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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People stay with Ms because Windows have or have support for apps they use. Companies do not port their apps, because even if it sells as well as in the Windows scene, you would still be selling to 1:50 ratio of users. Which of course does not justify the cost of doing any such ports. And all is just a circle...
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Many of these companies could team up with codeweavers and bring wine support for their applications to Linux/*BSD or any other *NIX/*BSD on x86.
When a wine compat. is done correctly, one doesn't see the difference appart from widget set differences and the cursor changing to the Windows style.