Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 9th Sep 2002 22:25 UTC
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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I can almost believe the stats... you must realize that we are talking about millions and millions of users. A smaller subset, say Apple or Linux, can't be much more than a few hundred thousand _desktop_ users. That's a bad ratio, IMHO, where monopoly trials are concerned.
But, I also have to wonder about more people like me... I have but one Windows installation out of eight different PCs/IAs. That is on my laptop (alongside of BeOS and trying to get FreeBSD on there). However, due to the stinkin' winmodem, I'm only online with Windows from the laptop. Sure, I browse with BeOS/Net+ from my desktop(s), but when I can't get to a site that has JavaScript/et al, I have to resort to Windows (and that seems like a more common occurance these days with the larger sites - likely the ones the statistic companies watch). At work, I'm forced to use Windows to browse the internet.
I'm online, I'd guess, at least 50% of the time in Windows - yet it is only 1 of 3 OSes I have on but 1 of 8 machines. Go figure. :/