The diagrams below show the market dominance of three identical operating system (OS) used by computers across the world in 4 years: 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Overall, after 4 years, OS1 market share witnessed a sharp rise, which led to its complete dominance in 2015. Meanwhile, OS2’s and OS3’s data stayed relatively stable, and that of the others declined significantly.
In 2012, OS1 obtained one-fifth of the world’s computer operating system usage, and eventually witnessed a soar in the following years. The most impressive change happened in the next year, 2013, when OS1’s dominance rose by 18 percent. After that, it inclined to 47 percent and 52 percent in 2013 and 2014, respectively.
In contrast, the market share of OS2 and OS3 stayed almost the same after four years. In the beginning of the period, OS2 and OS3 shared 17 percent and 15 percent of the demand, respectively. The number was 18 and 15 in 2015, witnessed minimal change.
Finally, as most of the market had been taken by the three major players, there are little leftover market for other operation systems to take. In 2012, only about a half of computers in the world run on the three popular systems. However, it was a clear contrast in 2015, with only 15 per 100 computers operated by other software.