Posted on 01/03/2009 8:48:34 PM PST by Swordmaker
Second record loss in two months for Microsoft; Apple posts record gain
Windows lost nearly a full percentage point of market share for the second month in a row in December, pushing Microsoft Corp.'s operating system to a new low, an Internet measurement company reported yesterday.
Meanwhile, Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X posted a record gain that brought it close to a 10% share for the first time since Net Applications Inc. began tracking operating system use.
In December, 88.7% of the people who browsed the Web sites that Net Applications monitors did so using machines powered by Windows, a 0.94 percentage point drop from November. The slide was Windows' largest in the four years that Net Applications has collected operating system data, and the second record-setting monthly loss in a row for Microsoft's software.
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The good news is that most of this malware vectoring is, to use a word, retail as opposed to wholesale. The process of getting individuals to infect their own machines is far less efficient than what can happen in the Windows world where machines can infect other machines without human interaction or awareness.
I can that the hardware diagnostic disk that comes with the puter can usually (often?) spot bad RAM.
As for your daughter losing data.. “Command S”!!
Tell her whenever you take a think break, long breath, command s - save. Especially while she’s having problems.
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