8.1 already surpasses Linux in market penetration

Windows has 90% of the market

Thus, in the latest NetMarketShare graph it can be seen how Windows 8.1, with just over two weeks of launch, has already surpassed all the versions of Linux on the market combined.

Being an update, you can see how it is devouring the space of Windows 8, which still -and with little more than a year on sale – alone has more numbers than all its rivals combined: Linux, Mac OS and others.

And leaping to a global view, Microsoft Windows continues to hold an impressive +90% market share with an iron fist. This cannot be achieved only with marketing – difficult to beat that of Apple -, nor with monopolistic maneuvers.

If not with quality work that provides the necessary value to the most unexpected and unknown users in the most varied situations and needs; that remains faithful to a user who, as we all know, does not marry any technology (as we will see below).

The hindrance of XP and the migration to Windows 7

However, not everything can be joyful when studying these figures, because it is very worrying that one of every computer that runs Windows still uses Windows XP. An obsolete operating system that also prevents access to new technologies such as Internet Explorer 11.

Companies, above all, are anchored in a significant resistance to change; and the hidden costs and consequences of using such an old system are not perceived as critical enough to address the cost of migration.

Also, from what can be gathered, is being migrated to Windows 7 – overall winner among Redmond operating systems -; wasting the opportunity to have the best and most advanced, because of the resistance that comes (surprisingly) from decision makers and technical advisers, not from users.

Tablets and mobile phones

Microsoft's waste of time and slow reflexes regarding Windows Mobile and its successor Windows Phone, is still paying dearly .

Despite the good numbers that are heard about the substantial increase in sales of Nokia phones around the world, the truth is that this operating system is behind the current market players. Far behind.

The fact that BlackBerry, Symbian or even Kindle are ahead, causes concern and makes us reflect on the hard journey through the desert that you are unnecessarily passing Windows Phone; taking into account that Windows Mobile was the absolute king in the incipient Smartphones, letting iPhone and Android eat the toast.

Browsing the Internet from the computer

In browsers there have not been many surprises overall, given the 90% use of Windows in the Desktop sector, it is becoming more and more confusing and diverse.

Internet Explorer sweeps away its competitors; It should be noted that Firefox beats Chrome, which seems to be in decline (perhaps consequences of abandoning “ Don't Be Evil ”?); and that the blocking of Windows XP users in Internet Explorer 8 continues and grows, since the following versions of the browser are not supported in a technology that is more than a decade old.

I'm also very surprised that almost 5% of users still use the outdated version 6 of IE. A version that currently prevents a minimally decent user experience for the browser.

And I'm surprised because we're talking about millions of people who have decided (or have decided for them) that it's not worth upgrading; thing that is free and transparent.