The share of Windows 8 operating systems installed on laptops, dropped below 90 percent.Analysts blame the competing operating systems OS X and Chrome OS.
According to the site Digitimes, referring to sources of Taiwanese suppliers, every tenth portable computer that comes on the market now uses "alternative" operating system.Analysts say Microsoft platform displacement is due to the growing popularity MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, as well as cloud-based solutions OSes Chrome OS.
Users are increasingly moving to laptops Apple, thanks to a more traditional OS X interface and the prevalence of iPhone and iPad, experts suggest. According to official data, in the second quarter of 2014 the company from Cupertino sold a record number of Mac - 4,4 million, 18% higher than a year earlier. Lokomotiv steel updated Mac sales this spring laptops MacBook Air.
Chromebooks, in turn, have proved popular in the education sector and the U.S. and UK corporations. Before year-end manufacturers including Acer, Asustek, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, LG and Toshiba, plan to put on the market about 20 notebooks based on Intel processors and running Chrome OS. They will cost about $ 350, according to the sources Digitimes.
Microsoft takes measures to preserve the popularity of its OS. In particular, the Redmond company has recently expanded the program to provide free Windows 8. Until the end, HP and Acer in collaboration with Microsoft has launched laptops for sale for $ 200. Observers say that to strengthen the competitiveness of Microsoft should fix shortcomings of Windows 8 and accelerate work on Windows 9.