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Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007) by doctaj on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:17PM (#10343832)
Yeah, OSX has like 8% market share at best. A person paying attention would be more surprised seeing a Mac.
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Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007) by Mikeb85 on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:24PM (#10343859)
A lot (most?) Windows 'installations' come in the form of legacy computers that haven't been upgraded in nearly a decade, or corporate boxes that are basically just terminals running MS Office...

When you're talking new personal devices, its mostly a mix of various tablets (non-MS), OSX, ChromeOS and Windows ultrabooks...

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Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007) by cryptoz on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:19PM (#10343838)
OS X market share can be 0% if your sample is a corporate office, or it can be 100% if you're in a startup space, a university class, etc. It really really depends on the context and your surroundings. Some people will be surprised by Windows, some by Mac. I think that PG probably assumes that the people he is around are building the future, and therefore, when he doesn't see Windows, he makes a connection there.
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Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007) by doctaj on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:23PM (#10343852)
Yeah,I agree with that for sure. My stat was just overall - for desktop computers and laptops, which are admittedly on the decline.
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Re:Microsoft is Dead (2007) by lqdc13 on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @12:00AM (#10344126)
A university class? I've never seen a single mac at my US state university 2 years ago.
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