The share of Windows 7 grows due to the lack of support of XP, and it becomes like this when graphically showing the OS / browser market share of 2014

ByHaron Forteau

Ars Technica graphed the market share of the OS and browser in 2014 when the support of Windows XP which had boasted a market share of 25% or more on April 9, 2014 was terminated and the market share of the OS had changed. It is open to the public.

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OS market share in November 2014 is overwhelming with Windows products 91.28%. Next was Apple's OS X 7.27%. The share by version of Windows which almost monopolizes the share is Windows 7 56.41%, winning the top, the next point Windows XP follows. The result is that few people use Windows 8 or 8.1 than XP.


Graph of the share of OS shares in the last 12 months will gradually fall from Windows XP in February 2014 and will suddenly drop market share in September. On the other hand, the share of Windows 7 / Vista and Windows 8 / 8.1 showed rapid growth in September so as to replace XP.


We have not talked about mobile OS this time, but IT professional research companyIDCAccording to 2014 market share of Android is 82.3%, iOS 13.8%, Windows Phone 2.7%. However, IDC predicts that the market share of Windows Phone will be more than doubled in 2018.


The pie chart below shows the total share of the browser, with Internet Explorer at 48.65% top, then Chrome · Safari · Firefox in turn.


With desktop browser share, IE gained about 60% at 1st place as well as comprehensive. Next followed by 20.57% Chrome, the order of Firefox · Safari. Safari was 12.86% overall, but 5.9% on the desktop.


Looking at the trend over the last 12 months of the desktop browser, you can see that Chrome missed Firefox from March to April 2014, but there is no major change as a whole.


In mobile browser share, Safari is 45.4% and it is the top of the list. Chrome is 21.45%, Android's standard browser is 19.18%, followed by Opera Mini.


The share of the mobile browser in the last 12 months is shown in the graph below. While Safari gradually declined, Chrome gradually rose over the course of a year. Opera Mini, which can reduce the amount of traffic in the data compression mode, sharply increased its market share since March, when the latest version was released.


The next is a graph showing the share by browser version. IE, which was ranked first in overall desktop share, IE 11 is the top, next IE 8 is second. IE 6/7, which was released when XP was at its heydime, decreased its share with XP support discontinuation.


The share by version of Chrome which was ranked second in overall · desktop share is as follows. In Chrome, the overall flow is that users are transitioning to a new version for each new release.


Firefox also has the same share trend as Chrome, so you can see how special IE version share is.