Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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RE[2]: Linux has reached the 90% market share
by Soulbender on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 13:23
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They track a gazillion sites - from all walks of life - and have like millions and millions of hits from all over the world to deal with.
Don't beleive the hype. Gazillion eh?
Also, for these figures to be of any meaning whatsoever we need to know how the data was sampled, what the sample is and how the results was calculated.
Statistics for which you don't know, or can't find out, these values are meaningless.
I'm not saying they're wrong but if they won't tell you how they arrived at their conclusions it's pretty much worthless.
RE[3]: Linux has reached the 90% market share
by siride on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 15:45
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Based on download stats from Ubuntu and Fedora and the like, desktop Linux users are likely in the millions, maybe 10s of millions. Not bad, but hardly a significant portion of the desktop market. Walk around anywhere with computers and you'll be hard-pressed to find Linux machines, or at least a significant number of them, unless you are in some specialized location like a Linux lab at a university.
RE[2]: Linux has reached the 90% market share
by ggeldenhuys on Wed 4th Nov 2009 07:22
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It is about as accurate as these things can get.
Really?? So if my web browser identification string does not show the OS, my count is invalid (or do they then simply assume Windows). If my browser identification string is "faked" so that some idiotic website can work and not block me, that count is incorrect as well.
Very accurate - NOT!
RE[3]: Linux has reached the 90% market share
by strcpy on Wed 4th Nov 2009 20:33
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Really?? So if my web browser identification string does not show the OS, my count is invalid (or do they then simply assume Windows). If my browser identification string is "faked" so that some idiotic website can work and not block me, that count is incorrect as well.
Very accurate - NOT!
You should recap the elementary statistics a little.
With big enough sample, browsers that do not show identification are just white nose.
RE[2]: Linux has reached the 90% market share
by archiesteel on Thu 5th Nov 2009 22:39
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And punctuation died a little inside.
But anyway. NA does not use sales figures. They track a gazillion sites - from all walks of life - and have like millions and millions of hits from all over the world to deal with. It is about as accurate as these things can get.