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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Member since:2009-05-20
Download counts are not accurate either, because I often download Linux from work, then distribute multiple copies of that ISO to friends and family so they don't have to download it.
Quite the contrary: download counts probably severely overestimate the amount of Linux users. People typically download multiple ISOs even if using just one. And they do that every six months or so.
Edited 2009-11-04 20:30 UTC
Member since:2005-07-02
...on the other hand, many people just use the direct upgrade, which does *not* appear as a download *at all*.
I personally have upgraded three PCs to 9.10 (two from 8.10, one from 9.04) and none of these have been counted anywhere.
Also, I don't know of anyone who downloads multiple ISOs of the same distribution. Why would you need to?
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2006-11-13
The author of the OSNews article said that Linux is still stuck in the 1% mark whereas Win7 already surpassed it. Nobody can actually say what the linux market share is, simple because web browser identification can easily be faked to can access to crappy websites without being blocked. Also sales figures are not actuate because of the deployment nature of open-source software. Download counts are not accurate either, because I often download Linux from work, then distribute multiple copies of that ISO to friends and family so they don't have to download it.
Windows doesn't work that this, and is much easier to track that Linux. So doing marketshare analysis to impossible or simply very inaccurate.