Google is poised to do the 'unthinkable' and overtake Microsoft to become the #1 platform for getting online

10 March 2017

Google is poised to hit a major milestone.

Its mobile operating system (OS), Android, is on the edge of overtaking Microsoft's Windows to become the number one operating system when it comes to using the internet worldwide.

That's according to a new report from analytics company Statcounter, which has crunched the numbers showing how over the last five years, Android's growth has wiped out Windows' once-unassailable lead. (We heard about the report via 9to5Google.)

Today, Windows has 38.6% marketshare for internet usage, while Google hovers just below, at 37.4%. As recently as January 2012, Windows had 82% of global internet usage, versus Android's paltry 2.2%.

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Source - Business Insider (Written by Rob Price)