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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Matthew Gardiner: Is that 97.25% are moronic sheep uncapable of thinking differently(tm).
No, majority of them don't see any reason not to use an non-MS platform. My dad for example, take away Access from him, and he would try like a baby.
(He tried using AdabasD, he never liked it, saying too little features).
Asun: Here is the result from most recent poll:
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=848&aid=-1
If I take a poll from MacNN saying that Mac OS dominates the desktop world, would you buy it?
Deej: 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.
Ironically, Apple isn't considered to be Microsoft's competitor in the antitrust case, neither is Linux. (If they are considered competitors, Microsoft is no longer legally an monopoly).
TV: Bush Administration Reply...
Unless they do a rehearing (start back from square one), Linux and Apple won't be considered as competitors to Microsoft. Even if tommorrow 1 billion people start using Linux and dominates the world.