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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by Don Cox on Tue 10th Sep 2002 12:17 UTC

"Yea I think the google stats are pretty much dead on."

How can they be? How do Google know what OS you are actually running?

All the minority OSes have to spoof on the web. There is no way that
Google can tell that I am using AmigaOS.

The only way to find out is by in-depth interviews of a sample of the
public in several countries. Those companies that could afford this
would not want to know the answers.