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Standard User Pheasant
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sat 15-Mar-25 09:39:41
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Most Popular Operating Systems: Data from 1981 to 2025


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An interesting YouTube timelapse showing the changing market share from 1981 to present day…

https://youtu.be/29qnXTw0qr0
Standard User billford
(elder) Sat 15-Mar-25 10:39:56
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Windows XP seems to have had a good run smile

(Although that's a visual impression, I haven't attempted to tabulate how long each one stayed either in or near the top of the list)

And of course, there's the old argument as to whether early varieties of Windows were operating systems or DOS apps smile

Not sure if it's valid to include mobile OS's in the same list as those for "proper" machines... but not sure if it would be right to leave them out either crazy
Standard User jchamier
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sat 15-Mar-25 14:26:32
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In reply to a post by billford:
And of course, there's the old argument as to whether early varieties of Windows were operating systems or DOS apps smile
From an engineering standpoint Windows until 3.0 was an application from 3.0’s 286 and 386 modes DOS was used for some APIs and a bootloader, and from 3.1 major subsystems were moved away completely to 386 mode.

Not sure if it's valid to include mobile OS's in the same list as those for "proper" machines... but not sure if it would be right to leave them out either crazy
with home users massively moving to mobile and many homes not having a traditional computer anymore, worth capturing the scale

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Standard User gomezz
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sat 15-Mar-25 15:01:38
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So doesn't include the Big Iron OS systems which in monetary terms and end user terms would (and still does) dominate?

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Standard User TinyMongomery
(legend) Sat 15-Mar-25 15:24:41
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And all the NT variants, of which XP is one, are a completely different kettle of fish. No hint of MS-DOS.

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Standard User TinyMongomery
(legend) Sat 15-Mar-25 15:26:37
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Very few personal consumer computers run, or ran Big Iron OSs. Not zero, but very few.

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Standard User gomezz
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sat 15-Mar-25 20:56:30
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Not my point. Almost every facet of modern life by an individual, whether paying for your shopping, looking at a web site or making a phone call has some big iron somewhere playing its part.

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Standard User TinyMongomery
(legend) Sat 15-Mar-25 21:34:04
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Yes, but the thread is about OSs on consumer personal computers. At least the original post is.

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Standard User gomezz
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Sun 16-Mar-25 09:41:59
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The OP does not make that distinction.

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Standard User TinyMongomery
(legend) Sun 16-Mar-25 11:14:24
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In this video I show the most used Operating Systems on consumer personal computers and mobile devices


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