IDC: Microsoft Windows will lose dominance in 2007
Recently, IDC was responsible for the Vice President of Asia Pacific Computing System Research, said Microsoft will lose the dominance of the client operating system market after a few years. SAXENA was published in the IDC trend meeting held in Singapore on April 22. He said that although Microsoft's Windows series platform currently occupies approximately 90% of the global client operating system market, with more and more new equipment, Microsoft's market share will be apparent from 2007. decline.
SAXENA believes that this product does not disappear in the operating system, but its future development will never tend to a single platform. The working and load of different nature will make different needs of the operating system, and the application scope of new equipment is increasingly expanded will cause Microsoft's market share. According to IDC's predictive numbers, by 2007, the Windows operating system for PC will account for 58% of the client operating system market; the Symbian operating system for communication equipment will account for 17% of the market share; for communication equipment Windows will account for 6% of the market share; Linux for digital video recorders will account for 5% of the market share. According to the definition of IDC, only the smartphone that can run the application can have a true operating system.
Saxena also said that future server markets will continue to maintain a variety of operating systems coexist. Among them, various versions of UNIX account for 36% of the market share, Windows accounts for 35% of the market share, and Linux accounts for 15% of the market share.
SAXENA said that the complexity of enterprise IT systems will seriously trouble the complexity of IT technical managers because of widely used devices, which will appear in the next few years. By 2012, the information transmitted by the client device to the data center will account for approximately 45% of the traffic, and the embedded equipment involved will be up to billion. The root factor promoting this development is still an increase in speed, increasing efficiency, reduced cost and improvement of business needs.
