Apple's Computer Marketshare Creeps Higher, Windows' Minutely Slides

From DailyTech: Did Windows 7's big release slow down Apple's Mac sales? Not so, says new information from market researchers Net Applications.

Hot off a terrific quarter, there's high expectations on Apple to post terrific growth. Thus it made many of Apple's investors and fans nervous to see a well-received Windows 7 launch October 22 and potentially knocking down Apple's own new fledgling OS, Snow Leopard.

As it turns out, instead Apple inched a bit higher for the month. Perhaps swayed by Apple's latest anti-Windows 7 ads, or the deluge of Windows 7 PCs that come with a surplus of junkware, Apple's marketshare rose from 5.12 percent to 5.26 percent, a marketshare gain of 2.73 percent. While seemingly insignificant, it's slow growth, in the face of adversity, like this that has boosted Apple over the course of recent years to a small but meaningful marketshare. Apple's gains also were likely helped by the release of redesigned iMacs and MacBooks, released on October 20.

Meanwhile, Windows 7 was not enough to prevent Windows from sustaining its ninth straight month of marketshare losses. It however lost very little marketshare, sliding a mere 0.23 percent, down to 92.54 percent from 92.77 percent. According to the report, Windows 7 had gained a 2.85 percent beachhead, which apparently was the result of Windows XP users upgrading, as XP use slid correspondingly.

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