Windows 8.1 Overtakes Mac OS X 10.9 Among Desktop OS Users
Windows 8 continued to shed its share of traffic in November as more users upgraded to its successor
Windows 8.1 is now the fifth most popular desktop OS, at least as seen by Web tracker Net Applications. For November, Microsoft's latest flavor of Windows snagged 2.64 percent of all desktop OS traffic recorded by Net Applications. That number was a healthy gain from the 1.72 percent seen in October and the 0.87 percent in September. The rise also pushed Windows 8.1 just ahead of Mac OS X 10.9 with a 2.42 percent and just behind Windows Vista with a 3.57 percent share.
Windows 8.1 popped up in June as a preview edition before officially
launching in October. The upgrade is free to Windows 8 users and offers
several improvements over its predecessor.
Windows 8 continued
to shed its share of traffic in November as more users upgraded to its
successor. But combined, Windows 8 and 8.1 took home a 9.3 percent
share, easily outscoring Vista but still playing a distant third to
Windows 7 with 46.6 percent and Windows XP with 31.2 percent.
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