Roughly a month ago, we reported that Android was well on its way to leapfrog Microsoft Windows to become the world’s most used operating system. In the past five years, Android has risen to ...

After less than nine years, Google's open source operating system is bigger than Windows. The numbers from last month placed Windows at 38.6% of web traffic, while Android was just behind it at 37.4%.

Still, the operating system trends have been clear since 2012. Windows is falling, while Linux-based Android is rising. If Android isn't really more popular by now, it will be shortly.

It also represents a major breakthrough for Android which held just 2.4% of global internet usage share only five years ago." Windows still is the number one worldwide operating system on desktop ...

Operating systems are the invisible engines behind every computer, smartphone, and smart device, yet many people take them ...

Android is also adaptable. Phone makers can tweak Google's operating system to offer a variety of useful features, though in doing so, they also add confusion and make it difficult for app ...

Microsoft has had trouble getting people to use its Windows Phone operating systems, however, it might make as much as $3.4 billion on Android phones.

A clear reminder of that comes with news of a report claiming that Google's Android has overtaken Windows as the internet's most used operating system.

Android is perhaps one of the most used Operating System plus framework available for what we call smartphones today. And it is poised to become an all-encompassing framework.

Android has become the most popular operating system on the Internet, taking the first place from Microsoft's Windows for the first time, according to analytics firm StatCounter. This was to be ...

However, the fact is that there’s not much in the way of geospatial apps for Android, yet. Almost all geospatial apps in existence today are built for Windows Mobile, but most people I’ve spoken to ...