Windows 8 jumps past Apple’s OS X with 7.4% market share

It hasn’t been nearly as successful as Microsoft hoped and promised a year ago, but the Windows 8 platform continues to inch forward in market share, most recently surpassing the overall installed base for Apple’s Mac OS X.

The latest figures from Net Applications show Windows 8 with a 7.4 percent share of all desktop OS web traffic for August. That’s up from the 5.4 percent share the OS held at the beginning of August, a jump of two percentage points.