According to January statistics from the Net Applications market research company, the network traffic caused by the Windows 7 system, which was just officially launched in October last year, has reached about 10% of the total traffic. This is the best performance achieved by the Windows 7 operating system in history. As a result, in the past, the average network traffic share of this operating system was 7.51%, and this result has increased by more than 1/3 compared to the share in December last year.
Overall, the market share of Windows operating system is still decreasing. Its market share in January was 92.02%. However, one of its rivals, Mac OSX, only grabbed a small part of the share. Mac OSX’s market share in January was 92.02%. It only increased slightly to 5.13%. The iPhone (market share 0.47%) and Java ME (market share 0.59%) grabbed the most Windows market share. Linux's market share remained at 1.02%, basically no Change.
In addition, Microsoft's share of the browser market also declined in January this year, but this time the loss of IE's market share was mainly due to the Google Chrome browser. IE browser's market share has dropped to an all-time low of 62.18%, while Google Chrome's share rose to 5.2% during the same period. Another browser, Apple Safari, only saw a slight increase in its market share, reaching 4.51%, while Firefox's market share declined, reaching around 24.41%.
Net Applications market research firm did not analyze the reasons for changes in the market share of Microsoft operating systems and browser products. However, we believe that the increase in PC sales during the holidays is one of the main reasons for the increase in its market share, and the increase in Google Chrome's share depends on the launch of the new version of Chrome 4.0.