Break out the salt, boys and girls, it's time for some statistics again. "According to Net Applications, in June Windows Vista accounted for 4.52% of all systems that browsed the Web, up from January's 0.18%. Vista has grown its usage share each month since its release to consumers Jan. 30, hitting 0.93% in February, 2.04% in March, 3.02% in April and 3.74% in May. Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, meanwhile, accounted for 6.22% in January and hit its high point of 6.46% in May, but it slipped back to 6% in June. If Vista's uptake trend continues, it should pass Mac OS X in Web usage share by the end of August." Do with it as you please.
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So that's why I see people with MacBooks all the time here in Sweden? I doubt that Apple has a 6% market share here, but it's growing fast, I can see that without the statistics.
Also I've seen a lot more linux laptops on trains and cafés the past year. Those used to be a rare sight.
Good to know that more people are moving away from Windows. We need more competition.
Member since:2006-07-04
According to the article, the stats are based on these web usage statistics:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=5
So it's neither the "US" nor "World" markets, per se.
And brostenen, here are the stats for the other OSes:
(another chart from the same site that shows the web usage stats for June 2007):
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2
Windows XP 81.94%
Windows Vista 4.52%
Windows 2000 4.00%
Mac OS 3.52%
MacIntel 2.48%
Windows 98 1.14%
Linux 0.71%
Windows NT 0.66%
Windows ME 0.59%
Nintendo Wii 0.17%
Unknown 0.07%
Windows CE 0.06%
Series60 0.02%
Windows 95 0.02%
Hiptop 0.02%
Edited 2007-07-24 17:14
Member since:2005-10-19
Someone correct me if I am wrong......
It appears to me there is a serious problem in using web usage statistics to calculate the OS being used.
Some non-windows browsers emulate Internet Explorer, indicating the use of Windows even when it's not the case.
I can't prove these statistics are flawed, but I'm sceptical of the accuracy of such numbers.
Member since:2005-07-06
Web usage stats (based on browsers) aren't that important nor accurate. Really I wouldn't judge market share from website access.
However, these stats seems very close to actual data as gathered from other sources, for US market. Apple totals is about 6% which is not their worldwide share by far but it's very close to reported US market share (between 5 and 6%). But that's why website access stats aren't significative at all. I'm sure a chinese website would show percentage like Linux 70%, Windows 15% and Mac 0%.
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2005-07-23
It's very unclear, is this the US market only? Or worldwide usage?
I suspect it's the US market only.