You might have all thought that Windows operating systems rule the world. However, you are not correct. According to the latest reports, Microsoft operating system share is just 14 percent. Now, you might be wondering how this is possible when all the PCs around you run on Windows operating systems. However, here, the reports include all the operating systems taken together including the ones in the mobile devices.
The latest figure was revealed by Kevin Turner, who is the chief operating officer of the company. He was speaking at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference held at Washington. Now, when the desktop operating system market is considered, Microsoft still leads the way. The software giant stands at the number one spot with more than 90 percent of PCs running on Windows operating systems.
However, the low number of tablets and mobile devices that are being sold with Windows operating system has become a cause of concern for the software giant. According to the Windows support blogs, the company is planning to take some major steps, which will increase the sales of these devices. One such decision is taking zero revenue for the operating system that are released on devices with screen sizes of 9 inches and less. With the new move, Microsoft hopes to increase the sales of devices with Windows OS preinstalled in them.
The new figure of 14 percent from Microsoft is similar to the data released by the firm Gartner Inc, which had earlier told that there would be just 13.7 percent of Windows devices by the end of last year. In the database management sector, SQL servers went up to the second position with substantial increase in market revenue and number of users. According to Microsoft, company’s
Dynamics CRM is another platform that is showing tremendous increase in the number of users. The software giant says that the number of users in this platform has grown up by double digits in the last forty quarters.
According to Windows support blogs, about half of the Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft Azure. Tuner says that the company has released more than 300 new services and features for the program this year alone. The event also witnessed the preview of Cloud App Discovery that was added to Azure. With the new program, IT professionals will be able to find out which all apps are being used by the people since it is designed to track the SaaS apps.
