OS X Yosemite's uptake breaks 50%

[Geek-9pm]

Quotes taken from
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2892966/os-x-yosemites-uptake-breaks-50.html
By Gregg Keizer
Mar 4, 2015 1:29 PM

Apple released Yosemite four and a half months ago. ...
Apple's OS X Yosemite powered more than half of all Macs last month, according to data recently released...
By comparison, OS X Mavericks, Yosemite's predecessor...
Mavericks took 6 months to equal Yosemite's four-month mark of 51%, while Mountain Lion never made it to a majority: It topped out at 48% the month before Mavericks' debut...

This could either mean Apple users are more ready to upgrad, or Apple ios seliimg a lot of new stuff at an accelerated pace.
Now let's compare Apples to Oranges.

Apple's 2013 bet to make OS X upgrades free has done what Apple said motivated its decision: Move more Mac users to new editions faster. "What's most important to us is seeing the software in the hands of as many Mac users as possible," said Craig Federighi, Apple's chief of software engineering, during the October 2013 event where he announced that OS X Mavericks would be free

So what did Microsoft do?

At the same presentation, Federighi made another promise. "Today, spending hundreds of dollars to get the most out of your computer are gone," Federighi said while a slide behind him showed the packaging for Microsoft's Windows 8 Pro, with its $199 retail price prominent.

Federighi was more prescient than he probably expected: 14 months later Microsoft announced that it would give away Windows 10 upgrades to consumers running Windows 7- and Windows 8.1-powered PCs later this year. That free upgrade offer will run for one year after Windows 10's official launch.

More importantly, Microsoft has also pledged to provide free updates and upgrades to Windows 10 for an as-yet-not-specified period that will hinge on how the Redmond, Wash. firm defines the "supported lifetime" of a device.

Windows 8 market share? One report called it 'rubbish' at about 13% which is comparable to XP, the now outdated OS. Most Windows users are currently with Windows 7.
Source:
http://betanews.com/2015/02/01/windows-8-1s-market-share-remains-utter-rubbish/
Your next computer might be a Mac. 

[BC_Programmer]

According to this Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have 3.55% and 10.49% respectively, making for a total of 14.04%.

OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) has a 1.65%; OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) has 3.55%. That's a total share of 5.2%, which is slightly less than half of the share of Windows 8.1 on it's own.

If Windows 8/8.1's market share is "rubbish" I don't know what OSX's can be called.

[camerongray]

Well, that is to be expected since OS X updates are all free and installed like any normal application update whereas upgrading to a new version of Windows is expensive.  Unless you are using a very old machine that doesn't have the hardware support for the latest version of OS X there is no reason not to upgrade whereas for Windows, most people would rather not spend around $100 to upgrade from Windows 7 since there is no massive benefit and if they have an older machine with Vista or XP it's not going to be worth spending that amount of money on.

I imagine this will change when Windows 10 is available as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8.1.