It's an impressive milestone for Google — For the first time in decades, Android has been crowned as the world's most popular operating system in terms of Internet usage, knocking Microsoft Windows off the top spot.



According to a new report from web traffic analytics firm StatCounter, Google's Android is the most popular operating system worldwide in terms of total internet usage across desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile combined.

Looking at overall internet usage, Android represented 37.93 percent of the global OS Internet usage market share in March, while Windows accounted for 37.91 percent.


Although Windows is still not far behind, Android taking the lead is being described by StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen as a "milestone in technology history."

This achievement is due to the fact that mobile devices are used to connect to the Internet far more frequently than desktops and laptops, and people are spending more time on smartphones surfing the Internet than on desktops.

The report showed that Windows is still holding a 39.5 percent of the Internet usage market share against Android's 25.7 percent in North America, and 51.7 percent against 29.2 percent in Europe.

Android leads in Asia with a vast majority of internet usage in countries including India (79 %), Indonesia (72 %) and China (57 %).


However, one should keep it in mind that Windows still accounts for 84 percent of the worldwide desktop operating system market in March.

"Windows won the desktop war, but the battlefield moved on," Cullen noted. "It will be difficult for Microsoft to make inroads in mobile, but the next paradigm shift might give it the opportunity to regain dominance. That could be in Augmented Reality, AI, Voice or Continuum."
Statcounter collects its data with the help of tracking codes installed on websites that record page views.

The latest Statcounter's findings are based on 2.5 million websites that the firm claims generate over 15 billion monthly page views. The chart also highlights the internet usage of Apple’s operating system as well.

During March 2017, the users of Apple's mobile operating system (iOS) were three times more active on the internet than users of Apple's desktop operating system (Mac OS X).




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It's a well deserved position, aside main jobs like organizing and programming i don't see any need for me using a laptop anymore, me in particular i have no need for windows.

maybe in the nearest future when technology takes another turn i might

Abudu2000:
It's a well deserved position, aside main jobs like organizing and programming i don't see any need for me using a laptop anymore, me in particular i have no need for windows.

maybe in the nearest future when technology takes another turn i might

true!

Abudu2000:
It's a well deserved position, aside main jobs like organizing and programming i don't see any need for me using a laptop anymore, me in particular i have no need for windows.

maybe in the nearest future when technology takes another turn i might

The bolded is very important and as such would be difficult to take over by mobile phones.

These days, most young people in Nigeria lack the requisites computer skills for employment. Miniature devices such as phones have made them lazy that once they know how to do face book, etc on phones they believe they are computer literate.

These technologies more or less are making people lazier and distracting them from the real thing.

The owners of the technologies are busy with their (Mac book) laptops at Silicon Valley.

Before we deviate, I say congratulations to Google and kudos to Microsoft for retaining their kingship of PC OS.