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areppim line chart and statistics of trends of Operating systems market share in Africa since 2008. Microsoft operating systems lead the African computer OS market, occupying the top three places with 56% market share for Win7, 19% for WinXP, and 8% for Win8. Apple's MacOSX gets 5% and Linux stays at 0.7%.

Microsoft operating systems lead the African computer OS market, occupying the top three places with 56% market share for Win7, 19% for WinXP, and 8% for Win8. Apple's MacOSX gets 5% and Linux stays at 0.7%.

Computer Operating System Percentage Market Share — Africa
(As of May 2015)

Date	WinXP	Win7	WinVista	Win8	OS X	Win8.1	Linux	Unknown	Win2003	iOS	Android	Win2000	WinNT	Win10	Other
2008-07	93.25	0	4.69	0	0.55	0	0.2	0	0.25	0	0	0.67	0.01	0	0.39
2008-08	91.15	0	6.44	0	0.9	0	0.25	0	0.3	0	0	0.66	0.01	0	0.29
2008-09	88.76	0	8.46	0	1	0	0.32	0	0.39	0	0	0.8	0.01	0	0.26
2008-10	90.32	0	7.47	0	0.71	0	0.26	0	0.32	0	0	0.68	0.01	0	0.24
2008-11	91.49	0	6.79	0	0.52	0	0.23	0	0.23	0	0	0.53	0	0	0.19
2008-12	91.1	0	7.25	0	0.54	0	0.23	0.03	0.2	0	0	0.48	0	0	0.17
2009-01	91.14	0	7.21	0	0.5	0	0.21	0.11	0.21	0	0	0.45	0	0	0.17
2009-02	90.82	0.17	7.3	0	0.56	0	0.23	0.07	0.2	0	0	0.49	0	0	0.16
2009-03	90.13	0.26	7.99	0	0.56	0	0.25	0.04	0.21	0	0	0.39	0	0	0.15
2009-04	89.45	0.39	8.55	0	0.6	0	0.28	0.05	0.22	0	0	0.33	0	0	0.13
2009-05	87.43	0.65	10.05	0	0.63	0	0.37	0.13	0.22	0	0	0.31	0.05	0	0.16
2009-06	87.89	0.81	9.34	0	0.65	0	0.38	0.16	0.24	0	0	0.3	0.07	0	0.17
2009-07	87.49	0.98	9.76	0	0.67	0	0.37	0.04	0.22	0	0	0.28	0.05	0	0.15
2009-08	86.29	1.38	10.59	0	0.71	0	0.36	0.04	0.24	0	0	0.24	0.03	0	0.12
2009-09	85.68	1.8	10.86	0	0.71	0	0.36	0.04	0.23	0	0	0.23	0	0	0.08
2009-10	85.2	2.27	10.81	0	0.75	0	0.37	0.05	0.24	0	0	0.24	0	0	0.08
2009-11	83.92	3.41	10.88	0	0.79	0	0.39	0.1	0.23	0	0	0.2	0	0	0.07
2009-12	82.59	4.96	10.69	0	0.76	0	0.32	0.2	0.23	0	0	0.19	0	0	0.06
2010-01	80.69	6.55	10.91	0	0.87	0	0.34	0.17	0.23	0	0	0.18	0	0	0.05
2010-02	79.21	8	10.86	0	0.99	0	0.39	0.05	0.26	0	0	0.19	0	0	0.05
2010-03	77.4	9.26	11.19	0	1.14	0	0.42	0.06	0.28	0	0	0.21	0	0	0.05
2010-04	76.48	10.58	10.72	0	1.15	0	0.42	0.14	0.27	0	0	0.19	0	0	0.05
2010-05	75.57	11.94	10.22	0	1.16	0	0.44	0.18	0.26	0	0	0.18	0	0	0.05
2010-06	75.18	12.95	9.74	0	1.16	0	0.43	0.05	0.25	0.02	0	0.16	0.01	0	0.04
2010-07	74.11	14.28	9.5	0	1.18	0	0.43	0.04	0.25	0.03	0	0.14	0	0	0.04
2010-08	72.07	16.08	9.62	0	1.27	0	0.45	0.04	0.26	0.04	0	0.14	0	0	0.03
2010-09	71.17	17.49	9.11	0	1.27	0	0.44	0.04	0.26	0.05	0	0.13	0.01	0	0.03
2010-10	70.22	18.67	8.71	0	1.34	0	0.45	0.06	0.33	0.07	0	0.11	0.01	0	0.03
2010-11	69.26	20.17	8.18	0	1.38	0	0.46	0.05	0.28	0.08	0	0.11	0	0	0.03
2010-12	68.09	21.56	7.99	0	1.36	0	0.45	0.05	0.24	0.11	0	0.1	0.01	0	0.03
2011-01	66.5	22.97	7.95	0	1.53	0	0.46	0.05	0.26	0.15	0.01	0.1	0.01	0	0.03
2011-02	66.18	24.23	7.11	0	1.47	0	0.45	0.05	0.23	0.14	0.01	0.09	0.01	0	0.03
2011-03	65.35	25.64	6.49	0	1.48	0	0.46	0.06	0.24	0.16	0.01	0.08	0.01	0	0.02
2011-04	64.84	26.71	6.04	0	1.41	0	0.44	0.05	0.21	0.18	0.02	0.06	0.01	0	0.02
2011-05	63.56	28.12	5.77	0	1.46	0	0.48	0.06	0.22	0.21	0.03	0.05	0.01	0	0.02
2011-06	62.62	29.11	5.61	0	1.52	0	0.5	0.06	0.21	0.26	0.04	0.05	0.01	0	0.02
2011-07	61.43	30.46	5.4	0	1.53	0	0.48	0.05	0.21	0.31	0.05	0.05	0.01	0	0.02
2011-08	57.65	33.56	5.61	0	1.82	0	0.53	0.03	0.22	0.41	0.06	0.07	0.01	0	0.03
2011-09	56.73	34.64	5.36	0	1.83	0	0.52	0.06	0.23	0.47	0.07	0.07	0.01	0	0.03
2011-10	54.34	36.62	5.3	0	2.01	0	0.59	0.1	0.23	0.59	0.12	0.07	0.01	0	0.03
2011-11	53.22	37.91	5.03	0	1.99	0	0.61	0.06	0.23	0.7	0.14	0.06	0.01	0	0.03
2011-12	52.33	38.9	4.87	0	1.89	0	0.57	0.11	0.22	0.85	0.17	0.06	0.01	0	0.03
2012-01	50.6	40.48	4.65	0	2.01	0	0.62	0.13	0.22	0.99	0.21	0.06	0.01	0	0.03
2012-02	49.9	41.73	4.25	0	1.92	0	0.62	0.12	0.2	0.96	0.21	0.05	0.01	0	0.02
2012-03	48.67	43.29	3.96	0.05	1.74	0	0.58	0.31	0.19	0.92	0.21	0.05	0.02	0	0.02
2012-04	47.82	44.2	3.65	0.36	1.79	0	0.57	0.05	0.17	1.04	0.25	0.04	0.02	0	0.03
2012-05	46.59	45.76	3.19	0.38	1.86	0	0.58	0.04	0.18	1.07	0.26	0.04	0.02	0	0.03
2012-06	47.05	45.82	2.83	0.51	1.67	0	0.5	0.04	0.17	1.03	0.27	0.04	0.02	0	0.06
2012-07	46.18	46.52	2.69	0.54	1.76	0	0.52	0.04	0.16	1.18	0.32	0.03	0.02	0	0.03
2012-08	44.43	49.29	2.79	0.62	2.04	0	0.56	0.03	0.16	0	0.01	0.03	0.02	0	0.01
2012-09	43.77	49.66	2.85	0.65	2.23	0	0.58	0.03	0.16	0	0	0.04	0.02	0	0.01
2012-10	43.16	50.23	2.72	0.71	2.3	0	0.62	0.03	0.16	0	0.01	0.04	0.02	0	0.01
2012-11	42.99	50.26	2.54	1.15	2.2	0	0.61	0.03	0.15	0	0.02	0.04	0.02	0	0.01
2012-12	43.13	49.92	2.4	1.67	2.04	0	0.56	0.03	0.15	0	0.02	0.04	0.03	0	0
2013-01	41.83	50.77	2.21	2.18	2.14	0	0.58	0.03	0.15	0	0.02	0.04	0.03	0	0
2013-02	41.6	50.71	2.1	2.59	2.1	0	0.6	0.03	0.15	0	0.03	0.05	0.04	0	0.01
2013-03	41.54	50.55	1.98	3.06	2.02	0	0.58	0.03	0.15	0	0.02	0.04	0.02	0	0
2013-04	40.33	51.14	1.96	3.64	2.07	0	0.59	0.03	0.14	0	0.03	0.04	0.02	0	0
2013-05	38.83	51.98	1.85	4.24	2.16	0	0.64	0.03	0.13	0	0.06	0.04	0.03	0	0
2013-06	37.43	52.75	1.78	4.8	2.25	0	0.64	0.04	0.14	0	0.11	0.04	0.03	0	0
2013-07	34.98	54.22	1.78	5.45	2.45	0.01	0.72	0.03	0.13	0	0.17	0.03	0.02	0	0.01
2013-08	33.92	55	1.65	6.01	2.24	0.02	0.73	0.02	0.11	0	0.23	0.03	0.02	0	0.01
2013-09	33.93	54.43	1.63	6.33	2.44	0.05	0.69	0.02	0.11	0	0.3	0.03	0.02	0	0.01
2013-10	33.11	54.41	1.62	6.6	2.45	0.29	0.88	0.03	0.12	0	0.42	0.04	0.03	0	0.01
2013-11	32.22	54.81	1.54	6.61	2.4	0.69	1.04	0.04	0.11	0	0.46	0.04	0.02	0	0.02
2013-12	32.24	54.41	1.46	6.57	2.41	1.19	0.81	0.03	0.1	0	0.7	0.03	0.02	0	0.02
2014-01	31.89	54.23	1.38	6.57	2.52	1.64	0.77	0.03	0.1	0	0.8	0.03	0.03	0	0.02
2014-02	31.7	54.56	1.26	6.8	2.42	1.94	0.74	0.15	0.09	0	0.22	0.03	0.03	0	0.05
2014-03	30.5	54.48	1.26	7.08	2.63	2.66	0.87	0.3	0.1	0	0	0.03	0.03	0	0.06
2014-04	29.03	54.57	1.18	7.31	2.87	3.6	0.93	0.32	0.09	0	0	0.03	0.02	0	0.06
2014-05	27.98	54.61	1.1	8.1	2.89	3.66	1.1	0.35	0.09	0	0	0.03	0.02	0	0.06
2014-06	27.83	55.3	1.01	7.56	2.67	3.73	1.18	0.52	0.09	0	0	0.02	0.02	0	0.06
2014-07	23.7	57.79	1.75	7.84	3.2	3.96	0.98	0.61	0.07	0	0	0.02	0.01	0	0.07
2014-08	22.83	56.97	1.93	8.57	3.48	4.63	0.95	0.44	0.08	0	0	0.02	0.01	0	0.08
2014-09	23.73	56.5	1.72	7.93	3.53	5.04	0.83	0.54	0.08	0	0	0.02	0.01	0	0.08
2014-10	21.97	57.03	1.87	7.78	3.79	5.61	1	0.73	0.07	0	0	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.08
2014-11	20.88	57.72	1.93	7.52	3.88	6.31	0.84	0.74	0.06	0	0	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.08
2014-12	21.29	58.06	1.31	6.35	3.59	7.43	0.9	0.88	0.07	0	0	0.02	0.01	0.03	0.06
2015-01	21.03	58.02	1.49	6.21	3.76	7.64	0.83	0.81	0.07	0	0	0.02	0.01	0.07	0.05
2015-02	20.58	57.13	1.69	6.47	4.09	8.1	0.81	0.82	0.07	0	0	0.02	0.01	0.17	0.04
2015-03	19.47	56.79	1.81	6.37	4.5	8.95	0.9	0.92	0.06	0	0	0.02	0.01	0.18	0.05
2015-04	19.16	56.61	2.39	6.87	4.69	8.19	0.83	0.96	0.05	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.17	0.04
2015-05	18.96	56.03	3.14	7.55	5.07	7.3	0.68	1.03	0.04	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.13	0.04
Average change rate (last 12 months)	-3.2%	0.2%	9.1%	-0.6%	4.8%	5.9%	-3.9%	9.4%	-6.5%	n/a	n/a	-8.7%	-5.6%	n/a	-3.3%

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Computer Operating System Percentage Market Share — Africa(As of May 2015)

Computer Operating System Percentage Market Share — Africa
(As of May 2015)