Operating systems: market share in Germany 2023

In January 2023, the operating system Windows had a market share of over 76 percent. The second largest share was held by MacOSX.

Market share of the leading operating system editions in Germany from January 2009 to January 2023

Characteristic	Windows	MacOSX	Linux
Jan 23	76.62%	17.32%	2.64%
Nov 22	77.66%	17.16%	2.69%
Sep 22	77.17%	18.32%	2.13%
Jul 22	75.96%	18.55%	2.61%
May 22	75.68%	19.32%	2.43%
Mar 22	76.42%	18.9%	2.47%
Jan 22	76.67%	17.35%	4.19%
No 21	78.82%	17.01%	2%
Sep 21	79.28%	16.55%	2.35%
Jul 21	74.78%	18.76%	2.79%
May 21	75.95%	19.1%	2.33%
Mar 21	77.64%	18.4%	2.19%
Jan 21	78.77%	17.58%	2.09%
Nov 20	79.95%	16.24%	2.16%
Sep 20	76.74%	18.19%	3.38%
Jul 20	77.07%	17.15%	3.87%
May 20	78.18%	17.49%	2.96%
Mar 20	75.59%	19.04%	4.14%
Jan 20	77.53%	17.68%	3.45%
Nov 19	77.5%	17.39%	3.52%
Sep 19	80.89%	13.79%	2.93%
Jul 19	78.16%	13.29%	3.44%
May 19	78.8%	14.28%	3.45%
Mar 19	80.19%	13.95%	3.37%
Jan 19	77.85%	13.02%	3.42%
Nov 18*	69.8%	12.24%	3.22%
Sep 18	81.88%	13.51%	3.34%
Jul 18	81.61%	13.56%	3.33%
Nov 17	81.25%	13.67%	3.71%
Jan 18	80.9%	14.03%	3.54%
Sep 17	81.72%	13.93%	3.18%
Mar 18	81.36%	14.1%	3.65%
May 18	81.18%	13.05%	4.05%
Jul 17	80.43%	13.33%	4.15%
May 17	81.08%	12.92%	4.02%
Mar 17	81.79%	12.73%	3.79%
Jan 17	82.35%	12.38%	3.46%
Nov 16	82.17%	11.89%	3.81%
Sep 16	81.97%	10.9%	3.37%
Jul 16	82.51%	10.82%	3.56%
May 16	83.98%	10.7%	3.04%
Mar 16	84.85%	10.38%	2.89%
Jan 16	84.52%	10.62%	2.59%
Nov 15	84.95%	10.78%	2.65%
Sep 15	86.15%	10.04%	2.89%
Jul 15	87.18%	9.14%	2.77%
May 15	86.86%	9.51%	2.97%
Mar 15	86.52%	9.97%	2.95%
Jan 15	87.34%	9.51%	2.64%
Nov 14	87.75%	9.27%	2.51%
Sep 14	88.5%	8.58%	2.44%
Jul 14	88.76%	8.46%	2.45%
May 14	88.19%	9.03%	2.46%
Mar 14	88.61%	8.86%	2.29%
Jan 14	87.57%	8.54%	2.85%
Nov 13	88.75%	7.66%	2.87%
Sep 13	88.61%	7.83%	3.06%
Jul 13	88.77%	7.76%	3.2%
May 13	89.22%	7.78%	2.8%
Mar 13	90.72%	7%	2.17%
Jan 13	90.34%	7.23%	2.2%
Nov 12	90.4%	7.28%	2.24%
Sep 12	90.64%	7.04%	2.24%
Jul 12	88.58%	6.8%	2.18%
May 12	88.85%	6.91%	2.16%
Mar 12	89.68%	6.67%	1.9%
Jan 12	89.98%	6.77%	1.74%
Nov 11	90.69%	6.42%	1.74%
Sep 11	91.74%	5.72%	1.61%
Jul 11	91.41%	5.98%	1.62%
May 11	91.84%	6.12%	1.37%
Mar 11	92.15%	6.03%	1.26%
Jan 11	91.8%	6.36%	1.28%
Nov 10	92.33%	6.02%	1.19%
Sep 10	92.8%	5.53%	1.19%
Jul 10	92.6%	5.27%	1.54%
May 10	92.91%	5.13%	1.46%
Mar 10	93.2%	4.97%	1.4%
Jan 10	93.58%	4.62%	1.22%
Nov 09	94.24%	4.09%	1.16%
Sep 09	94.44%	4%	1.23%
Jul 09	94.84%	3.71%	1.19%
May 09	95.12%	3.31%	1.13%
Mar 09	95.62%	3.04%	1.05%
Jan 09	95.68%	3.03%	1.01%

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Release date

February 2023

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

January 2009 to January 2023

Special properties

Desktop PCs and laptops

Supplementary notes

StatCounter gathered this data from over 386 million page views per month (as of September 2015). The source does not state information on Windows data in November 2018. The category "unknown" amounts to roughly 15 percent that month.

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