By Gregg KeizerJune 23, 2014 06:28 AM ET Computerworld - The decline of OS X Snow Leopard has accelerated in the last three months, perhaps because users have realized that Apple has stopped patching the 2009 operating system for the Mac.

From March to May, Snow Leopard lost 3.8 percentage points of its share of all Mac operating systems, according to data from metrics company Net Applications. That's the largest three-month decline for Snow Leopard since the stretch of August-October 2012, shortly after the introduction of OS X Mountain Lion, the July 2012 upgrade that was priced 33% less than the previous year's Lion.

Net Applications estimated that 15% of all Macs that went online in May ran Snow Leopard, aka OS X 10.6.

 

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