Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 9th Sep 2002 22:25 UTC
In the News OneStat.com, today reported that Microsoft's Windows operating system has a global usage share of 97.46 percent. Microsoft's Windows still dominates the global operating system market. The global usage share of for Apple's Macintosh operating system is 1.43 percent and is the second most popular operating system in the world. The three most popular operating systems according to OneStat are: 1. Windows 97.46%, 2. Macintosh 1.43%, 3. Linux 0.26%. All numbers are an average of the last 2 months. The other big statistics company, StatMarket, placed (in June 2002) Microsoft at around 95%, MacOS at 2.4% and Linux around 0.35%.
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Well _that_ would be interesting news. ;)
I would also be interested to know how many people have Linux at least installed on one computer and how many people have MacOS at least installed on one computer. But how to get reliable statistics? You could only ask 50.000 people and then hope they are representative. Browser statistics, web polls and selling statistics don't cut it of course.