How long this trend will continue remains to be seen, but as of this writing, there are still many students enrolled in distance learning models. Most districts increased their inventories of inexpensive Chromebooks to help loan equipment to children who might not have their own computers, so last year's numbers might be somewhat skewed. Many schools took advantage of deep discounts offered to educators for Chromebooks. 'Globally, all Chinese brands are growing rapidly, with Xiaomi hitting record volume this quarter with. A clear sign other players in this market have not breached this price segment.' said Nabila Popal, research director with IDCs Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers. Apple’s Mac operating system has been gaining market share. But educational tools in the form of Chromebooks may have superseded home and business use in 2020. In 1Q21, Apple had 72 share of the China >800 segment, with Huawei having 24. Microsoft Windows is the dominating desktop operating system (OS) worldwide as of June 2021, with a share of just under 73 percent.
General PC sales were up thanks to the many who were forced to work from home. However, it is worth noting that 2020 was far from typical as far as PC sales go.
The increase is made more significant considering Mac market share rose from 6.7 percent in 2019 to 7.5 percent in 2020.Īlthough it is still nowhere close to Windows' install base, Chrome's growth from 6.4 percent to 10.8 took a small bite out of Microsoft's hold as its slice of the pie slid from 85.4 percent in 2019 to 80.5 percent last year. Chromebooks have beat out Macs on a quarterly basis in the past, but this is the first time year-end numbers saw the Google-owned OS growth exceed Apple's. However, GeekWire reports that in 2020, Chrome OS slipped ahead, holding 10.8 percent of the market. Macs have held second place in global market share for quite a while. The contest has historically been between macOS, Linux, and, more recently, Chrome OS. For decades, Windows has had a stranglehold on the PC market, and that has not changed. Windows lost nearly five percent of the market, but unsurprisingly still commands the PC landscape.Īccording to numbers from market research firm IDC, Chrome OS overtook macOS for the first time in 2020 in user install base. Following behind is HP with 16.7 million units, 8.5 growth, and a 23.6 market share, but while Dell saw 5.
Last year it increased its user base by 4.4 percent, surpassing Apple's macOS and taking second place in OS market share. PerformanceTest V9 does not support Windows XP.TL DR: The pandemic has apparently been good to Google's Chrome OS. The last version of PerformanceTest to support Windows XP is V8.
With Windows 10 in preliminary release, Microsoft is going to address the users of Windows 7.
I view Vista as being far more successful than 8 because it accomplished what it meant to. Vista paved the way for 7 and 8 paved the way for 10.
Baselines can be submitted from anywhere therefore these are global statistics. Windows 8 was necessary for Windows mobile and tablet devices running on mainline Windows software rather than maintaining 2 OS mainlines.These graphs counts the baselines submitted to us from users of our PerformanceTest software and is therefore is representative of the Windows OS installed on our user's system. But it seems that the sweet success for Windows in the OS market now comes with a pinch of sourness.The other charts are updated on the 15th of every month to give a historical trend of the Windows OS versions installed on PC systems. The change column shows the percentage change from the previous month prior. This first chart is updated daily and gives a daily indication of the Windows Operating System users have installed on their system over the last month. These hardware survey charts are made with over a million PerformanceTest benchmark results.