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Market share held by PC operating systems in the United States 2012-2018, by month

Market share held by the leading computer operating systems in the United States from January 2012 to April 2018

The data illustrates the market share of computer operating systems in the U.S. from January 2012 to April 2018. In April 2018, 62.34% of desktop PCs, tablets and consoles were operated by Windows.

Operating systems – additional information An operating system (OS) is the most important software that runs on a computer. Operating systems enable the computer software to interact with the computer hardware. They further constitute a runtime environment for every other program on the computer. In 2013, the worldwide operating system revenue totaled to about 34 billion USD, a 7.

Jan '12		14.79	3	0.35	0.01	41.16	23.48	15.62	0	0	0	0.76	0.84
Feb '12		15.21	3.11	0.36	0.01	42.48	23.03	14.32	0	0	0	0.74	0.73
Mar '12		15.48	3.36	0.39	0.02	44.02	22.3	12.68	0	0.02	0	0.79	0.94
Apr '12		15.58	3.5	0.41	0.01	44.91	21.47	12.09	0	0.11	0	0.82	1.09
May '12		15.34	3.79	0.47	0.02	45.84	20.56	11.95	0	0.11	0	0.81	1.12
Jun '12		14	3.93	0.49	0.01	47.62	19.49	12.41	0	0.14	0	0.78	1.11
Jul '12		13.61	4.26	0.5	0.02	48.86	18.09	12.46	0	0.16	0	0.86	1.19
Aug '12		14.42	4.47	0.51	0.02	49.72	16.84	11.91	0	0.18	0	0.82	1.11
Sep '12		15.05	4.77	0.56	0.03	49.36	16.42	11.67	0	0.21	0	0.88	1.04
Oct '12		15.38	4.85	0.6	0.02	50.39	15.64	10.94	0	0.26	0	0.89	1.02
Nov '12		15.19	4.98	0.69	0.03	50.35	15.08	10.63	0	1.16	0	0.86	1.05
Dec '12		14.9	5.34	1.11	0.03	49.9	14.57	10.31	0	2.15	0	0.83	0.85
Jan '13		14.64	5.69	1.41	0.05	49.34	14.28	9.99	0	2.83	0	1.03	0.72
Feb '13		14.53	6.22	1.44	0.06	48.51	14.16	9.7	0	3.46	0	1.17	0.75
Mar '13		13.93	6.27	1.3	0.06	49.14	13.63	9.25	0	4.4	0	1.21	0.82
Apr '13		12.03	5	1.04	0.06	53.63	11.19	9.18	0	5.46	0	1.41	1.03
May '13		12.46	5.08	1.08	0.06	51.91	11.72	8.76	0	5.76	0	1.97	1.18
Jun '13		14.16	6.02	1.36	0.07	47.92	11.89	8.5	0	6.5	0	2.31	1.27
Jul '13		14.1	6.52	1.53	0.09	47.32	11.67	8.34	0.03	7.3	0	1.97	1.14
Aug '13		13.64	6.15	1.51	0.09	46.58	13.14	8.29	0.03	7.51	0	1.85	1.22
Sep '13		12.55	5.84	1.42	0.11	46.58	14.69	8.5	0.03	7.63	0	1.38	1.26
Oct '13		12.37	5.75	1.49	0.13	46.9	14.11	8.58	0.29	7.71	0	1.44	1.22
Nov '13		12.63	6.4	1.79	0.15	47.29	13.07	7.49	1.27	7.26	0	1.52	1.16
Dec '13		14.55	7.93	2.63	0.32	44.27	11.68	5.67	2.68	7.48	0	1.73	1.06
Jan '14		15.56	8.79	3.04	0.45	42.67	10.72	5.01	3.96	7.05	0	1.85	0.9
Feb '14		15.99	8.88	2.16	0.53	43.41	9.45	4.79	4.78	6.95	0	1.9	1.16
Mar '14		14.98	8.55	1.74	0.53	41.87	13.3	4.4	5.09	6.46	0	1.76	1.31
Apr '14		15.36	8.18	1.68	0.55	43.24	11.36	4.33	5.89	6.22	0	2.03	1.15
May '14		14.91	8.16	1.65	0.57	42.88	11.12	4.31	7.06	5.98	0	2.14	1.23
Jun '14		14.02	8.78	1.88	0.53	41.64	12.47	4.16	7.2	5.98	0	2.02	1.33
Jul '14		13.63	8.82	1.8	0.49	42.19	11.42	4.75	7.38	6.24	0	2.1	1.18
Aug '14		14.37	10.11	1.95	0.57	42.08	8.94	4.43	8.35	5.9	0	2.16	1.16
Sep '14		14.72	10.32	1.81	0.68	40.54	10.74	3.86	8.67	5.27	0	2.21	1.18
Oct '14		15.48	9.57	1.83	0.77	41.47	9.22	3.52	10.34	4.36	0.01	2.18	1.27
Nov '14		14.88	9.51	2.12	0.85	43.86	5.48	4.11	12.21	3.3	0.01	1.98	1.69
Dec '14		12.47	8.32	1.99	0.75	41.37	12.26	4.47	11.58	3.27	0.01	2.03	1.49
Jan '15		14.76	9.86	2.51	1.01	41.11	6.71	3.45	13.99	2.82	0.04	2.25	1.51
Feb '15		14.75	10.02	2.73	1.03	39.68	7.84	3.16	14.28	2.7	0.08	2.32	1.43
Mar '15		16.39	9.22	2.29	1.03	40.38	5.87	2.82	14.94	2.88	0.09	2.84	1.26
Apr '15		16.58	8	1.79	1.05	41.09	6.07	2.6	15.45	2.97	0.1	3.12	1.21
May '15		19.48	7.65	1.94	1.09	39.75	5.75	2.54	15.05	2.64	0.12	2.7	1.31
Jun '15		17.56	8.05	2.04	0.77	41.36	5	2.79	15.71	2.34	0.14	2.7	1.51
Jul '15		16.41	9.9	2.34	0.76	40.75	3.82	2.72	16.55	2.17	0.33	2.26	1.98
Aug '15		15.19	10.27	2.24	0.95	39.7	3.61	2.74	13.59	1.89	5.64	2.15	2.03
Sep '15		15.55	9.54	2.1	1.41	39.24	3.8	2.45	12.48	1.7	7.82	2	1.9
Oct '15		15.52	9.04	2.22	1.66	38.79	3.79	2.36	11.86	1.65	9.01	1.76	2.35
Nov '15		15.21	8.95	2.15	1.63	38.12	4.13	2.34	11.68	1.7	9.75	1.59	2.73
Dec '15		17.06	8.55	2.1	1.6	35.5	4.2	2.47	10.55	2.15	11.51	1.38	2.92
Jan '16	70.22	13.45	8.59	2.21	1.57									2.33
Feb '16	68.89	13.94	8.86	2.43	1.78									2.49
Mar '16	70.23	13.78	8.61	2.51	1.72									1.69
Apr '16	69.93	13.74	8.48	2.41	1.73									1.92
May '16	68.59	14.03	9.04	2.55	1.91									2.28
Jun '16	67.95	14.66	9.11	2.7	1.21									2.73
Jul '16	65.2	15.11	10.17	3.07	1.08									3.57
Aug '16	65.26	15.38	9.69	2.81	1.28									3.87
Sep '16	64.58	15.39	9.21	2.54	2.19									4.4
Oct '16	61.51	17.8	10.23	2.64	2.59									3.74
Nov '16	62.31	17.54	11.01	2.8	2.79									1.95
Dec '16	63.44	16.92	11.21	3.04	2.63									1.09
Jan '17	63.99	16.6	11.28	3.14	2.59									0.83
Feb '17	62.8	17.14	11.62	3.24	2.84									0.69
Mar '17	62.55	17.03	11.9	3.39	2.9									0.65
Apr '17	62.02	17.79	11.44	3.33	2.6									0.75
May '17	62.92	17.17	11.04	3.25	2.83									1.02
Jun '17	63.69	16.58	11.62	3.75	1.61									0.81
Jul '17	61.81	16.81	12.69	4.24	1.39									0.96
Aug '17	61.72	17.81	11.72	3.81	1.8									1.07
Sep '17	60.85	17.52	10.76	3.16	2.86									0.9
Oct '17	62.8	17.86	9.78	2.92	3.16									0.41
Nov '17	63.02	18.29	10.16	2.92	3.21									0.44
Dec '17	62.87	18.88	9.97	3.09	2.85									0.54
Jan '18	64.71	17.62	9.35	3.37	2.83									0.65
Feb '18	66.05	15.77	9.17	3.4	3.29									0.78
Mar '18	62.97	16.84	10.64	3.19	3.55									1.12
Apr '18	62.34	17.64	10.31	3.36	3.63									0.9

Market share held by PC operating systems in the United States 2012-2018, by month

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