Talk about bad timing. Right when all the world's high tech media are pointing their sights at Microsoft for tomorrow's Windows 8 release, the research and advisory firm, Gartner, has published a study claiming that in four years Android will have overtaken Windows.
With the success of smartphone and tablet sales, Android has rocketed to the rank of number one operating system for smartphones, where it has garnered 65% of the market share, and number two for tablets, falling behind iOS, which holds 65% of that market share.
As Gartner tells it, by 2016 Google's operating system will be on more devices than Microsoft's, with 2.3 billion Android devices and 2.18 billion Windows devices, due primarily to Microsoft's delay in establishing itself on the segment that is currently driving the computing market: mobile devices (Microsoft holds just 3% of the smartphone market share).
Gartner also reiterated its position that Google's business model (in which it supplies phone brands with its operating system for free and makes its income on services and advertising found on the platform) is part of what has made the company the market leader in a matter of a couple years.
Gartner even predicted that Windows 8 will not have the success Microsoft is hoping for—90% of companies will apparently not make the switch until 2015—and that, at best, it will come in third place on the tablet market, falling behind Android and iOS.
With the success of smartphone and tablet sales, Android has rocketed to the rank of number one operating system for smartphones, where it has garnered 65% of the market share, and number two for tablets, falling behind iOS, which holds 65% of that market share.
As Gartner tells it, by 2016 Google's operating system will be on more devices than Microsoft's, with 2.3 billion Android devices and 2.18 billion Windows devices, due primarily to Microsoft's delay in establishing itself on the segment that is currently driving the computing market: mobile devices (Microsoft holds just 3% of the smartphone market share).
Gartner also reiterated its position that Google's business model (in which it supplies phone brands with its operating system for free and makes its income on services and advertising found on the platform) is part of what has made the company the market leader in a matter of a couple years.
Windows 8: Third Place on the Tablet Market
Another obstacle for Microsoft, which will be presenting its new Windows 8 OS tomorrow and its new smartphone OS, Windows Phone 8, on Monday, is its 8% third-quarter drop in computer sales, thanks to a growing consumer penchant for mobile devices.Gartner even predicted that Windows 8 will not have the success Microsoft is hoping for—90% of companies will apparently not make the switch until 2015—and that, at best, it will come in third place on the tablet market, falling behind Android and iOS.
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