Apple and 64 bit apps‹the latest in this series
- From: Mike <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:36:14 -0500
http://tinyurl.com/67575w
Road to Mac OS X Snow Leopard: the future of 64-bit app
(From Apple Insider)
"Window's 64-bit problems explain why Microsoft reported only seeing
5.18% of the traffic to its Windows Update servers as coming from users
of Windows Vista x64 this June, a year and a half after Vista went on
sale, and three years after the company introduced its x64 platform.
Microsoft reported this as a huge "percentage of increase" in 64-bit
users over its previous figures which were even worse, but it really
indicates something far more interesting: the installed base and market
for 64-bit Vista is smaller than 64-bit Mac OS X.
Apple said this summer that 89% of its installed base is running Tiger
or Leopard. And while an increasing number of PCs are shipping with
64-bit hardware, all of Apple's Mac models are now 64-bit and have been
for nearly two years. Apple is also growing at around 40% while the PC
industry as a whole is plodding along at a much slower pace. Gartner
tells us that 70% of new PCs are being sold to the enterprise, a market
segment that takes Vista off and installs its own image (keeping Vista's
enterprise adoption rate at an abysmal 8.8% in June). Rejection of
Vista, combined with Microsoft's less than stellar 32-bit compatibility,
is resulting in the Windows PC market only slowly moving to 64-bit
hardware, and even then often still running a 32-bit OS.
Apple has 3.5% of the worldwide market for PCs and servers, and 8% of
the US market. What percentage of the world wide market for PCs is
hitting Microsoft's Windows Update servers? Apparently not much of the
enterprise market (70%), where companies provide their own Windows
Update proxy servers for their own PCs. And scratch out the botnet PCs
and anyone who doesn't update regularly or automatically. That leaves it
pretty clear that only a minor fraction of a minority subset of PCs are
running 64-bit Vista.
Valve's Steam, which runs surveys of its serious PC gamers, reports only
3.3% of its users are running any version of 64-bit Windows. Gamers tend
to buy premium machines and would be among those mostly likely to
benefit from 64-bit Windows; a full 15% were running Vista. Still, that
affluent, early adopter, power user crowd had less 64-bit representation
than Macs have in the entire worldwide market of PCs and servers."
--
Mike
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