“It will be difficult for Microsoft to make inroads in mobile, but the next paradigm shift might give it the opportunity to regain dominance. “Windows won the desktop war, but the battlefield moved on,” said Cullen.
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Yet in Asia, Android is on 52.2 percent, and Windows is on only 29.2 percent of devices. In Europe, Windows is on 51.7 percent of devices. The iOS platform is next with 25.7 percent usage in North America, followed by 21.2 percent of Android usage. With a 39.5 percent market share in March, Windows is still the most-used platform in North America. Windows still holds the title as the world’s most used operating system on desktops and laptops. That isn’t surprising considering how poorly the Windows Phone platform has been received. iOS had 19.5 percent, while Windows had a measly 1.01 percent. The firm’s analytics shows Android dominating the worldwide mobile OS market share with 71.61 percent in March. Last week, StatCounter reported that mobile internet usage in India was at 79 percent, which was more than double that of the U.S. 75 percent of internet usage came from Linux.Ī hefty chunk of Android users came from locations others than the U.S. StatCounter, which gets its data from 2.5 million websites, ranked iOS as the third most popular OS for getting online with 13.09 percent only.