Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 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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Soulbender
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2005-08-18

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.

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siride Member since:
2006-01-02

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.

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