Analyst: installed base of Mac OS X users nearing 22 million
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 2, 2007 at 7:52pm
The installed based of Mac OS X users will be approximately 22 million strong by the end of March, according Bank of America analysts (as reported by AppleInsider). The figure is up by six million users since the Mac maker unwrapped its last major revision to the Mac operating system, Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”), in June 2005, analyst Keith Bachman told clients in research distributed earlier this week.
The analyst is forecasting the combined release of Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) and iLife ‘07 to generate approximately US$200 million in incremental revenue for Apple, compared to the $135 million drawn from Tiger. As a direct result of the new software releases, Bachman is projecting Apple’s software segment to grow by approximately $115 million quarterly in the June quarter to $450 million, representing 45 percent yearly growth. The firm’s September quarter should subsequently yield about 15 percent yearly growth to $360 million, he added.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
Jojo Says:
and how many millions are still using OS 9..?
Posted on March 03, 2007