Windows 11’s market share plummets as Windows 10 surges
At the end of July 2025, Microsoft reached a big milestone and came one small step closer to its goal of making Windows 11 the most popular version of Windows. For the first time ever,…
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Linux market share just crossed 5%, hitting a new milestone
According to the latest numbers from Statcounter, Linux-based desktop operating systems have reached a new milestone, sitting at a market share of 5.03 percent in the US. It’s a monumental moment as it’s the first…
U.S. PC market stalls in Q2, anticipating tariffs
PC sales worldwide have steadily grown since late last year. The U.S. PC market, however, has crashed back to earth. IDC’s preliminary numbers for the second quarter of 2025 show flat year-over-year growth of 0…
Windows 11 has nearly caught up to Windows 10 with market share spike
According to the latest statistics from Statcounter, 47.8 percent of desktop Windows users are now running Windows 11, which means that the operating system has pretty much caught up with its predecessor Windows 10, which…
Nvidia extends desktop GPU market share beyond 90%
When it comes to desktop graphics cards, Nvidia rules the roost even while gamers complain of rising prices and lowering value. According to a research firm, Big Green has more than 90 percent of the…
SSD cooling market heats up as xMEMS enters the fray
SSDs behave like any other silicon component in your PC: The faster they run, the more heat they typically generate. It’s enough that a small ecosystem of SSD coolers has sprung up. Now, another fanless…
Weirdly, tariffs are expected to grow the PC market
Researcher IDC has unexpectedly concluded that the current administration’s see-sawing tariff plan is going to actually help the PC market grow in 2025. IDC said Wednesday that it now expects that the PC market will…
Game developers are losing faith in VR as a gaming market
According to one late 2024 survey conducted by the Game Developer Collective, over half of the game developers surveyed consider the VR market to be stagnant or in decline. Worse still, barely a quarter still…
Snapdragon claims 10 percent of the PC market
Qualcomm said Wednesday that it has made strong progress against its goals for Snapdragon PCs, and that its ongoing litigation with Arm had wrapped up. Specifically, according to Circana — which owns the NPD Group…
The PC market grew only 1.3% in 2024
According to one analyst firm, the combined shipment of desktop and laptop computers in 2024 was 245.3 million units. That’s a big number — a new computer for one out of every thirty or so…
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