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TG Daily: "Even worse, market research firm Net Applications now estimates Microsoft’s Windows market share at less than 90%, which is still an impressive number, but a lower level than most PC users may remember.

We had to go back to Windows 3.11 to find similar market share data."

Datamation: ""There's a lot of noise around desktop virtualization, but no one has really bought into it in a big way yet," said Richard Jones, vice president and service director of data center strategies for the Burton Group, a market research firm."

Market research firm Net Applications has said in a report that Mac OS X now has a market share of 7.94%. As per their research, Mac OS X is gaining an average of 0.18% a month over the last 10 months.

The IEEE may be taking its time ratifying its 802.11n standard, but that does not appear to be slowing the momentum of the 300- to 600Mbps technology, says ABI Research.

The market research firm forecasts 802.11n access point shipment growth from 6 million this year to 88 million in 2013.