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Despite the hype surrounding the 11 April release of the Creators Update for Microsoft Windows 10 , the market share figures for March suggest that PC users are resolutely sticking to Windows 7, rather than upgrade.
According to Net Applications’ NetMarketShare service, usage of Windows 7 continues to edge up, and the legacy Microsoft operating system remains twice as popular as Windows 10.
Windows 7, which has already seen off Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, has taken a one percentage point jump to 49.42 per cent (+1.01), putting it at its highest showing since June 2016, when Microsoft’s one-year free offer for Windows 10 stopped.
After the high-water-mark established by the launch of Windows 95, when people even queued up at midnight at computer stores to get hold of a copy, Microsoft’s stock has slowly declined.
These days, it seems that if the company makes an operating system that no one likes, no one buys it: Windows Vista, which goes end-of-life on 23 April , is now down to just 0.72 per cent (-0.06) in the NetMarketShare figures. But if they make one that’s too good, then much of the market actively avoids upgrading.
Of course, some of the tactics deployed by Microsoft, such as discontinuing support for Windows 7 on the latest chips and chipsets will no doubt have a longer term impact, but possibly at the cost of goodwill.
Meanwhile, Microsoft’s flagship operating system, Windows 10, is up a smidgen this month to 25.36 (+0.17) which will be fairly disappointing, especially as Windows 8.x has continued to drop (down by 0.29 to 8.23 per cent).
Windows XP has also taken a hit this month, dropping exactly the same amount as Windows 7 gained, to 7.44 (-1.01).
This is a pretty big drop for Windows XP, and it has been less than a year since it dropped below 10 per cent market share. In the whole of 2016 it only lost 1.86 per cent, but in the first quarter of 2017, it has already dropped 1.72, so this really could be they year it finally disappears, to all intents and purposes.
That’s assuming that the various bodies still using it, despite its gross insecurity, can finally let go.
In other operating systems, Apple MacOS 12 rules the roost with 3.22 (+0.31) with MacOS 11 at 1.46 (-0.09). MacOS 10 is at 0.93 (-0.07), while other Apple Mac operating systems stand at 0.65 (-0.08).
Finally, Linux increased marginally, and now stands at 0.93 (+0.09).

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Twitter is losing the head of its Asia Pacific business, Aliza Knox, after she announced the end of her near-five year tenure with the company. Knox was..
Twitter is losing the head of its Asia Pacific business, Aliza Knox, after she announced the end of her near-five year tenure with the company.
Knox was Twitter’s first hire in Asia — minus Japan — when she joined the company in 2012 . (Twitter runs its Japan business separate from its APAC operations.) Prior to that, she spent five years at Google, rising to the position of APAC MD of commerce.
Knox built out Twitter’s presence in Asia, which started with an office in Singapore (now APAC HQ) and currently spans nine locations (including Tokyo) and over 100 staff. In addition, her team developed the firm’s regional advertising and partnership businesses.
Her exit comes on the back of the loss of a number of high-profile Asia-based executives last year. Those departures included China head Kathy Chen , head of India and Southeast Asia Parminder Singh , India lead Rishi Jaitly , and Australia country boss Karen Stocks. Other changes for Twitter’s Asia business included the elimination of around 20 jobs from its Bangalore office in September, and a number of roles were “transitioned” from its Hong Kong office to the regional headquarters in Singapore.
Singapore-based Knox will remain with Twitter for the next couple of weeks, the company confirmed, during which she will handover to Maya Hari , previously Twitter’s MD of India and Southeast Asia, who will replace her in the APAC leadership role.
“We thank Aliza for her contributions and leadership over the past four years and a half years. She pioneered Twitter’s Asia Pacific business (outside of Japan), championed our expansion into new markets and businesses such as Indonesia and China export advertising, set up our Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore, and led our diversity initiatives across the region,” Twitter said in a statement.

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Mobile is today as important, if not more important, than desktops when it comes to the internet and apps. A clear reminder of that comes with news of a..
Mobile is today as important, if not more important, than desktops when it comes to the internet and apps. A clear reminder of that comes with news of a report claiming that Google’s Android has overtaken Windows as the internet’s most used operating system.
Research from web analytics company Statcounter found Android now accounts for a larger share of internet usage than Windows for the first time. During March 2017, Android users represented 37.93 percent of activity on Statcounter’s network versus 37.91 percent for the Microsoft operating system. It’s a small gap for sure — and it refers to usage not necessary users — but it marks a notable tipping point that has been inevitable for the past couple of years.
Statcounter — which bases its findings on 2.5 million websites that it claims generate over 15 billion monthly page views — tracked the gradual converge of usage for the two operating systems over time. The chart highlights Microsoft’s failure to challenge with its ill-fated Windows Phone platform.
Interestingly, for Apple, the switch happened some time ago. During March 2017, Apple’s mobile users (iOS) were close to three times more active on the internet than users of its desktop machines (OSX).
The wider Android-Windows trend has been evident for some time. Windows dominated, and continues to dominate, the desktop landscape, but worldwide PC sales have declined for the past five years to reach the same levels as 2008. In contrast, sales of smartphones continue to grow , and Android is the operating system for the lion’s share of internet users worldwide. Growth is highest in emerging markets like India. There, Apple has increased its sales but remains a niche player with Android accounting for upwards of 90 percent of smartphones.
While the balance between iOS and Android is more level in Western markets like the U. S., the influx of new internet users from regions like Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America has tipped the scales in favor of Android. Indeed, a Statcounter report issued last week showed that mobile accounts for the vast majority of internet usage in countries like India (79 percent), Indonesia (72 percent) and China (57 percent) while desktop remains king in markets such as the U. S. (37 percent), UK (35 percent) and Germany (30 percent).
Those numbers have seen some shift in global revenue for developers, with China overtaking the U. S. as the most lucrative market for iOS apps worldwide, but Android continues to lag despite a larger base of users.
A recent App Annie report found that iOS accounted for just over 25 billion of the 90 billion app downloads made in 2016, with Android taking the remainder. Yet iOS apps pulled in the majority of the $35 billion paid out to publishers across the iOS and Android app stores.
That might change soon, though. Thanks again to its vast dominance in the emerging world, App Annie is predicting that 2017 could be the year that Android app earnings overtake iOS for the first time. That would be another important milestone.

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French startup Molotov is trying to define the future of TV. It’s a promising start as there are now one million registered users on the platform — the..
French startup Molotov is trying to define the future of TV. It’s a promising start as there are now one million registered users on the platform — the service is only available in France.
On average, users spend 80 minutes per day on the platform. It is available on smartphones, tablets, computers and TVs. Users watch content on their smartphone 40 percent of the time, on their tablet or computer 40 percent of the time and TVs only represents 20 percent.
It’s interesting to see that people now tend to watch TV on other devices, neglecting the living room display. Molotov is available on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, Apple TV, Android TV, LG and Samsung smart TVs.
While the service is only available in France and is certainly catching the attention of our French readers, it’s worth paying attention to Molotov in general. Molotov lets you watch live TV, go back in time to the beginning of a show, catch up on past episodes a few days after they first aired in a single, unified interface.
It combines live TV with catch-up services, a cloud DVR and a powerful search feature. You don’t have to download multiple apps as nearly everything is available in Molotov. And more importantly, you can start watching on a device and finish on another as everything stays in sync between your devices.

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