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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Judging from the story synopsis, these statistics represent global usage share of all computers. This is of course totally silly since it only measured computers used to access web sites.
There are tons of computers which are in fact not used for web surfing. Computing centers (both public and corporate), server farms and friends spring to mind.
Considering that this is more like desktop OS statistics, they look fairly accurate. But the story doesn't say that it is a measure of desktops.
Booo.