Microsoft’s Windows has held the crown of being the most-used operating system in the world for over two decades. But its reign has come to an end as Google’s Android has trumped its rival OS.
Microsoft’s Windows has ruled the OS market for as long as one can remember. Bill Gates’ company had a vision: « a computer in every home » and it succeeded in doing that. That was the PC-era, as some like to call it and this is the « Post-PC » era dominated by smartphones, and we all know how that panned out for Microsoft. This month, however, marks an end to Windows’ reign in the OS arena as Google’s Android takes its place for the first time ever, according to StatCounter.
The firm calls it a « milestone in technology history » and the « end of an era » as Microsoft’s iconic OS is displaced after decades of dominance. For the month of March 2017, Android’s usage accounted for 37.
