The operating software market appeared relatively recently, only in the middle of the 20th century, but it already plays an extremely important role in the modern world. The article analyzes the global operating system market share, dynamics, market concentration, and development prospects.
The dynamics of the operating system market share development
The relevance of the operating system market is due to the ever-growing demand for information technology services that meet certain needs of individuals and legal entities. System software began to play an extremely important role relatively recently, but it isn’t easy to imagine what the modern world would be like without it. Thanks to system software, it is possible to carry out various tasks and create application and tool software to achieve more highly specialized goals.
The operating system software market covers a huge number of people worldwide, which determines the relevance of this market for the modern world. Due to the competition from the largest companies, this market is constantly developing in various directions: from improving user security to introducing new network technologies, allowing you to complete your tasks and achieve your goals.
Following the statistics, the Windows operating system continues to lead in the personal computers and laptops (75.4%) segment. Next comes OS X for MacBook, with a share of 15.93%. Insignificant market shares fall on Chrome OS (2.59%), Linux (2.33%), and on all others — 3.75%. Mobile phones almost always use Android (72.44%) or iOS (26.75%) operating systems. According to the official website of the company, at the moment, more than 1 billion devices are running the latest version of Windows OS – Windows 10.
Thus, it can be stated that the system software market does not stand still, constantly developing in various directions, making life easier for both ordinary users and professional developers, improving the capabilities provided by operating systems, both from the external (graphical) and inner shell, allowing you to perform the intended tasks and achieve your goals.
Major trends in the development of the operating system market
All operating systems currently on the market, plus or minus, are similar, providing similar functionality and practically no difference from each other in this respect. So, we have analyzed modern market trends and made the following prognosis:
- The share of all other operating systems, except Windows, in the class of desktop operating systems, is small. Therefore, despite the increasing pressure from the Linux development community, Microsoft Corporation will maintain its dominant position in this market.
- In the server OS class, the shares of Windows and UNIX are comparable. Still, as the share of Unix in the server market continues to decline, as well as the share of Novell NetWare-based servers and Linux is rapidly increasing, the main battle in the market for server operating systems will unfold between Windows and Linux. Microsoft will remain the undisputed leader in this market in the coming years. However, the share of Linux servers will continue to increase, as many corporate users doubt the economic benefits of a full transition to the Linux platform.
- Analysts recognize Linux as the most dynamically developing platform; the number of sold desktops and especially servers based on Linux is growing rapidly.
- Microsoft has decided to release an innovative platform with no analogs and will not be in the near future. To do this, the company invested more than $ 10 billion in OpenAI, which created the ChatGPT neural network chat, which can replace search engines in the future and change the approach to many processes in IT technologies.