END OF AN ERA FOR MICROSOFT AS GOOGLE MERCILESSLY TAKES OVER

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It’s the end of an era: Android has overtaken Windows as the world’s most popular operating system, marginally edging out Microsoft’s software.The margin is small and mainly down to the dominance of Android in Asia, according to the latest figures from web analytics company StatCounter. However, it does indicate a shift in the market that could mean difficulties for Microsoft.

StatCounter said Android internet usage showed a 37.93 per cent share across desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile, just ahead of Windows at 37.94 per cent.However, in Ireland, Windows remains top of the operating systems, although its share has fallen from 44 per cent a year ago to 36.3 per cent in march 2017. Android has climbed to 28 per cent from 22.5 per cent over the same period, while Apple’s iOS comes in third with 26 per cent, up from 22 per cent a year ago.

Asian market

The growth of smartphones and the decline of the PC are two factors credited with the change, but the impact of the Asian market is also a major factor. Android has a 52.2 per cent share of the market there, compared with Windows on 29.2 per cent. That compares with North America and Europe, where Windows remains the top operating system by a sizable margin.This is a milestone in technology history and the end of an era. It marks the end of Microsoft’s leadership worldwide of the OS market which it has held since the 1980s. It also represents a major breakthrough for Android which held just 2.4 per cent of global internet usage share only five years ago.

In the desktop PC and laptop market, Windows still dominates, with an 84 per cent share.Windows won the desktop war but the battlefield moved on said Cullen. It will be difficult for Microsoft to make inroads in mobile but the next paradigm shift might give it the opportunity to regain dominance.StatCounter bases its data on more than 15 billion page views per month to more than 2.5 million websites.

Sources:
http://gs.statcounter.com/press/android-overtakes-windows-for-first-time

Apple is bowing down to windows

Apple this week updated macOS Sierra to version
10.12.5 with more than three dozen security
patches, and a change that lets users install
Microsoft's latest version of Windows 10 on their
Macs.
Sierra 10.12.5 "adds support for media-free
installation of Windows 10 Creators Update using
Boot Camp," the update's brief release notes
read. Creators Update was the name Microsoft
assigned to Windows 10 1703 , the upgrade
issued last month.
Boot Camp, which is baked into macOS, lets Mac
owners run Windows on their machines. A
Windows license is required. Boot Camp, while
not virtualization software like VMware's Fusion
or Parallels International's Parallels Desktop,
serves the same purpose: Running Windows
applications, including custom or mission-critical
corporate software, on a Mac personal computer.
Previously, Mac users were forced onto a
circuitous road to put Windows 10 Creators
Update into Boot Camp. According to a Microsoft
support document published before the upgrade
was released, Mac owners first had to install an
.iso of 2016's Windows 10 Anniversary Update,
aka 1607 , to Boot Camp. Once 1607 was in place,
they could then upgrade Windows 10 to 1703
from within Boot Camp.