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Mac OS X Grabs Record Market Share

Gains 3.56% over January, while Windows drops .36%

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 2, 2008 8:41 PM CST

(Newser) – Apple's Mac OS X operating system grabbed a record 7.57% of market share in January, up 21.7% from the year before, Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog reports. The computer company’s share grew 3.56% over the course of December, while rival Microsoft Windows faced a .36% loss—though it still holds a wide berth over Apple, with 91.46% of the market.

“Apple’s market share gains in December for the Mac and iPhone are impressive,” says the study on which the report is based. “However, for the last days of December”—when Apple's share reached 8.01%—“the numbers are nothing short of spectacular.” Net Applications, which released the data, collects information on visitors to 40,000 client websites and bases its numbers on usage rather than sales.

In this photo released by Apple Inc. a screen shot of Mac OS X Leopard is seen. (AP Photo/Apple Inc.) (Associated Press)

A customer uses an Apple MacBook with an advertisement for Leopard at an Apple store in Palo Alto, Calif., Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Apple Inc.'s delayed update to the Mac OS X operating system hits store... (Associated Press)

Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks about the new Apple operating system Leopard in San Francisco, Sept. 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (Associated Press)

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