Microsoft’s share of the consumer market has dropped from 95% to 20% in 8 years
This chart says it all: From 2004 to 2012, Microsoft’s share of the consumer computing market has plummeted from 95% to 20%. For 20 years, thanks to the desktop PC, Microsoft enjoyed an almost complete monopoly of consumer computing — and yet today it is a minority stake holder, languishing behind Google’s 42% and Apple’s 24%.