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"their results do show a drop in "Linux" in the past 4 months and a great increase in MacIntel, and I'd wager most of the 0.07% that was lost was some sort of migration in that direction."
Why?
Having spent a long time playing with this site...because its great. Why would *if* the figures are accurate. Show that Mac is taking Linux's market share.
When if could be.
After WGA people tried linux as an alternative.
People interested in OS trying out Vista
Sites used in the figures become popular with Linux users.
People finding Linux is not for them.
etc etc.
What is clear from the *these* figures is Linux is becoming increasingly popular.
*What* is interesting, that you have left out of your post is Linux, according to this site has *massive* fluctuations in Linux figures. Particularly with massive peaks in April and August, which is where you get your *last four months from* with no real explanation, as no other OS is shown to have this massive variation.
I have looked for an explanations, including Ubuntu launches or WGA, but no single event explains such dramatic changes.
The only thing we could *ascertain* from this data is 25% increase in Linux usage every year, of users of those sites.
You are trying to deliberately mislead people and that is wrong.
Edited 2007-01-17 11:18
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2005-07-20
I am interested in what you discuss as market share , I know your wrong and are mixing market income with market share. But I want to confirm what your discussing first. If its your usual lyes and nonsense I am not interested.
I would wager he is looking at something like this: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2
Windows XP 85.3%
Mac+MacIntel 5.67% (4.15 & 1.52, respectively)
Windows 2000 5%
Windows 98 1.77%
Windows ME 0.89&
Windows NT 0.68%
Linux 0.37%
Admittedly, that only shows internet usage, likely doesn't include web servers, etc, but their results do show a drop in "Linux" in the past 4 months and a great increase in MacIntel, and I'd wager most of the 0.07% that was lost was some sort of migration in that direction.
But, let's assume for a moment that web servers should count, and we'll make a stupid rash assumption and say that every single web server running apache in the world is running linux(which is, obviously, false)... well, web servers only actually make up about .5% of the worlds computers, so... at 60% (apache share) of .5% + .37% that would bring Linux up to 0.67%... which is still way below Mac...
Now, I can't say that's the way things sit right now, I'm just saying that from a short look at the numbers that's the way it appears