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Linux/Android is Eating Windows Fortress of Cardboard

  • Subject: Linux/Android is Eating Windows Fortress of Cardboard
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:05:24 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Are Windows PCs already falling to smartphones and tablets?

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| When I look into my technology crystal ball, I see people moving from desktops 
| to smartphones and tablets. Iâm not the only one who sees a post-PC world 
| coming. What I didnât expect was to find proof that desktop Windows was 
| already a dead technology walking.
| 
| Over at ZDNetâs sister site, CNet, they recently reported on 15-years of 
| Download.com. I expected this to be little more than a nice historical walk 
| down a popular siteâs past. Well, it is that, but itâs also contains lots of 
| bad news for Windows users.
| 
| You see, in 1996, when Download.com was founded, 89.5% of its downloads were 
| Windows programs. Would you care to guess what the percentage of Windows 
| downloads are in 2011? Itâs a mere 28%.
| 
| Wow.
| 
| Today, 67.5% of Download.comâs downloads are mobile applications. Think about 
| that. Even with Appleâs App Store and Androidâs Market getting the vast 
| majority of mobile downloads since theyâre built into iPhones, iPads and 
| Android devices, people are still downloading more than twice as many mobile 
| apps than they are Windows programs from Download.com.
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/are-windows-pcs-already-falling-to-smartphones-and-tablets/61728
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