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Usage share of operating systems

January 26, 2023

The usage share of operating systems is the percentage of computing devices that run each operating system (OS) at any particular time. All such figures are necessarily estimates because data about operating system share is difficult to obtain. There are few reliable primary sources and no agreed methodologies for its collection. Operating systems are used in numerous device types, from embedded devices without a screen through to supercomputers.

Most device types that people interact with access the web, so using web access statistics helps compare the usage share of operating systems across most device types, and also the usage share of operating systems used for the same types.

As of November 2022, Android, an operating system using the Linux kernel, is the world's most-used operating system when judged by web use. It has 42% of the global market, followed by Windows with 30%, Apple iOS with 18%, macOS with 6%, then (desktop) Linux at 1.0% also using the Linux kernel.[1][2] These numbers do not include embedded devices or game consoles.

  • For smartphones and other pocket-sized devices, Android leads with 71% market share, and Apple's iOS has 28%.[3]
  • For desktop and laptop computers, Windows is the most used at 76%, followed by Apple's macOS at 16%, and Linux-based operating systems at 5% (i.e. "desktop Linux" at 2.6%, plus Google's ChromeOS at 2.4%, in the US up to 6.2%).[4]
  • For tablets, Apple's iPadOS has 50.7% and Android has 49.18% worldwide[5] (Android is though more used in vast majority of countries;[6] and on occational days Android measures ahead or even, globally[7]).

For the above devices, smartphones and other pocket-sized devices make up 58%, desktops and laptops 40%, and tablets 2.0%.[8] Smartphones have the most use in virtually all countries, including in the US at 51% there with PC operating systems (including Windows) down to 46%.[9][10]

  • Linux has completely dominated the supercomputer field since 2017, with all of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world running a Linux distribution. Linux is also most used for (web) servers, and then most often Ubuntu used, the most common Linux distribution.

The most numerous type of device with an operating system are embedded systems. These use varied operating systems; a high percentage are standalone or do not have a web browser, which makes their usage share difficult to measure. Hypothetically some operating systems used in embedded systems are more popular than the ones mentioned above.

Worldwide device shipments

Device shipments, 2015
Android
 
 54.16%
iOS/macOS
 
 12.37%
Windows
 
 11.79%
Other
 
 21.66%
OS Device Shipments, Gartner[11]

In May 2020, Gartner predicted a decline in all market segments for 2020 (from already declining market in 2019) due to COVID-19, predicting a decline by 13.6% for all devices, while "Work from Home Trend Saved PC Market from Collapse", with them only predicting to decline by 10.5% for PCs. However, in the end according to Gartner, PC shipments grew "10.7% in Fourth Quarter of 2020 and [...] reached 275 million units in 2020, a 4.8% increase from 2019 and the highest growth in ten years." Apple in 4th place for PCs had the largest growth in shipments for a company in Q4 of 31.3%, while "the fourth quarter of 2020 was another remarkable period of growth for Chromebooks, with shipments increasing around 200% year over year to reach 11.7 million units. In 2020, Chromebook shipments increased over 80% to total nearly 30 million units, largely due to demand from the North American education market."[12] Chromebooks sold more than Apple's Macs worldwide.

According to Gartner, the following is the worldwide device shipments (referring to wholesale) by operating system, which includes smartphones, tablets, laptops and PCs together.

Worldwide device shipments by Operating System
Source Year Android iOS/macOS Windows Others
Gartner[13] 2019 (2.161 bln)
Gartner[14] 2017 (2.278 bln)
Gartner[15] 2016 (2.332 bln) 10.63% (248 mln) 11.2% (260 mln)
Gartner[11] 2015 (2.4 bln) 54.16% (1.3 bln) 12.37% (297 mln)

macOS = 1%

11.79% (283 mln) 21.66%
Gartner[16] 2014 48.61% 11.04% 14.0% 26.34%
Gartner[17] 2013 38.51% 10.12% 13.98% 37.41%
Gartner[18] 2012 22.8% 9.6% 15.62% 51.98%

Shipments (to stores) do not mean sales to consumers (not necessarily in the year of shipment), therefore suggesting the numbers indicate popularity and/or usage could be misleading. Not only do smartphones sell in higher numbers than traditional PCs – but also as a whole a lot more, by dollar value – with the gap only projected to widen, to well over double.[19]

For 2015 (and earlier), Gartner reports for "the year, worldwide PC shipments declined for the fourth consecutive year, which started in 2012 with the launch of tablets" with an 8% decline in PC sales for 2015 (not including cumulative decline in sales over the previous years).[20] Gartner includes Macs (running macOS) in PC sales numbers (but not e.g. iPads and Androids), and they individually had a slight increase in sales in 2015.

On 28 May 2015, Google announced that there were 1.4 billion Android users and 1 billion Google play users active during that month.[21][22] This changed to 2 billion monthly active users in May 2017.[23][24]

On 27 January 2016, Paul Thurrott summarized the operating system market, the day after Apple announced "one billion devices":

Apple's "active installed base" is now one billion devices. [..] Granted, some of those Apple devices were probably sold into the market place years ago. But that 1 billion figure can and should be compared to the numbers Microsoft touts for Windows 10 (200 million, most recently) or Windows more generally (1.5 billion active users, a number that hasn’t moved, magically, in years), and that Google touts for Android (over 1.4 billion, as of September). My understanding of iOS is that the user base was previously thought to be around 800 million strong, and when you factor out Macs and other non-iOS Apple devices, that's probably about right. But as you can see, there are three big personal computing platforms.

— Paul Thurrott[25]

Microsoft backed away from their goal of one billion Windows 10 devices in three years (or "by the middle of 2018")[26] and reported on 26 September 2016 that Windows 10 was running on over 400 million devices,[27] and in March 2019 on more than 800 million.[28]

By late 2016, Android had been explained to be "killing" Apple's iOS market share (i.e. its declining sales of smartphones, not just relatively but also by number of units, when the whole market is increasing) with

the gap between the two is growing ever larger all the time.

According to Gartner, Android now boasts a global market share of 86.2 percent. Apple's iOS is a long way behind with a market share of just 12.9 percent. The rest may as well not even exist [..]

These figures, which cover the second quarter of 2016, show that Android has actually increased its market share by 4 percent over the last year. All other operating systems are down, with iOS losing 1.7 percent [..]

I think it's fair to declare Android the winner in the mobile operating [system] wars at this point.

— makeuseof.com[29]

As of 9 May 2019, the biggest smartphone companies (by market share) were Samsung, Huawei and Apple, respectively.[30]

Gartner's own press release said, "Apple continued its downward trend with a decline of 7.7 percent in the second quarter of 2016",[31] which is their decline, based on absolute number of units, that underestimates the relative decline (with the market increasing), along with the misleading "1.7 percent [point]" decline. That point decline means an 11.6% relative decline (from 14.6% down to 12.9%).

Although in units sold Apple is declining, they are almost the only vendor making any profit in the smartphone sector from hardware sales alone. In Q3 2016 for example, they captured 103.6% of the market profits.[32]

There are more mobile phone owners than toothbrush owners,[33] with mobile phones the fastest growing technology in history.[citation needed] There are a billion more active mobile phones in the world than people (and many more than 10 billion sold so far with less than half still in use), explained by the fact that some people have more than one, such as an extra for work.[34] All the phones have an operating system, but only a fraction of them are smartphones with an OS capable of running modern applications. Currently 3.1 billion smartphones and tablets are in use across the world (with tablets, a small fraction of the total, generally running the same operating systems, Android or iOS, the latter being more popular on tablets. In 2019, a variant of iOS called iPadOS built for iPad tablets was released).

Tablet computers shipments

In 2015, eMarketer estimated at the beginning of the year that the tablet installed base would hit one billion[35] for the first time (with China's use at 328 million, which Google Play doesn't serve or track, and the United States's use second at 156 million). At the end of the year, because of cheap tablets – not counted by all analysts – that goal was met (even excluding cumulative sales of previous years) as:

Sales quintupled to an expected 1 billion units worldwide this year, from 216 million units in 2014, according to projections from the Envisioneering Group.

While that number is far higher than the 200-plus million units globally projected by research firms IDC, Gartner and Forrester, Envisioneering analyst Richard Doherty says the rival estimates miss all the cheap Asian knockoff tablets that have been churning off assembly lines.[..]

Forrester says its definition of tablets "is relatively narrow" while IDC says it includes some tablets by Amazon — but not all.[..]

The top tech purchase of the year continued to be the smartphone, with an expected 1.5 billion sold worldwide, according to projections from researcher IDC. Last year saw some 1.2 billion sold.[..]

Computers didn’t fare as well, despite the introduction of Microsoft's latest software upgrade, Windows 10, and the expected but not realized bump it would provide for consumers looking to skip the upgrade and just get a new computer instead.

Some 281 million PCs were expected to be sold, according to IDC, down from 308 million in 2014. Folks tend to be happy with the older computers and keep them for longer, as more of our daily computing activities have moved to the smartphone.[..]

While Windows 10 got good reviews from tech critics, only 11% of the 1-billion-plus Windows user base opted to do the upgrade, according to Microsoft. This suggests Microsoft has a ways to go before the software gets "hit" status. Apple's new operating system El Capitan has been downloaded by 25% of Apple's user base, according to Apple.

— USA Today[36]

This conflicts with statistics from IDC that say the tablet market contracted by 10% in 2015 with only Huawei, ranked fifth, with big gains, more than doubling their share; for fourth quarter 2015, the five biggest vendors were the same except that Amazon Fire tablets ranked third worldwide, new on the list, enabled by its not quite tripling of market share to 7.9%, with its Fire OS Android-derivative.[37]

Global tablet shipments[a]
Source Year Android iOS Windows Others
Strategy Analytics[38] Q2 2022 49% 38% 11% 2%
Statista[39] 2020 59.4% 29.8% 10.21% 0.59%
Strategy Analytics[40] 2015 68% 22% 10% <0.1%
Gartner[41] 2013 61.9% 36.0% 2.1% <0.1%
Gartner[41] 2012 45.8% 52.8% 1.0% 0.3%

Gartner excludes some devices from their tablet shipment statistic and includes them in a different category called "premium ultramobiles" with screen sizes of more than 10" inches.[42]

Smartphone shipments

Worldwide smartphone sales to end users by operating systems, as measured by Gartner, International Data Corporation (IDG) and others:

Smartphone shipments by OS
Source Method Quarter/month Android
(including forks) 		iOS Windows
(all versions) 		BlackBerry
(all versions) 		Symbian Others
Statista[43] based on page views per month worldwide 2022 Q4 71.1% 28.3% N/A N/A N/A 0.6%
Gartner[44] Units sold in quarter 2018 Q1 85.9% 14.1% N/A N/A N/A 0.0%
Gartner[45] Units sold per year 2017 85.9% 14.0% N/A N/A N/A 0.1%
Gartner[46] Units sold in quarter 2017 Q1 86.1% 13.7% N/A N/A N/A 0.2%
Gartner[47] Units sold per year 2016 84.8% 14.4% N/A N/A N/A 0.8%
Gartner[48] Units sold in quarter 2016 Q4 81.7% 17.9% 0.3% 0.0% N/A 0.1%
Gartner[49] Units sold in quarter 2016 Q3 87.8% 11.5% 0.4% 0.1% N/A 0.2%
Gartner[50] Units sold in quarter 2016 Q2 86.2% 12.9% 0.6% 0.1% N/A 0.2%
Gartner[51] Units sold in quarter 2016 Q1 84.1% 14.8% 0.7% 0.2% N/A 0.2%
Gartner[52] Units sold in quarter 2015 Q4 80.7% 17.7% 1.1% 0.2% N/A 0.2%
Gartner[53] Units sold in quarter 2015 Q2 82.2% 14.6% 2.5% 0.3% N/A 0.4%
Gartner[54] Units sold in quarter 2014 Q4 76.0% 20.4% 2.8% 0.5% N/A 0.4%
Strategy Analytics[55] Units shipped in quarter 2014 Q3 81.3% 13.4% 4.1% 1.0% N/A 0.2%
Gartner[56] Units sold in quarter 2014 Q2 83.8% 12.2% 2.8% 0.7% N/A 0.5%
Gartner[57] Units sold in quarter 2013 Q2 79.0% 14.2% 3.3% 2.7% 0.3% 0.6%
Gartner[58] Units sold in quarter 2013 Q1 74.4% 18.2% 2.9% 3.0% 0.6% 1.0%
International Data Corporation[59] Units shipped in quarter 2013 Q1 75.0% 17.3% 3.2% 2.9% 0.6% 0.0%
 

Web clients

Web clients' OS family statistics
Android (or based on)
 
 42.67%
Windows
 
 29.56%
Apple's iOS
 
 17.38%
Apple's macOS
 
 6.07%
Unknown
 
 2.04%
Other
 
 1.25%
Linux
 
 0.98%
Web clients' OS family market share according to StatCounter for April 2022.[60] The information on web clients is obtained from user agent information obtained through JavaScript code run by web browsers supplied to web servers. "Unknown" is probably mostly Windows operating systems.[citation needed] These figures have a large margin of error for a variety of reasons. For a discussion on the shortcomings see usage share of web browsers.

The most recent data from various sources published during the last twelve months is summarized in the table below. All of these sources monitor a substantial number of web sites; statistics related to one web site only are excluded.

Android currently ranks highest,[61] above Windows (incl. Xbox console) systems. Windows Phone accounted for 0.51% of the web usage, before it was discontinued.[62]

Considering all personal computing devices, Microsoft Windows is well below 50% usage share on every continent, and at 30% in the US (24% single-day low) and in many countries lower, e.g. China, and in India at 19% (12% some days) and Windows' lowest share globally was 29% in May 2022 (25% some days), and 29% in the US.[63]

iOS is slightly more popular than Windows in the US, and has been more used the last 6 months, on a monthly average basis,[64] or for up to 11 weeks in a row (weekly average).[65] That's because it's much more popular on the weekends, while Windows usually more used on weekdays. iOS has however been more used for up to almost 2 weeks, every day of that time-span, and even on some days, such as 29 May 2022, Android is also more used than Windows meaning iOS and Android are up to 2.6× more used than Windows there.[66] Worldwide, Android at 43.23% is 48% more used than Windows, next at 29.2%, and iOS third at 17.67% meaning the mobile operating systems Android and iOS are combined a bit over 2× more popular then Windows. In Africa, Android at 62.66% (for May alone is 3.3× (almost 4× with iOS) than Windows at 18.81 (and iOS third at 10.74%).[67] For a 12-month average Android is only 2.1× more popular than Windows in Africa.

Before iOS became the most popular operating system in any independent country, it was most popular in Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States, for four consecutive quarters in 2017-18,[68][69] although Android is now the most popular there.[70] iOS has been the highest ranked OS in Jersey (a British Crown dependency in Europe) for years, by a wide margin, and iOS was also highest ranked in Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory, for one quarter in 2019, before being overtaken by Android in the following quarter.[71][72] iOS is competitive with Windows in Sweden, where some days it is more used.[73]

The designation of an "Unknown" operating system is strangely high in a few countries such as Madagascar where it was at 32.44% (no longer near as high).[74] This may be due to the fact that StatCounter uses browser detection to get OS statistics, and there the most common browsers are not often used. The version breakdown for browsers in Madagascar shows "Other" at 34.9%,[75] and Opera Mini 4.4 is the most popular known browser at 22.1% (plus e.g. 3.34% for Opera 7.6). However browser statistics without version-breakdown has Opera at 48.11% with the "Other" category very small.[76][clarification needed]

In China, Android got to be the highest ranked operating system in July 2016 (Windows has occasionally topped it since then, while since April 2016 it or all non-mobile operating systems haven't outranked mobile operating systems, meaning Android plus iOS).[77] In the Asian continent as a whole, Android has been ranked highest since February 2016 and Android alone has the majority share,[78] because of a large majority in all the most populous countries of the continent, up to 84% in Bangladesh, where it has had over 70% share for over four years.[79] Since August 2015, Android is ranked first, at 48.36% in May 2016, in the African continent – when it took a big jump ahead of Windows 7,[80] and thereby Africa joined Asia as a mobile-majority continent. China is no longer a desktop-majority country,[81] joining India, which has a mobile-majority of 71%, confirming Asia's significant mobile-majority.

Online usage of Linux kernel derivatives (Android + ChromeOS + other Linux) exceeds that of Windows. This has been true since some time between January and April 2016, according to W3Counter[82] and StatCounter.[83] However, even before that, the figure for all Unix-like OSes, including those from Apple, was higher than that for Windows.

Source Date Microsoft Windows (kernel):   Apple Darwin:
 		 Linux kernel:   Others:[b]
10 8/8.1 7 Vista XP WP&RT Other macOS iOS Linux Android Other
W3Counter[84] Oct 2022   19.23% N/A   3.4% N/A N/A N/A N/A   4.03%   19.23% N/A   45.18% N/A N/A
W3Counter[85] Oct

2020

 

20.55%

N/A  

6.74%

N/A N/A N/A N/A  

8.06%

 

13.67%

N/A  

37.44%

N/A N/A
W3Counter[86] Jun 2019  16.23% N/A  14.32% N/A N/A N/A N/A  3.58%  13.54 N/A  38.76% N/A N/A
W3Counter[86] Jun 2018  11.14 N/A  12.29% N/A N/A N/A N/A  2.80%  10.68% N/A  53.21% N/A N/A
W3Counter[87] Dec 2016  13.79  4.54%  18.45% N/A N/A N/A N/A  4.45%  12.60%  3.8%  34.37% N/A  8%
StatCounter Global Stats[88] Mar 2017  12.98%  4.57%  17.84%  0.41%  2.07% 0%  0.06%  5.17%  13.09%  0.75%  37.93%  0.76%  7.21%
StatCounter Global Stats[88] Dec 2016  12.5%  4.79%  18%  0.46%  2.24%  0.64%  0.09%  4.92%  12.71%  0.86%  37.8%  0.72%  4.61%
StatCounter Global Stats[89] Oct 2016  12.08%  5.21%  18.97%  0.6%  2.44%  0.7%  0.05%  5.3%  12.04%  0.85%  34.46%  0.63%  6.67%
StatCounter Global Stats[90] May 2016  10.27%  6.68%  22.25%  0.73%  3.44%  0.83%  0.8%  5.05%  11.38%  0.91%  31.6%  0.64%  6.15%
StatCounter Global Stats[90] Dec 2015  6.67%  8.5%  26.66%  1.0%  4.75%  0.92%  0.2%  5.51%  10.82%  1.03%  27.01%  0.36%  6.57%
Wikimedia[91] Dec 2016 14.0% 4.65% 18.0% 0.43% 1.70% 0.93% 0.50% 5.4% 19.0% 0.80% 23.0% 0.30% 11.29%


Desktop and laptop computers

Desktop/Laptop operating system browsing statistics
Windows
 
 74.83%
macOS
 
 15.37%
Unknown
 
 4.93%
Linux
 
 2.48%
ChromeOS
 
 2.38%
FreeBSD
 
 0.01%
Desktop OS market share according to StatCounter for April 2022.[92] ChromeOS is also based on the Linux kernel.

Windows is still the dominant desktop OS, but the dominance varies by region and it has gradually lost market share to other desktop operating systems (not just to mobile) with the slide very noticeable in the US, where macOS usage has more than quadrupled from Jan. 2009 to Dec. 2020 to 30.62% (i.e. in Christmas month; and 34.72% in April 2020 in the middle of COVID-19, and iOS was more popular overall that year;[93] globally Windows lost to Android that year,[94] as for the two years prior), with Windows down to 61.136% and ChromeOS at 5.46%, plus traditional Linux at 1.73%.[95]

There is little openly published information on the device shipments of desktop and laptop computers. Gartner publishes estimates, but the way the estimates are calculated is not openly published. Another source of market share of various operating systems is StatCounter[96] basing its estimate on web use (although this may not be very accurate). Also, sales may overstate usage. Most computers are sold with a pre-installed operating system, with some users replacing that OS with a different one due to personal preference, or installing another OS alongside it and using both. Conversely, sales underestimate usage by not counting unauthorized copies. For example, in 2009, approximately 80% of software sold in China consisted of illegitimate copies.[97] In 2007, the statistics from an automated update of IE7 for registered Windows computers differed with the observed web browser share, leading one writer to estimate that 25–35% of all Windows XP installations were unlicensed.[98]

The usage share of Microsoft's (then latest operating system) Windows 10 has slowly increased since July/August 2016, reaching around 27.15% (of all Windows versions, not all desktop or all operating systems) in December 2016. It eventually reached 79.79% on 5 October 2021, the same day on which its successor Windows 11 was released.

Web analysis shows significant variation in different parts of the world. For example, macOS use varies a lot by region, in North America claims 16.82%[99] (17.52%[100] in the US) whereas in Asia it is only 4.4%.[101] In the United States usage of Windows XP has dropped to 0.38% (of all Windows versions), and its global average to 0.59%, while in Africa it is still at 2.71%, and it still has double-digit share in at least one country.[102]

Since mid-2020, the world uses smartphones more than desktop (including laptop) computers.[103][104][105] For global statistics it's every day of the week. It has also happened for all individual continents (at least for some weeks, and also for the United States[106][107][108][109] where the smartphone share has gone up to 54%, both on July 9, 2019, a Sunday,[110] and also that high in 2021). The proportions do vary widely by region (more so than by the day), e.g. in Africa the smartphone share is highest at 69%, in Asia at 65% and in South America at 50.19%, while in the United States it's at 46% and desktop at 50%. On some continents, e.g. North America and the US, smartphone use may only go over 50% on weekends, since smartphones usage increases on weekends,[111][112][113][114] while the smartphone share has gone up to 54% for a single day (Thanksgiving), and on average over 50% for full week.[115][116]

  Smartphones (58.01%)
  Desktops/Laptops (39.49%)
  Tablets (2.46%)
  Console (0.06%)

The 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey provides no detail about particular versions of Windows. The desktop operating system share among those identifying as professional developers was:[117]

  • Windows: 45.3%
  • macOS: 29.2%
  • Linux: 25.3%
  • BSD/Unix: 0.1%

Microsoft data on Windows usage

In June 2016, Microsoft claimed Windows 10 had half the market share of all Windows installations in the US and UK, as quoted by BetaNews:

Microsoft's Windows trends page [shows] Windows 10 hit 50 percent in the US (51 percent in the UK, 39 percent globally), while ... Windows 7 was on 38 percent (36 percent in the UK, 46 percent globally). A big reason for the difference in numbers comes down to how they are recorded. ... actual OS usage (based on web browsing), while Microsoft records the number of devices Windows 10 is installed on. ... Microsoft also only records Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, while NetMarketShare includes both XP and Vista.

— BetaNews[118]

Desktop computer games

The digital video game distribution platform Steam publishes a monthly "Hardware & Software Survey", with the statistics below:

Month Microsoft Windows Mac OS† Linux† Other
December 2021 96.19% 2.70% 1.11%
December 2020[119] 96.41% 2.82% 0.78%
December 2019[120] 96.89% 2.47% 0.67%
January 2019[121] 95.92% 3.27% 0.82%
January 2018[122] 98.38% 1.31% 0.25%
January 2017[123] 95.79% 3.31% 0.80%
January 2016[124] 95.39% 3.55% 0.95%
January 2015[125] 95.48% 3.32% 1.09%
January 2014[126] 94.93% 3.47% 0.86% 0.74%

^† These figures, as reported by Steam, do not include SteamOS statistics.[127]

Mobile devices

Smartphones OS by usage

See also: Mobile operating system § Market share
 
Android is the most popular mobile operating system.

By Q1 2018, mobile operating systems on smartphones included Google's dominant Android (and variants) and Apple's iOS which combined had an almost 100% market share.[128]

Smartphone penetration vs. desktop use differs substantially by country. Some countries, like Russia, still have smartphone use as low as 22.35% (as a fraction of all web use),[129] but in most western countries, smartphone use is close to 50% of all web use. This doesn't mean that only half of the population has a smartphone, could mean almost all have, just that other platforms have about equal use. Smartphone usage share in developing countries is much higher – in Bangladesh, for example, Android smartphones had up to 84% and currently 70% share,[79] and in Mali smartphones had over 90% (up to 95%) share for almost two years.[130][131] (A section below has more information on regional trends on the move to smartphones.)

There is a clear correlation between the GDP per capita of a country and that country's respective smartphone OS market share, with users in the richest countries being much more likely to choose Apple's iPhone, with Google's Android being predominant elsewhere.[132][133][134]

Global mobile OS web usage[c]
Source Method Quarter/month Android
(including forks) 		iOS Windows
(all versions) 		BlackBerry
(all versions) 		Symbian Others
StatCounter Global Stats[135] Browsing (page view) 2021, Oct 71.09% 28.21% 0.01% N/A N/A 0.69%
StatCounter Global Stats[136] Browsing (page view) 2020, Oct 72.93% 26.53% 0.03% N/A N/A 0.51%
StatCounter Global Stats Browsing (page view) 2019, Sep 76.24% 22.48% 0.17% 0.02% 0.02% 1.07%
StatCounter Global Stats[137] Browsing (page view) 2015, Mar 61.94% 22.64% 2.27% NA 6.00% 7.09%
StatCounter Global Stats[137] Browsing (page view) 2014, Aug 54.87% 23.57% 2.36% 1.59% 9.73% 7.87%
StatCounter Global Stats[137] Browsing (page view) 2014, Feb 47.57% 22.97% 2.22% 2.62% 14.86% 6.08%
Wikimedia (includes tablets)[d] Browsing (page view) 2013, Mar 25.93% 66.53% 1.85% 2.02% 3.03% 1.12%
United States mobile OS web usage
Source Method Quarter/month Android
(including forks) 		iOS Windows
(all versions) 		BlackBerry
(all versions) 		Symbian Others
comScore[138] (US only) US subscribers 2017, Jan 52.0% 43.9% 1.5% 0.5% N/A N/A
comScore[139] (US only) US subscribers 2016, Jan 52.8% 43.6% 2.7% 0.8% N/A N/A
comScore[140] (US only) US subscribers 2015, Jan 53.2% 41.3% 3.6% 1.8% 0.1% N/A
comScore[141] (US only) US subscribers 2014, Jan 51.7% 41.6% 3.2% 3.1% 0.2% N/A
comScore[142] (US only) US subscribers 2012, Feb 50.1% 30.2% 3.9% 13.4% 1.5% N/A
comScore[143] (US only) US subscribers 2010, Dec 28.7% 25.0% 8.4% 31.6% N/A 3.7%

Tablet computers OS by usage

Tablet computers, or simply tablets, became a significant OS market share category starting with Apple's iPad. In Q1 2018, iOS had 65.03% market share and Android had 34.58% market share.[144] Windows tablets may not get classified as such by some analysts, and thus barely register; e.g. 2-in-1 PCs may get classified as "desktops", not tablets.

Since 2016, in South America (and Cuba[145] in North America), Android tablets have gained majority,[146] and in Asia in 2017 Android was slightly more popular than the iPad, which was at 49.05% usage share in October 2015.[147][148][149] In Africa, Android tablets are much more popular while elsewhere the iPad has a safe margin.

As of March 2015, Android has made steady gains to becoming the most popular tablet operating system:[150] that is the trend in many countries, having already gained the majority in large countries (India at 63.25%,[151] and in Indonesia at 62.22%[152]) and in the African continent with Android at 62.22% (first to gain Android majority in late 2014),[153] with steady gains from 20.98% in August 2012[154] (Egypt at 62.37%,[155] Zimbabwe at 62.04%[155]), and South America at 51.09% in July 2015.[156] (Peru at 52.96%[157]). Asia is at 46%.[158] In Nepal, Android gained majority lead in November 2014 but lost it down to 41.35% with iOS at 56.51%.[159] In Taiwan, as of October 2016, Android after having gained a confident majority, has been on a losing streak.[160] China is a major exception to Android gaining market share in Asia (there Android phablets are much more popular than Android tablets, while similar devices get classified as smartphones) where the iPad/iOS is at 82.84% in March 2015.[161]

Global tablet web usage
Source Month iOS Android Windows Others
StatCounter[162] Oct 2020 58.86% 41.02% 0.08% 0.04%
StatCounter[163] Dec 2019 63.11% 36.65% 0.15% 0.09%
StatCounter[164] Jul 2018 65.03% 34.58% 0.21% 0.18%
StatCounter[165] Jul 2015 65.51% 31.36% 0.78% 2.93%
StatCounter[166] Feb 2015 66.47% 29.6% 1.16% 2.73%
StatCounter[167] Oct 2014 71.67% 25.62% 0.08% 2.63%

Crossover to smartphones having majority share

See also: Usage share of web browsers § Crossover to smartphones having majority share

According to StatCounter web use statistics (a proxy for all use), smartphones are more popular than desktop computers globally (and Android in particular more popular than Windows). Including tablets with mobiles/smartphones, as they also run so-called mobile operating systems, even in the United States (and most countries) are mobiles including tablets more popular than other (older originally made for desktops) operating systems (such as Windows and macOS). Windows in the US (at 33.42%) has only 8% head-start (2.55-percentage points) over iOS only; with Android, that mobile operating system and iOS have 52.14% majority.[168] Alternatively, Apple, with iOS plus their non-mobile macOS (9.33%) has 20% more share (6.7-percentage points more) than Microsoft's Windows in the country where both companies were built.

Although desktop computers are still popular in many countries (while overall down to 44.9% in the first quarter of 2017[169]), smartphones are more popular even in many developed countries. A few countries on all continents are desktop-minority with Android more popular than Windows; many, e.g. Poland in Europe, and about half of the countries in South America, and many in North America, e.g. Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti; up to most countries in Asia and Africa[170] with smartphone-majority because of Android, Poland and Turkey in Europe highest with 57.68% and 62.33%, respectively. In Ireland, smartphone use at 45.55% outnumbers desktop use and mobile as a whole gains majority when including the tablet share at 9.12%.[171][172] Spain was also slightly desktop-minority. As of July 2019, Sweden had been desktop-minority for eight weeks in a row.[173]

The range of measured mobile web use varies a lot by country, and a StatCounter press release recognizes "India amongst world leaders in use of mobile to surf the internet"[174] (of the big countries) where the share is around (or over) 80%[175] and desktop is at 19.56%, with Russia trailing with 17.8% mobile use (and desktop the rest).

Smartphones (discounting tablets), first gained majority in December 2016 (desktop-majority was lost the month before),[where?] and it wasn't a Christmas-time fluke, as while close to majority after smartphone majority happened again in March 2017.[176][clarification needed]

In the week of 7–13 November 2016, smartphones alone (without tablets) overtook desktop for the first time, albeit for a short period.[177] Examples of mobile-majority countries include Paraguay in South America, Poland in Europe and Turkey and most of Asia and Africa. Some of the world is still desktop-majority, with for example the United States at 54.89% (but not on all days).[178] However, in some territories of the United States, such as Puerto Rico,[179] desktop is significantly under majority, with Windows just under 25%, overtaken by Android.

On 22 October 2016 (and subsequent weekends), mobile showed majority.[180] Since 27 October, the desktop hasn't had a majority, including on weekdays. Smartphones alone have showed majority since 23 December to the end of the year, with the share topping at 58.22% on Christmas Day.[181] To the "mobile"-majority share of smartphones, tablets could be added giving a 63.22% majority. While an unusually high top, a similar high also occurred on Monday 17 April 2017, with the smartphone share slightly lower and tablet share slightly higher, combining to 62.88%.

Formerly, according to a StatCounter press release, the world has turned desktop-minority;[182] as of October 2016, at about 49% desktop use for that month, but mobile wasn't ranked higher, tablet share had to be added to it to exceed desktop share.

For the Christmas season (i.e. temporarily, while desktop-minority remains and smartphone-majority on weekends[183][184]), the last two weeks in December 2016, Australia (and Oceania in general)[185] was desktop-minority for the first time for an extended period, i.e. every day from 23 December.[186]

In South America, smartphones alone took majority from desktops on Christmas Day,[184] but for a full-week-average, desktop is still at least at 58%.[187]

The UK desktop-minority dropped down to 44.02% on Christmas Day and for the eight days to the end of the year.[188] Ireland joined some other European countries with smartphone-majority, for three days after Christmas, topping that day at 55.39%.[189][190]

In the US, desktop-minority happened for three days on and around Christmas (while a longer four-day stretch happened in November, and happens frequently on weekends).[191]

According to StatCounter web use statistics (a proxy for all use), in the week from 7–13 November 2016, "mobile" (meaning smartphones) alone (without tablets) overtook desktop, for the first time, with them highest ranked at 52.13% (on 27 November 2016)[192] or up to 49.02% for a full week.[193][194] Mobile-majority applies to countries such as Paraguay in South America, Poland in Europe and Turkey; and the continents Asia and Africa. Large regions of the rest of the world are still desktop-majority, while on some days, the United States,[195] (and North America as a whole)[196] isn't; the US is desktop-minority up to four days in a row,[197] and up to a five-day average.[198] Other examples, of desktop-minority on some days, include the UK,[196] Ireland,[199] Australia[200] (and Oceania as a whole); in fact, at least one country on every continent[201][202][203] has turned desktop-minority (for at least a month). On 22 October 2016 (and subsequent weekends), mobile has shown majority.[204]

Previously, according to a StatCounter press release, the world has turned desktop-minority;[205] as of October 2016, at about 49% desktop use for that month,[206][207] with desktop-minority stretching up to an 18-weeks/4-months period from 28 June to 31 October 2016,[208][209] while whole of July, August or September 2016, showed desktop-majority (and many other long sub-periods in the long stretch showed desktop-minority; similarly only Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are desktop-minority). The biggest continents, Asia and Africa, have shown vast mobile-majority for long time (any day of the week), as well as several individual countries elsewhere have also turned mobile-majority: Poland, Albania (and Turkey)[210] in Europe and Paraguay and Bolivia[211] in South America.[212]

According to StatCounter's web use statistics, Saturday 28 May 2016, was the day when smartphones ("mobile" at StatCounter, that now counts tablets separately) became a most used platform, ranking first, at 47.27%, above desktops.[213][214] The next day, desktops slightly outnumbered "mobile" (unless counting tablets: some analysts count tablets with smartphones or separately while others with desktops – even when most tablets are iPad or Android, not Windows devices).[215]

Since Sunday 27 March 2016, the first day the world dipped to desktop-minority,[216] it has happened almost every week, and by week of 11–17 July 2016, the world was desktop-minority,[217] followed by the next week, and thereon also for a three-week period.[218] The trend is still stronger on weekends, with e.g. 17 July 2016 showed desktop at 44.67%, "mobile" at 49.5% plus tablets at 5.7%.[219] Recent weekly data shows a downward trend for desktops.[220][221]

According to StatCounter web use statistics (a proxy for overall use), on weekends desktops worldwide lose about 5 percent points, e.g. down to 51.46% on 15 August 2015, with the loss in (relative) web use going to mobile (and also a minuscule increase for tablets),[222] mostly because Windows 7, ranked 1st on workdays, declines in web use, with it shifting to Android and lesser degree to iOS.[223]

Two continents, have already crossed over to mobile-majority (because of Android), based on StatCounters web use statistics. In June 2015, Asia became the first continent where mobile overtook desktop[224] (followed by Africa in August;[225] while Nigeria had mobile majority in October 2011,[226][227] because of Symbian – that later had 51% share, then Series 40 dominating, followed by Android as dominating operating system[228]) and as far back as October 2014, they had reported this trend on a large scale in a press release: "Mobile usage has already overtaken desktop in several countries including India, South Africa and Saudi Arabia".[229] In India, desktop went from majority, in July 2012, down to 32%.[230] In Bangladesh desktop went from majority, in May 2013, down to 17%, with Android alone now accounting for majority web use.[231] Only a few African countries were still desktop-majority[232] and many have a large mobile majority including Ethiopia and Kenya, where mobile usage is over 72%.[233]

The popularity of mobile use worldwide has been driven by the huge popularity increase of Android in Asian countries, where Android is the highest ranked operating system statistically in virtually every south-east Asian country,[234] while it also ranks most popular in almost every African country. Poland has been desktop-minority since April 2015,[235] because of Android being vastly more popular there,[236] and other European countries, such as Albania (and Turkey), have also crossed over. The South America continent is somewhat far from losing desktop-majority, but Paraguay had lost it as of March 2015.[237] Android and mobile browsing in general has also become hugely popular in all other continents where desktop has a large desktop base and the trend to mobile is not as clear as a fraction of the total web use.

While some analysts count tablets with desktops (as some of them run Windows), others count them with mobile phones (as the vast majority of tablets run so-called mobile operating systems, such as Android or iOS on the iPad). iPad has a clear lead globally, but has clearly lost the majority to Android in South America,[238] and a number of Eastern European countries such as Poland; lost virtually all African countries and has lost the majority twice in Asia, but gained the majority back (while many individual countries, e.g. India and most of the middle East have clear Android majority on tablets).[239] Android on tablets is thus second most popular after the iPad.[240]

In March 2015, for the first time in the US the number of mobile-only adult internet users exceeded the number of desktop-only internet users with 11.6% of the digital population only using mobile compared to 10.6% only using desktop; this also means the majority, 78%, use both desktop and mobile to access the internet.[241] A few smaller countries in North America, such as Haiti (because of Android) have gone mobile majority (mobile went to up to 72.35%, and is at 64.43% in February 2016).[242]

Revenue

The region with the largest Android usage[61] also has the largest mobile revenue.[243]

Mobile app revenue (US$bn)
2020[244]
Asia Pacific $85.3B
North and South America $74.5B
Europe, Middle East, and Africa $29.1B

Public servers on the Internet

Internet based servers' market share can be measured with statistical surveys of publicly accessible servers, such as web servers, mail servers[245] or DNS servers on the Internet: the operating systems powering such servers are found by inspecting raw response messages. This method gives insight only into market share of operating systems that are publicly accessible on the Internet.

There will be differences in the result depending on how the sample is done and observations weighted. Usually the surveys are not based on a random sample of all IP addresses, domain names, hosts or organisations, but on servers found by some other method.[citation needed] Additionally, many domains and IP addresses may be served by one host and some domains may be served by several hosts or by one host with several IP addresses.

Source Date Unix, Unix-like Microsoft Windows References
W3Techs 14 July 2022 80.1% 20.1% [246][247]
Security Space Feb 2014 <79.3% >20.7% [248][249]
Note
W3Techs checked the top ten million web servers daily from June 2013, but W3Techs's definition of "website" differs a bit from Alexa's definition; the "top 10 million" websites are actually fewer than 10 million. W3Techs claims that these differences "have no statistical significance".[250]
Note
Revenue comparisons often include "operating system software, other bundled software"[251] and are not appropriate for usage comparison as the Linux operating system costs nothing (including "other bundled software"), except if optionally using commercial distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (in that case, cost of software for all software bundled with hardware has to be known for all operating systems involved, and subtracted). In cases where no-cost Linux is used, such comparisons underestimate Linux server popularity and overestimate other proprietary operating systems such as Unix and Windows.

Mainframes

 
IBM's System z10

Mainframes are larger and more powerful than servers, but not supercomputers. They are used to process large sets of data, for example enterprise resource planning or credit card transactions.

The most common operating system for mainframes is IBM's z/OS.[citation needed] Operating systems for IBM Z generation hardware include IBM's proprietary z/OS,[252] Linux on IBM Z, z/TPF, z/VSE and z/VM.

Gartner reported on 23 December 2008, that Linux on System z was used on approximately 28% of the "customer z base" and that they expected this to increase to over 50% in the following five years.[253] Of Linux on IBM Z, Red Hat and Micro Focus compete to sell RHEL and SLES respectively:

  • Prior to 2006, Novell claimed a market share of 85% or more for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
  • Red Hat has since claimed 18.4% in 2007 and 37% in 2008.[254]
  • Gartner reported at the end of 2008 that Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server had an 80% share of mainframe Linux.[253][dead link]

Decline

Like today's trend of mobile devices from personal computers,[241] in 1984 for the first time estimated sales of desktop computers ($11.6 billion) exceeded mainframe computers ($11.4 billion). IBM received the vast majority of mainframe revenue.[255]

From 1991 to 1996, AT&T Corporation briefly owned NCR, one of the major original mainframe producers. During the same period, companies found that servers based on microcomputer designs could be deployed at a fraction of the acquisition price and offer local users much greater control over their own systems given the IT policies and practices at that time. Terminals used for interacting with mainframe systems were gradually replaced by personal computers. Consequently, demand plummeted and new mainframe installations were restricted mainly to financial services and government. In the early 1990s, there was a rough consensus among industry analysts that the mainframe was a dying market as mainframe platforms were increasingly replaced by personal computer networks.[256]

In 2012, NASA powered down its last mainframe, an IBM System z9.[257] However, IBM's successor to the z9, the z10, led a New York Times reporter to state four years earlier that "mainframe technology—hardware, software and services—remains a large and lucrative business for IBM, and mainframes are still the back-office engines behind the world's financial markets and much of global commerce".[258] As of 2010, while mainframe technology represented less than 3% of IBM's revenues, it "continue[d] to play an outsized role in Big Blue's results".[259]

Supercomputers

 
Sierra helps to assure the safety, reliability and effectiveness of the United States' nuclear weapons.

The TOP500 project lists and ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers for which benchmark results are submitted. Since the early 1990s, the field of supercomputers has been dominated by Unix or Unix-like operating systems, and starting in 2017, every top 500 fastest supercomputer uses Linux as its supercomputer operating system.

The last supercomputer to rank #1 while using an operating system other than Linux was ASCI White, which ran AIX. It held the title from November 2000 to November 2001,[260] and was decommissioned in 2006. Then in June 2017, two AIX computers held rank 493 and 494,[261] the last non-Linux systems before they dropped off the list.

 
Supercomputer OS family – 1993–2021 systems share according to TOP500[262]

Historically all kinds of Unix operating systems dominated, and in the end ultimately Linux remains.

Market share by category

Category Source Date Linux UNIX and Unix-like (not incl. Linux) Windows In‑house Other
Desktop, laptop Net Applications[263] Apr 2020 2.87% (excl. ChromeOS) plus 0.4% ChromeOS 9.75% (macOS) 86.92% (all versions) 0.06%
Embedded[e] EE Times[264] Mar 2019 38.42% (embedded Linux, Ubuntu, Android, other) 2.82% (QNX, LynxOS) 10.73% (Windows 10, Windows Embedded Compact) 10.73% 37.30%
Mainframe Gartner[254] Dec 2008 28% (SLES, RHEL) 72% (z/OS)[f]
Server (web) W3Techs[265] Sep 2021 Likely 77.4% (39.8% confirmed)[g] (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Gentoo, RHEL, ...)[266] Less than 1% is confirmed to be UNIX or Unix-like and non-Linux. The top operating systems in order are: 0.3% BSD (97.8% of which is FreeBSD),[267] <0.1% Darwin,[268] <0.1% HP-UX,[269] <0.1% Solaris,[270] and <0.1% Minix.[271][g] 22.7% (Windows Server 2019, WS2016, WS2012, WS2008)
Microsoft's own webserver runs 6.6% of websites.[272]
Smartphone, tablet StatCounter Global Stats[273] Apr 2020 70.80% (Android, KaiOS) 28.79% (iOS) 0.07% 0.34%
Supercomputer TOP500[274] Nov 2019 100% (Custom)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Shipments refer to sell-in", that is, wholesale.
  2. ^ The 'Others' column is obtained by summing all percentage data and subtracting from 100%.
  3. ^ Table is only showing mobile OS market share – not the overall market share.
  4. ^ Wikimedia Foundation statistics consider tablets as part of the mobile OS market share.
  5. ^ Embedded is a vast category, which has subcategories that include automotive, avionics, health, medical equipment, consumer electronics, intelligent homes, and telecommunications. The aggregated information above may be very different for each subcategory taken separately.
  6. ^ z/OS's UNIX environment coexists with its native environment, which dates back to OS/360.
  7. ^ a b "UNIX and Unix-like (including Linux)" represents 77.4% of the total web server/website market share however 48.2% of that market share does not show "more specifically" which operating system.

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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia s quality standards The specific problem is the article has many confusing and poorly worded sentences Please help improve this article if you can November 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article may be confusing or unclear to readers Please help clarify the article There might be a discussion about this on the talk page May 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message The usage share of operating systems is the percentage of computing devices that run each operating system OS at any particular time All such figures are necessarily estimates because data about operating system share is difficult to obtain There are few reliable primary sources and no agreed methodologies for its collection Operating systems are used in numerous device types from embedded devices without a screen through to supercomputers Most device types that people interact with access the web so using web access statistics helps compare the usage share of operating systems across most device types and also the usage share of operating systems used for the same types As of November 2022 update Android an operating system using the Linux kernel is the world s most used operating system when judged by web use It has 42 of the global market followed by Windows with 30 Apple iOS with 18 macOS with 6 then desktop Linux at 1 0 also using the Linux kernel 1 2 These numbers do not include embedded devices or game consoles For smartphones and other pocket sized devices Android leads with 71 market share and Apple s iOS has 28 3 For desktop and laptop computers Windows is the most used at 76 followed by Apple s macOS at 16 and Linux based operating systems at 5 i e desktop Linux at 2 6 plus Google s ChromeOS at 2 4 in the US up to 6 2 4 For tablets Apple s iPadOS has 50 7 and Android has 49 18 worldwide 5 Android is though more used in vast majority of countries 6 and on occational days Android measures ahead or even globally 7 For the above devices smartphones and other pocket sized devices make up 58 desktops and laptops 40 and tablets 2 0 8 Smartphones have the most use in virtually all countries including in the US at 51 there with PC operating systems including Windows down to 46 9 10 Linux has completely dominated the supercomputer field since 2017 with all of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world running a Linux distribution Linux is also most used for web servers and then most often Ubuntu used the most common Linux distribution The most numerous type of device with an operating system are embedded systems These use varied operating systems a high percentage are standalone or do not have a web browser which makes their usage share difficult to measure Hypothetically some operating systems used in embedded systems are more popular than the ones mentioned above Contents 1 Worldwide device shipments 1 1 Tablet computers shipments 1 2 Smartphone shipments 2 Web clients 3 Desktop and laptop computers 3 1 Microsoft data on Windows usage 3 2 Desktop computer games 4 Mobile devices 4 1 Smartphones OS by usage 4 2 Tablet computers OS by usage 4 3 Crossover to smartphones having majority share 4 4 Revenue 5 Public servers on the Internet 6 Mainframes 6 1 Decline 7 Supercomputers 8 Market share by category 9 See also 10 Notes 11 ReferencesWorldwide device shipments EditThis section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information Last update Recent statistics from 2018 is needed for this section August 2018 Device shipments 2015Android 54 16 iOS macOS 12 37 Windows 11 79 Other 21 66 OS Device Shipments Gartner 11 In May 2020 Gartner predicted a decline in all market segments for 2020 from already declining market in 2019 due to COVID 19 predicting a decline by 13 6 for all devices while Work from Home Trend Saved PC Market from Collapse with them only predicting to decline by 10 5 for PCs However in the end according to Gartner PC shipments grew 10 7 in Fourth Quarter of 2020 and reached 275 million units in 2020 a 4 8 increase from 2019 and the highest growth in ten years Apple in 4th place for PCs had the largest growth in shipments for a company in Q4 of 31 3 while the fourth quarter of 2020 was another remarkable period of growth for Chromebooks with shipments increasing around 200 year over year to reach 11 7 million units In 2020 Chromebook shipments increased over 80 to total nearly 30 million units largely due to demand from the North American education market 12 Chromebooks sold more than Apple s Macs worldwide According to Gartner the following is the worldwide device shipments referring to wholesale by operating system which includes smartphones tablets laptops and PCs together Worldwide device shipments by Operating System Source Year Android iOS macOS Windows OthersGartner 13 2019 2 161 bln Gartner 14 2017 2 278 bln Gartner 15 2016 2 332 bln 10 63 248 mln 11 2 260 mln Gartner 11 2015 2 4 bln 54 16 1 3 bln 12 37 297 mln macOS 1 11 79 283 mln 21 66 Gartner 16 2014 48 61 11 04 14 0 26 34 Gartner 17 2013 38 51 10 12 13 98 37 41 Gartner 18 2012 22 8 9 6 15 62 51 98 Shipments to stores do not mean sales to consumers not necessarily in the year of shipment therefore suggesting the numbers indicate popularity and or usage could be misleading Not only do smartphones sell in higher numbers than traditional PCs but also as a whole a lot more by dollar value with the gap only projected to widen to well over double 19 For 2015 and earlier Gartner reports for the year worldwide PC shipments declined for the fourth consecutive year which started in 2012 with the launch of tablets with an 8 decline in PC sales for 2015 not including cumulative decline in sales over the previous years 20 Gartner includes Macs running macOS in PC sales numbers but not e g iPads and Androids and they individually had a slight increase in sales in 2015 On 28 May 2015 Google announced that there were 1 4 billion Android users and 1 billion Google play users active during that month 21 22 This changed to 2 billion monthly active users in May 2017 23 24 On 27 January 2016 Paul Thurrott summarized the operating system market the day after Apple announced one billion devices Apple s active installed base is now one billion devices Granted some of those Apple devices were probably sold into the market place years ago But that 1 billion figure can and should be compared to the numbers Microsoft touts for Windows 10 200 million most recently or Windows more generally 1 5 billion active users a number that hasn t moved magically in years and that Google touts for Android over 1 4 billion as of September My understanding of iOS is that the user base was previously thought to be around 800 million strong and when you factor out Macs and other non iOS Apple devices that s probably about right But as you can see there are three big personal computing platforms Paul Thurrott 25 Microsoft backed away from their goal of one billion Windows 10 devices in three years or by the middle of 2018 26 and reported on 26 September 2016 that Windows 10 was running on over 400 million devices 27 and in March 2019 on more than 800 million 28 By late 2016 Android had been explained to be killing Apple s iOS market share i e its declining sales of smartphones not just relatively but also by number of units when the whole market is increasing with the gap between the two is growing ever larger all the time According to Gartner Android now boasts a global market share of 86 2 percent Apple s iOS is a long way behind with a market share of just 12 9 percent The rest may as well not even exist These figures which cover the second quarter of 2016 show that Android has actually increased its market share by 4 percent over the last year All other operating systems are down with iOS losing 1 7 percent I think it s fair to declare Android the winner in the mobile operating system wars at this point makeuseof com 29 As of 9 May 2019 the biggest smartphone companies by market share were Samsung Huawei and Apple respectively 30 Gartner s own press release said Apple continued its downward trend with a decline of 7 7 percent in the second quarter of 2016 31 which is their decline based on absolute number of units that underestimates the relative decline with the market increasing along with the misleading 1 7 percent point decline That point decline means an 11 6 relative decline from 14 6 down to 12 9 Although in units sold Apple is declining they are almost the only vendor making any profit in the smartphone sector from hardware sales alone In Q3 2016 for example they captured 103 6 of the market profits 32 There are more mobile phone owners than toothbrush owners 33 with mobile phones the fastest growing technology in history citation needed There are a billion more active mobile phones in the world than people and many more than 10 billion sold so far with less than half still in use explained by the fact that some people have more than one such as an extra for work 34 All the phones have an operating system but only a fraction of them are smartphones with an OS capable of running modern applications Currently 3 1 billion smartphones and tablets are in use across the world with tablets a small fraction of the total generally running the same operating systems Android or iOS the latter being more popular on tablets In 2019 a variant of iOS called iPadOS built for iPad tablets was released Tablet computers shipments Edit In 2015 eMarketer estimated at the beginning of the year that the tablet installed base would hit one billion 35 for the first time with China s use at 328 million which Google Play doesn t serve or track and the United States s use second at 156 million At the end of the year because of cheap tablets not counted by all analysts that goal was met even excluding cumulative sales of previous years as Sales quintupled to an expected 1 billion units worldwide this year from 216 million units in 2014 according to projections from the Envisioneering Group While that number is far higher than the 200 plus million units globally projected by research firms IDC Gartner and Forrester Envisioneering analyst Richard Doherty says the rival estimates miss all the cheap Asian knockoff tablets that have been churning off assembly lines Forrester says its definition of tablets is relatively narrow while IDC says it includes some tablets by Amazon but not all The top tech purchase of the year continued to be the smartphone with an expected 1 5 billion sold worldwide according to projections from researcher IDC Last year saw some 1 2 billion sold Computers didn t fare as well despite the introduction of Microsoft s latest software upgrade Windows 10 and the expected but not realized bump it would provide for consumers looking to skip the upgrade and just get a new computer instead Some 281 million PCs were expected to be sold according to IDC down from 308 million in 2014 Folks tend to be happy with the older computers and keep them for longer as more of our daily computing activities have moved to the smartphone While Windows 10 got good reviews from tech critics only 11 of the 1 billion plus Windows user base opted to do the upgrade according to Microsoft This suggests Microsoft has a ways to go before the software gets hit status Apple s new operating system El Capitan has been downloaded by 25 of Apple s user base according to Apple USA Today 36 This conflicts with statistics from IDC that say the tablet market contracted by 10 in 2015 with only Huawei ranked fifth with big gains more than doubling their share for fourth quarter 2015 the five biggest vendors were the same except that Amazon Fire tablets ranked third worldwide new on the list enabled by its not quite tripling of market share to 7 9 with its Fire OS Android derivative 37 Global tablet shipments a Source Year Android iOS Windows OthersStrategy Analytics 38 Q2 2022 49 38 11 2 Statista 39 2020 59 4 29 8 10 21 0 59 Strategy Analytics 40 2015 68 22 10 lt 0 1 Gartner 41 2013 61 9 36 0 2 1 lt 0 1 Gartner 41 2012 45 8 52 8 1 0 0 3 Gartner excludes some devices from their tablet shipment statistic and includes them in a different category called premium ultramobiles with screen sizes of more than 10 inches 42 Smartphone shipments Edit Worldwide smartphone sales to end users by operating systems as measured by Gartner International Data Corporation IDG and others Smartphone shipments by OS Source Method Quarter month Android including forks iOS Windows all versions BlackBerry all versions Symbian OthersStatista 43 based on page views per month worldwide 2022 Q4 71 1 28 3 N A N A N A 0 6 Gartner 44 Units sold in quarter 2018 Q1 85 9 14 1 N A N A N A 0 0 Gartner 45 Units sold per year 2017 85 9 14 0 N A N A N A 0 1 Gartner 46 Units sold in quarter 2017 Q1 86 1 13 7 N A N A N A 0 2 Gartner 47 Units sold per year 2016 84 8 14 4 N A N A N A 0 8 Gartner 48 Units sold in quarter 2016 Q4 81 7 17 9 0 3 0 0 N A 0 1 Gartner 49 Units sold in quarter 2016 Q3 87 8 11 5 0 4 0 1 N A 0 2 Gartner 50 Units sold in quarter 2016 Q2 86 2 12 9 0 6 0 1 N A 0 2 Gartner 51 Units sold in quarter 2016 Q1 84 1 14 8 0 7 0 2 N A 0 2 Gartner 52 Units sold in quarter 2015 Q4 80 7 17 7 1 1 0 2 N A 0 2 Gartner 53 Units sold in quarter 2015 Q2 82 2 14 6 2 5 0 3 N A 0 4 Gartner 54 Units sold in quarter 2014 Q4 76 0 20 4 2 8 0 5 N A 0 4 Strategy Analytics 55 Units shipped in quarter 2014 Q3 81 3 13 4 4 1 1 0 N A 0 2 Gartner 56 Units sold in quarter 2014 Q2 83 8 12 2 2 8 0 7 N A 0 5 Gartner 57 Units sold in quarter 2013 Q2 79 0 14 2 3 3 2 7 0 3 0 6 Gartner 58 Units sold in quarter 2013 Q1 74 4 18 2 2 9 3 0 0 6 1 0 International Data Corporation 59 Units shipped in quarter 2013 Q1 75 0 17 3 3 2 2 9 0 6 0 0 Web clients EditThis section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information Last update Recent statistics from 2018 is needed for this section August 2018 Web clients OS family statisticsAndroid or based on 42 67 Windows 29 56 Apple s iOS 17 38 Apple s macOS 6 07 Unknown 2 04 Other 1 25 Linux 0 98 Web clients OS family market share according to StatCounter for April 2022 60 The information on web clients is obtained from user agent information obtained through JavaScript code run by web browsers supplied to web servers Unknown is probably mostly Windows operating systems citation needed These figures have a large margin of error for a variety of reasons For a discussion on the shortcomings see usage share of web browsers The most recent data from various sources published during the last twelve months is summarized in the table below All of these sources monitor a substantial number of web sites statistics related to one web site only are excluded Android currently ranks highest 61 above Windows incl Xbox console systems Windows Phone accounted for 0 51 of the web usage before it was discontinued 62 Considering all personal computing devices Microsoft Windows is well below 50 usage share on every continent and at 30 in the US 24 single day low and in many countries lower e g China and in India at 19 12 some days and Windows lowest share globally was 29 in May 2022 25 some days and 29 in the US 63 iOS is slightly more popular than Windows in the US and has been more used the last 6 months on a monthly average basis 64 or for up to 11 weeks in a row weekly average 65 That s because it s much more popular on the weekends while Windows usually more used on weekdays iOS has however been more used for up to almost 2 weeks every day of that time span and even on some days such as 29 May 2022 Android is also more used than Windows meaning iOS and Android are up to 2 6 more used than Windows there 66 Worldwide Android at 43 23 is 48 more used than Windows next at 29 2 and iOS third at 17 67 meaning the mobile operating systems Android and iOS are combined a bit over 2 more popular then Windows In Africa Android at 62 66 for May alone is 3 3 almost 4 with iOS than Windows at 18 81 and iOS third at 10 74 67 For a 12 month average Android is only 2 1 more popular than Windows in Africa Before iOS became the most popular operating system in any independent country it was most popular in Guam an unincorporated territory of the United States for four consecutive quarters in 2017 18 68 69 although Android is now the most popular there 70 iOS has been the highest ranked OS in Jersey a British Crown dependency in Europe for years by a wide margin and iOS was also highest ranked in Falkland Islands a British Overseas Territory for one quarter in 2019 before being overtaken by Android in the following quarter 71 72 iOS is competitive with Windows in Sweden where some days it is more used 73 The designation of an Unknown operating system is strangely high in a few countries such as Madagascar where it was at 32 44 no longer near as high 74 This may be due to the fact that StatCounter uses browser detection to get OS statistics and there the most common browsers are not often used The version breakdown for browsers in Madagascar shows Other at 34 9 75 and Opera Mini 4 4 is the most popular known browser at 22 1 plus e g 3 34 for Opera 7 6 However browser statistics without version breakdown has Opera at 48 11 with the Other category very small 76 clarification needed In China Android got to be the highest ranked operating system in July 2016 Windows has occasionally topped it since then while since April 2016 it or all non mobile operating systems haven t outranked mobile operating systems meaning Android plus iOS 77 In the Asian continent as a whole Android has been ranked highest since February 2016 and Android alone has the majority share 78 because of a large majority in all the most populous countries of the continent up to 84 in Bangladesh where it has had over 70 share for over four years 79 Since August 2015 Android is ranked first at 48 36 in May 2016 in the African continent when it took a big jump ahead of Windows 7 80 and thereby Africa joined Asia as a mobile majority continent China is no longer a desktop majority country 81 joining India which has a mobile majority of 71 confirming Asia s significant mobile majority Online usage of Linux kernel derivatives Android ChromeOS other Linux exceeds that of Windows This has been true since some time between January and April 2016 according to W3Counter 82 and StatCounter 83 However even before that the figure for all Unix like OSes including those from Apple was higher than that for Windows Source Date Microsoft Windows kernel Apple Darwin Linux kernel Others b 10 8 8 1 7 Vista XP WP amp RT Other macOS iOS Linux Android OtherW3Counter 84 Oct 2022 19 23 N A 3 4 N A N A N A N A 4 03 19 23 N A 45 18 N A N AW3Counter 85 Oct 2020 20 55 N A 6 74 N A N A N A N A 8 06 13 67 N A 37 44 N A N AW3Counter 86 Jun 2019 update 16 23 N A 14 32 N A N A N A N A 3 58 13 54 N A 38 76 N A N AW3Counter 86 Jun 2018 update 11 14 N A 12 29 N A N A N A N A 2 80 10 68 N A 53 21 N A N AW3Counter 87 Dec 2016 update 13 79 4 54 18 45 N A N A N A N A 4 45 12 60 3 8 34 37 N A 8 StatCounter Global Stats 88 Mar 2017 12 98 4 57 17 84 0 41 2 07 0 0 06 5 17 13 09 0 75 37 93 0 76 7 21 StatCounter Global Stats 88 Dec 2016 12 5 4 79 18 0 46 2 24 0 64 0 09 4 92 12 71 0 86 37 8 0 72 4 61 StatCounter Global Stats 89 Oct 2016 update 12 08 5 21 18 97 0 6 2 44 0 7 0 05 5 3 12 04 0 85 34 46 0 63 6 67 StatCounter Global Stats 90 May 2016 update 10 27 6 68 22 25 0 73 3 44 0 83 0 8 5 05 11 38 0 91 31 6 0 64 6 15 StatCounter Global Stats 90 Dec 2015 update 6 67 8 5 26 66 1 0 4 75 0 92 0 2 5 51 10 82 1 03 27 01 0 36 6 57 Wikimedia 91 Dec 2016 update 14 0 4 65 18 0 0 43 1 70 0 93 0 50 5 4 19 0 0 80 23 0 0 30 11 29 Desktop and laptop computers EditThis section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information Last update Recent statistics till 2018 is needed for some parts in this section October 2018 Desktop Laptop operating system browsing statisticsWindows 74 83 macOS 15 37 Unknown 4 93 Linux 2 48 ChromeOS 2 38 FreeBSD 0 01 Desktop OS market share according to StatCounter for April 2022 92 ChromeOS is also based on the Linux kernel Windows is still the dominant desktop OS but the dominance varies by region and it has gradually lost market share to other desktop operating systems not just to mobile with the slide very noticeable in the US where macOS usage has more than quadrupled from Jan 2009 to Dec 2020 to 30 62 i e in Christmas month and 34 72 in April 2020 in the middle of COVID 19 and iOS was more popular overall that year 93 globally Windows lost to Android that year 94 as for the two years prior with Windows down to 61 136 and ChromeOS at 5 46 plus traditional Linux at 1 73 95 There is little openly published information on the device shipments of desktop and laptop computers Gartner publishes estimates but the way the estimates are calculated is not openly published Another source of market share of various operating systems is StatCounter 96 basing its estimate on web use although this may not be very accurate Also sales may overstate usage Most computers are sold with a pre installed operating system with some users replacing that OS with a different one due to personal preference or installing another OS alongside it and using both Conversely sales underestimate usage by not counting unauthorized copies For example in 2009 approximately 80 of software sold in China consisted of illegitimate copies 97 In 2007 the statistics from an automated update of IE7 for registered Windows computers differed with the observed web browser share leading one writer to estimate that 25 35 of all Windows XP installations were unlicensed 98 The usage share of Microsoft s then latest operating system Windows 10 has slowly increased since July August 2016 reaching around 27 15 of all Windows versions not all desktop or all operating systems in December 2016 It eventually reached 79 79 on 5 October 2021 the same day on which its successor Windows 11 was released Web analysis shows significant variation in different parts of the world For example macOS use varies a lot by region in North America claims 16 82 99 17 52 100 in the US whereas in Asia it is only 4 4 101 In the United States usage of Windows XP has dropped to 0 38 of all Windows versions and its global average to 0 59 while in Africa it is still at 2 71 and it still has double digit share in at least one country 102 Since mid 2020 the world uses smartphones more than desktop including laptop computers 103 104 105 For global statistics it s every day of the week It has also happened for all individual continents at least for some weeks and also for the United States 106 107 108 109 where the smartphone share has gone up to 54 both on July 9 2019 a Sunday 110 and also that high in 2021 The proportions do vary widely by region more so than by the day e g in Africa the smartphone share is highest at 69 in Asia at 65 and in South America at 50 19 while in the United States it s at 46 and desktop at 50 On some continents e g North America and the US smartphone use may only go over 50 on weekends since smartphones usage increases on weekends 111 112 113 114 while the smartphone share has gone up to 54 for a single day Thanksgiving and on average over 50 for full week 115 116 Smartphones 58 01 Desktops Laptops 39 49 Tablets 2 46 Console 0 06 The 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey provides no detail about particular versions of Windows The desktop operating system share among those identifying as professional developers was 117 Windows 45 3 macOS 29 2 Linux 25 3 BSD Unix 0 1 Microsoft data on Windows usage Edit In June 2016 Microsoft claimed Windows 10 had half the market share of all Windows installations in the US and UK as quoted by BetaNews Microsoft s Windows trends page shows Windows 10 hit 50 percent in the US 51 percent in the UK 39 percent globally while Windows 7 was on 38 percent 36 percent in the UK 46 percent globally A big reason for the difference in numbers comes down to how they are recorded actual OS usage based on web browsing while Microsoft records the number of devices Windows 10 is installed on Microsoft also only records Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8 1 and Windows 10 while NetMarketShare includes both XP and Vista BetaNews 118 Desktop computer games Edit The digital video game distribution platform Steam publishes a monthly Hardware amp Software Survey with the statistics below Month Microsoft Windows Mac OS Linux OtherDecember 2021 96 19 2 70 1 11 December 2020 119 96 41 2 82 0 78 December 2019 120 96 89 2 47 0 67 January 2019 121 95 92 3 27 0 82 January 2018 122 98 38 1 31 0 25 January 2017 123 95 79 3 31 0 80 January 2016 124 95 39 3 55 0 95 January 2015 125 95 48 3 32 1 09 January 2014 126 94 93 3 47 0 86 0 74 These figures as reported by Steam do not include SteamOS statistics 127 Mobile devices EditSmartphones OS by usage Edit See also Mobile operating system Market share Android is the most popular mobile operating system By Q1 2018 mobile operating systems on smartphones included Google s dominant Android and variants and Apple s iOS which combined had an almost 100 market share 128 Smartphone penetration vs desktop use differs substantially by country Some countries like Russia still have smartphone use as low as 22 35 as a fraction of all web use 129 but in most western countries smartphone use is close to 50 of all web use This doesn t mean that only half of the population has a smartphone could mean almost all have just that other platforms have about equal use Smartphone usage share in developing countries is much higher in Bangladesh for example Android smartphones had up to 84 and currently 70 share 79 and in Mali smartphones had over 90 up to 95 share for almost two years 130 131 A section below has more information on regional trends on the move to smartphones There is a clear correlation between the GDP per capita of a country and that country s respective smartphone OS market share with users in the richest countries being much more likely to choose Apple s iPhone with Google s Android being predominant elsewhere 132 133 134 Global mobile OS web usage c Source Method Quarter month Android including forks iOS Windows all versions BlackBerry all versions Symbian OthersStatCounter Global Stats 135 Browsing page view 2021 Oct 71 09 28 21 0 01 N A N A 0 69 StatCounter Global Stats 136 Browsing page view 2020 Oct 72 93 26 53 0 03 N A N A 0 51 StatCounter Global Stats Browsing page view 2019 Sep 76 24 22 48 0 17 0 02 0 02 1 07 StatCounter Global Stats 137 Browsing page view 2015 Mar 61 94 22 64 2 27 NA 6 00 7 09 StatCounter Global Stats 137 Browsing page view 2014 Aug 54 87 23 57 2 36 1 59 9 73 7 87 StatCounter Global Stats 137 Browsing page view 2014 Feb 47 57 22 97 2 22 2 62 14 86 6 08 Wikimedia includes tablets d Browsing page view 2013 Mar 25 93 66 53 1 85 2 02 3 03 1 12 United States mobile OS web usage Source Method Quarter month Android including forks iOS Windows all versions BlackBerry all versions Symbian OtherscomScore 138 US only US subscribers 2017 Jan 52 0 43 9 1 5 0 5 N A N AcomScore 139 US only US subscribers 2016 Jan 52 8 43 6 2 7 0 8 N A N AcomScore 140 US only US subscribers 2015 Jan 53 2 41 3 3 6 1 8 0 1 N AcomScore 141 US only US subscribers 2014 Jan 51 7 41 6 3 2 3 1 0 2 N AcomScore 142 US only US subscribers 2012 Feb 50 1 30 2 3 9 13 4 1 5 N AcomScore 143 US only US subscribers 2010 Dec 28 7 25 0 8 4 31 6 N A 3 7 Tablet computers OS by usage Edit This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information Last update Recent statistics till mid 2018 is needed for some parts in this section August 2018 This section may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia s layout guidelines The reason given is The table Global Shipments needs to be moved to the appropriate section about shipments at the beginning of the article Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure September 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Tablet computers or simply tablets became a significant OS market share category starting with Apple s iPad In Q1 2018 iOS had 65 03 market share and Android had 34 58 market share 144 Windows tablets may not get classified as such by some analysts and thus barely register e g 2 in 1 PCs may get classified as desktops not tablets Since 2016 in South America and Cuba 145 in North America Android tablets have gained majority 146 and in Asia in 2017 Android was slightly more popular than the iPad which was at 49 05 usage share in October 2015 147 148 149 In Africa Android tablets are much more popular while elsewhere the iPad has a safe margin As of March 2015 update Android has made steady gains to becoming the most popular tablet operating system 150 that is the trend in many countries having already gained the majority in large countries India at 63 25 151 and in Indonesia at 62 22 152 and in the African continent with Android at 62 22 first to gain Android majority in late 2014 153 with steady gains from 20 98 in August 2012 154 Egypt at 62 37 155 Zimbabwe at 62 04 155 and South America at 51 09 in July 2015 156 Peru at 52 96 157 Asia is at 46 158 In Nepal Android gained majority lead in November 2014 but lost it down to 41 35 with iOS at 56 51 159 In Taiwan as of October 2016 Android after having gained a confident majority has been on a losing streak 160 China is a major exception to Android gaining market share in Asia there Android phablets are much more popular than Android tablets while similar devices get classified as smartphones where the iPad iOS is at 82 84 in March 2015 161 Global tablet web usage Source Month iOS Android Windows OthersStatCounter 162 Oct 2020 58 86 41 02 0 08 0 04 StatCounter 163 Dec 2019 63 11 36 65 0 15 0 09 StatCounter 164 Jul 2018 65 03 34 58 0 21 0 18 StatCounter 165 Jul 2015 65 51 31 36 0 78 2 93 StatCounter 166 Feb 2015 66 47 29 6 1 16 2 73 StatCounter 167 Oct 2014 71 67 25 62 0 08 2 63 Crossover to smartphones having majority share Edit This section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information Last update Recent statistics from 2018 is needed for some parts in this section August 2018 See also Usage share of web browsers Crossover to smartphones having majority share According to StatCounter web use statistics a proxy for all use smartphones are more popular than desktop computers globally and Android in particular more popular than Windows Including tablets with mobiles smartphones as they also run so called mobile operating systems even in the United States and most countries are mobiles including tablets more popular than other older originally made for desktops operating systems such as Windows and macOS Windows in the US at 33 42 has only 8 head start 2 55 percentage points over iOS only with Android that mobile operating system and iOS have 52 14 majority 168 Alternatively Apple with iOS plus their non mobile macOS 9 33 has 20 more share 6 7 percentage points more than Microsoft s Windows in the country where both companies were built Although desktop computers are still popular in many countries while overall down to 44 9 in the first quarter of 2017 169 smartphones are more popular even in many developed countries A few countries on all continents are desktop minority with Android more popular than Windows many e g Poland in Europe and about half of the countries in South America and many in North America e g Guatemala Honduras Haiti up to most countries in Asia and Africa 170 with smartphone majority because of Android Poland and Turkey in Europe highest with 57 68 and 62 33 respectively In Ireland smartphone use at 45 55 outnumbers desktop use and mobile as a whole gains majority when including the tablet share at 9 12 171 172 Spain was also slightly desktop minority As of July 2019 Sweden had been desktop minority for eight weeks in a row 173 The range of measured mobile web use varies a lot by country and a StatCounter press release recognizes India amongst world leaders in use of mobile to surf the internet 174 of the big countries where the share is around or over 80 175 and desktop is at 19 56 with Russia trailing with 17 8 mobile use and desktop the rest Smartphones discounting tablets first gained majority in December 2016 desktop majority was lost the month before where and it wasn t a Christmas time fluke as while close to majority after smartphone majority happened again in March 2017 176 clarification needed In the week of 7 13 November 2016 smartphones alone without tablets overtook desktop for the first time albeit for a short period 177 Examples of mobile majority countries include Paraguay in South America Poland in Europe and Turkey and most of Asia and Africa Some of the world is still desktop majority with for example the United States at 54 89 but not on all days 178 However in some territories of the United States such as Puerto Rico 179 desktop is significantly under majority with Windows just under 25 overtaken by Android On 22 October 2016 and subsequent weekends mobile showed majority 180 Since 27 October the desktop hasn t had a majority including on weekdays Smartphones alone have showed majority since 23 December to the end of the year with the share topping at 58 22 on Christmas Day 181 To the mobile majority share of smartphones tablets could be added giving a 63 22 majority While an unusually high top a similar high also occurred on Monday 17 April 2017 with the smartphone share slightly lower and tablet share slightly higher combining to 62 88 Formerly according to a StatCounter press release the world has turned desktop minority 182 as of October 2016 update at about 49 desktop use for that month but mobile wasn t ranked higher tablet share had to be added to it to exceed desktop share For the Christmas season i e temporarily while desktop minority remains and smartphone majority on weekends 183 184 the last two weeks in December 2016 Australia and Oceania in general 185 was desktop minority for the first time for an extended period i e every day from 23 December 186 In South America smartphones alone took majority from desktops on Christmas Day 184 but for a full week average desktop is still at least at 58 187 The UK desktop minority dropped down to 44 02 on Christmas Day and for the eight days to the end of the year 188 Ireland joined some other European countries with smartphone majority for three days after Christmas topping that day at 55 39 189 190 In the US desktop minority happened for three days on and around Christmas while a longer four day stretch happened in November and happens frequently on weekends 191 According to StatCounter web use statistics a proxy for all use in the week from 7 13 November 2016 mobile meaning smartphones alone without tablets overtook desktop for the first time with them highest ranked at 52 13 on 27 November 2016 192 or up to 49 02 for a full week 193 194 Mobile majority applies to countries such as Paraguay in South America Poland in Europe and Turkey and the continents Asia and Africa Large regions of the rest of the world are still desktop majority while on some days the United States 195 and North America as a whole 196 isn t the US is desktop minority up to four days in a row 197 and up to a five day average 198 Other examples of desktop minority on some days include the UK 196 Ireland 199 Australia 200 and Oceania as a whole in fact at least one country on every continent 201 202 203 has turned desktop minority for at least a month On 22 October 2016 and subsequent weekends mobile has shown majority 204 Previously according to a StatCounter press release the world has turned desktop minority 205 as of October 2016 update at about 49 desktop use for that month 206 207 with desktop minority stretching up to an 18 weeks 4 months period from 28 June to 31 October 2016 208 209 while whole of July August or September 2016 showed desktop majority and many other long sub periods in the long stretch showed desktop minority similarly only Fridays Saturdays and Sundays are desktop minority The biggest continents Asia and Africa have shown vast mobile majority for long time any day of the week as well as several individual countries elsewhere have also turned mobile majority Poland Albania and Turkey 210 in Europe and Paraguay and Bolivia 211 in South America 212 According to StatCounter s web use statistics Saturday 28 May 2016 was the day when smartphones mobile at StatCounter that now counts tablets separately became a most used platform ranking first at 47 27 above desktops 213 214 The next day desktops slightly outnumbered mobile unless counting tablets some analysts count tablets with smartphones or separately while others with desktops even when most tablets are iPad or Android not Windows devices 215 Since Sunday 27 March 2016 the first day the world dipped to desktop minority 216 it has happened almost every week and by week of 11 17 July 2016 the world was desktop minority 217 followed by the next week and thereon also for a three week period 218 The trend is still stronger on weekends with e g 17 July 2016 showed desktop at 44 67 mobile at 49 5 plus tablets at 5 7 219 Recent weekly data shows a downward trend for desktops 220 221 According to StatCounter web use statistics a proxy for overall use on weekends desktops worldwide lose about 5 percent points e g down to 51 46 on 15 August 2015 with the loss in relative web use going to mobile and also a minuscule increase for tablets 222 mostly because Windows 7 ranked 1st on workdays declines in web use with it shifting to Android and lesser degree to iOS 223 Two continents have already crossed over to mobile majority because of Android based on StatCounters web use statistics In June 2015 Asia became the first continent where mobile overtook desktop 224 followed by Africa in August 225 while Nigeria had mobile majority in October 2011 226 227 because of Symbian that later had 51 share then Series 40 dominating followed by Android as dominating operating system 228 and as far back as October 2014 they had reported this trend on a large scale in a press release Mobile usage has already overtaken desktop in several countries including India South Africa and Saudi Arabia 229 In India desktop went from majority in July 2012 down to 32 230 In Bangladesh desktop went from majority in May 2013 down to 17 with Android alone now accounting for majority web use 231 Only a few African countries were still desktop majority 232 and many have a large mobile majority including Ethiopia and Kenya where mobile usage is over 72 233 The popularity of mobile use worldwide has been driven by the huge popularity increase of Android in Asian countries where Android is the highest ranked operating system statistically in virtually every south east Asian country 234 while it also ranks most popular in almost every African country Poland has been desktop minority since April 2015 235 because of Android being vastly more popular there 236 and other European countries such as Albania and Turkey have also crossed over The South America continent is somewhat far from losing desktop majority but Paraguay had lost it as of March 2015 update 237 Android and mobile browsing in general has also become hugely popular in all other continents where desktop has a large desktop base and the trend to mobile is not as clear as a fraction of the total web use While some analysts count tablets with desktops as some of them run Windows others count them with mobile phones as the vast majority of tablets run so called mobile operating systems such as Android or iOS on the iPad iPad has a clear lead globally but has clearly lost the majority to Android in South America 238 and a number of Eastern European countries such as Poland lost virtually all African countries and has lost the majority twice in Asia but gained the majority back while many individual countries e g India and most of the middle East have clear Android majority on tablets 239 Android on tablets is thus second most popular after the iPad 240 In March 2015 for the first time in the US the number of mobile only adult internet users exceeded the number of desktop only internet users with 11 6 of the digital population only using mobile compared to 10 6 only using desktop this also means the majority 78 use both desktop and mobile to access the internet 241 A few smaller countries in North America such as Haiti because of Android have gone mobile majority mobile went to up to 72 35 and is at 64 43 in February 2016 242 Revenue Edit The region with the largest Android usage 61 also has the largest mobile revenue 243 Mobile app revenue US bn 2020 244 Asia Pacific 85 3BNorth and South America 74 5BEurope Middle East and Africa 29 1BPublic servers on the Internet Edit Servers in a colocation centre Internet based servers market share can be measured with statistical surveys of publicly accessible servers such as web servers mail servers 245 or DNS servers on the Internet the operating systems powering such servers are found by inspecting raw response messages This method gives insight only into market share of operating systems that are publicly accessible on the Internet There will be differences in the result depending on how the sample is done and observations weighted Usually the surveys are not based on a random sample of all IP addresses domain names hosts or organisations but on servers found by some other method citation needed Additionally many domains and IP addresses may be served by one host and some domains may be served by several hosts or by one host with several IP addresses Source Date Unix Unix like Microsoft Windows ReferencesW3Techs 14 July 2022 80 1 20 1 246 247 Security Space Feb 2014 lt 79 3 gt 20 7 248 249 Note W3Techs checked the top ten million web servers daily from June 2013 but W3Techs s definition of website differs a bit from Alexa s definition the top 10 million websites are actually fewer than 10 million W3Techs claims that these differences have no statistical significance 250 Note Revenue comparisons often include operating system software other bundled software 251 and are not appropriate for usage comparison as the Linux operating system costs nothing including other bundled software except if optionally using commercial distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux in that case cost of software for all software bundled with hardware has to be known for all operating systems involved and subtracted In cases where no cost Linux is used such comparisons underestimate Linux server popularity and overestimate other proprietary operating systems such as Unix and Windows Mainframes Edit IBM s System z10 Mainframes are larger and more powerful than servers but not supercomputers They are used to process large sets of data for example enterprise resource planning or credit card transactions The most common operating system for mainframes is IBM s z OS citation needed Operating systems for IBM Z generation hardware include IBM s proprietary z OS 252 Linux on IBM Z z TPF z VSE and z VM Gartner reported on 23 December 2008 that Linux on System z was used on approximately 28 of the customer z base and that they expected this to increase to over 50 in the following five years 253 Of Linux on IBM Z Red Hat and Micro Focus compete to sell RHEL and SLES respectively Prior to 2006 Novell claimed a market share of 85 or more for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Red Hat has since claimed 18 4 in 2007 and 37 in 2008 254 Gartner reported at the end of 2008 that Novell s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server had an 80 share of mainframe Linux 253 dead link Decline Edit Like today s trend of mobile devices from personal computers 241 in 1984 for the first time estimated sales of desktop computers 11 6 billion exceeded mainframe computers 11 4 billion IBM received the vast majority of mainframe revenue 255 From 1991 to 1996 AT amp T Corporation briefly owned NCR one of the major original mainframe producers During the same period companies found that servers based on microcomputer designs could be deployed at a fraction of the acquisition price and offer local users much greater control over their own systems given the IT policies and practices at that time Terminals used for interacting with mainframe systems were gradually replaced by personal computers Consequently demand plummeted and new mainframe installations were restricted mainly to financial services and government In the early 1990s there was a rough consensus among industry analysts that the mainframe was a dying market as mainframe platforms were increasingly replaced by personal computer networks 256 In 2012 NASA powered down its last mainframe an IBM System z9 257 However IBM s successor to the z9 the z10 led a New York Times reporter to state four years earlier that mainframe technology hardware software and services remains a large and lucrative business for IBM and mainframes are still the back office engines behind the world s financial markets and much of global commerce 258 As of 2010 update while mainframe technology represented less than 3 of IBM s revenues it continue d to play an outsized role in Big Blue s results 259 Supercomputers Edit Sierra helps to assure the safety reliability and effectiveness of the United States nuclear weapons The TOP500 project lists and ranks the 500 fastest supercomputers for which benchmark results are submitted Since the early 1990s the field of supercomputers has been dominated by Unix or Unix like operating systems and starting in 2017 every top 500 fastest supercomputer uses Linux as its supercomputer operating system The last supercomputer to rank 1 while using an operating system other than Linux was ASCI White which ran AIX It held the title from November 2000 to November 2001 260 and was decommissioned in 2006 Then in June 2017 two AIX computers held rank 493 and 494 261 the last non Linux systems before they dropped off the list Supercomputer OS family 1993 2021 systems share according to TOP500 262 Historically all kinds of Unix operating systems dominated and in the end ultimately Linux remains Market share by category EditCategory Source Date Linux UNIX and Unix like not incl Linux Windows In house OtherDesktop laptop Net Applications 263 Apr 2020 2 87 excl ChromeOS plus 0 4 ChromeOS 9 75 macOS 86 92 all versions 0 06 Embedded e EE Times 264 Mar 2019 38 42 embedded Linux Ubuntu Android other 2 82 QNX LynxOS 10 73 Windows 10 Windows Embedded Compact 10 73 37 30 Mainframe Gartner 254 Dec 2008 28 SLES RHEL 72 z OS f Server web W3Techs 265 Sep 2021 Likely 77 4 39 8 confirmed g Ubuntu CentOS Debian Gentoo RHEL 266 Less than 1 is confirmed to be UNIX or Unix like and non Linux The top operating systems in order are 0 3 BSD 97 8 of which is FreeBSD 267 lt 0 1 Darwin 268 lt 0 1 HP UX 269 lt 0 1 Solaris 270 and lt 0 1 Minix 271 g 22 7 Windows Server 2019 WS2016 WS2012 WS2008 Microsoft s own webserver runs 6 6 of websites 272 Smartphone tablet StatCounter Global Stats 273 Apr 2020 70 80 Android KaiOS 28 79 iOS 0 07 0 34 Supercomputer TOP500 274 Nov 2019 100 Custom See also EditComparison of operating systems List of operating systems Timeline of operating systems Usage share of web browsers Mobile OS market shareNotes Edit Shipments refer to sell in that is wholesale The Others column is obtained by summing all percentage data and subtracting from 100 Table is only showing mobile OS market share not the overall market share Wikimedia Foundation statistics consider tablets as part of the mobile OS market share Embedded is a vast category which has subcategories that include automotive avionics health medical equipment consumer electronics intelligent homes and telecommunications The aggregated information above may be very different for each subcategory taken separately z OS s UNIX environment coexists with its native environment which dates back to OS 360 a b UNIX and Unix like including Linux represents 77 4 of the total web server website market share however 48 2 of that market share does not show more specifically which operating system References Edit Operating System Market Share Worldwide StatCounter Global Stats Retrieved 7 November 2022 Operating System Market Share Worldwide April 2022 statcounter Global Stats Mobile Operating System Market Share Worldwide August 2022 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Retrieved 3 March 2021 Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Device Shipments to Decline 14 in 2020 Due to Coronavirus Impact Gartner Retrieved 3 March 2021 Gartner Says Worldwide Device Shipments Will Increase 2 1 Percent in 2018 29 January 2018 Retrieved 18 December 2019 Gartner Windows OS device shipments will falter in 2017 10 January 2017 Retrieved 18 December 2019 Gartner Says Tablet Sales Continue to Be Slow in 2015 5 January 2015 Archived from the original on 7 January 2015 Retrieved 6 March 2015 Gartner Says Worldwide Traditional PC Tablet Ultramobile and Mobile Phone Shipments to Grow 4 2 Percent in 2014 7 July 2014 Archived from the original on 11 July 2014 Retrieved 6 March 2015 Gartner Says Worldwide PC Tablet and Mobile Phone Shipments to Grow 4 5 Percent in 2013 as Lower Priced Devices Drive Growth 21 October 2013 Archived from the original on 21 October 2013 Retrieved 6 March 2015 Gartner Says Worldwide End User Spending on Devices Will Grow 2 Percent in 2017 While Unit Shipments 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