Linked by Quentin Hartman on Tue 8th Jul 2008 04:23 UTC
A recent study released by Net
Applications indicates that the market share of Windows among
Internet-connected devices could drop below 90% as soon as the fourth
quarter of this year. This seems to be the same report referred to earlier that showed Linux approaching a 1% use
share.
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2006-11-17
I can pull out numbers like that from my hat (or from somewhere else that is part of my body)
The questions are: Who paid for the study?
Which sites were selected as 'representative for the overall market'? How do they count the OS users? Are they using browser agent-string and if so how many agent-string do they know? How many of them don't they know and get discarded in the result? Do they filter duplicate IP/user? How?
Those numbers mean nothing to me as they are not explained. It's all opaque like if the light was switched off and they told you to go that direction as if they saw something, but they don't want to tell you what.