Surprise: Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X in Market Share

Courtesy Mashable!  Thu, 11/26/2009 - 02:53

Windows 7 is doing well, which gives the number crunching crowd an opportunity to compare it with Mac OS X – if only for a moment.

According to Internet metrics company Net Applications, Windows 7 last weekend powered (on average) 5.07% of PCs, while in that week Mac OS X (in all its iterations) powered around 5% of computers worldwide.

Since Windows’ overall market share is 92.64%, it’s obvious that this was bound to happen,...

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