Vista drives Windows market share gains
PC World | at | by Mike
For the second time in three months, Windows has boosted its market share, an Internet measuring company reported Monday. The increase by the Microsoft operating system was the largest in over a year, said Net Applications Inc. During October, 90.46% of users who connected to the Web sites that Net Applications monitors did so from systems powered by Windows. The share was up 0.17 percentage points from September, and was the biggest gain since June 2007, when Windows climbed by 0.4 points.Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, failed to grow its share for just the fourth time this year.