Usage share of operating systems computer's installed base statistics, and actual (web) use needs not follow installed base. Also, Microsoft includes tablets (but StatCounter may also for Windows, while it wouldn't for e.g. Android). Video game store Steam publishes a monthly "Hardware & Software Survey", with the statistics below: By Q1 2018, mobile operating systems that can be found on smartphones, include Google's dominant Android (and variants) and Apple's iOS, with both combined at almost 100% market share. According to research by InsightPortal, there is a clear correlation between the GDP per capita of a country and that country's respective smartphone OS market share, Showing
SHARE Operating System SHARE Operating System The SHARE Operating System (SOS) was created in 1959 as an improvement on the General Motors GM-NAA I/O operating system, the first operating system, by the SHARE user group. The main target was to improve the sharing of programs over GM-NAA I/O. SHARE Operating System provided new methods to manage buffers and input/output devices, and, like GM-NAA I/O, allowed execution of programs written in assembly language. Initially, it worked on IBM 709 computer and its transistorized compatible successor the IBM 7090. A series of articles describing innovations in the system appears in the April, 1959, Journal of