Star Windows 7 Hits 3% Market Share, Approaches 4%
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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RE[15]: Windows market share
by lemur2 on Thu 5th Nov 2009 04:59 UTC in reply to "RE[14]: Windows market share"
lemur2
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The problem is that nobody wants Linux. OEMs tried selling Linux, and the return rate was ungodly high. People wanted Windows and, when they discovered that their netbooks were preloaded with Linux, they were, like, "WTF?!? Where's my Windows?".


http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140343/Linux_s_share_of_net...

Linux's share of netbooks surging, not sagging, says analyst

Research firm's numbers contradict lower figures touted by Microsoft on Linux netbooks
By Eric Lai
November 4, 2009

Computerworld - Reports that the Linux netbook is dead or dying are incorrect, at least globally, according to an analyst firm.

Nearly one-third of the 35 million netbooks on track to ship this year will come with some variant of the free, open-source operating system, ABI Research said. The exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows, said Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI, which works out to about 11 million Linux netbooks this year.


Edited 2009-11-05 05:00 UTC

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