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[5]: Linux has reached the 90% market share
by strcpy on Thu 5th Nov 2009 05:17
in reply to "RE[4]: Linux has reached the 90% market share"
Member since:2009-05-20
To say nothing about the question at hand, size alone is not a sufficient guarantor of the representativeness of a sample. Even very large samples can fail to be representative of the population from which they are drawn; equally, smaller samples can be more representative if carefully constructed. Larger is probably better, but it is not a sufficient condition to guarantee representativeness on its own. So, "it was big!" is not a valid answer to someone who questions whether the sample population was representative; big can still be wrong.
Fair enough. But in this case I believe the sample may be representative enough. Nothing to support this but IMO.
(But as you probably know, "being big enough" guarantees certain statistical properties via the central limit theorems.)
The point here was that things like "faked identification strings in browsers" hardly matter in the overall picture.
RE[6]: Linux has reached the 90% market share
by lemur2 on Thu 5th Nov 2009 05:27
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Member since:2007-02-17
The point here was that things like "faked identification strings in browsers" hardly matter in the overall picture.
The point is that the "overall picture" is being deliberately misreported to you.
Linux dominates many computing markets, and even in some segments of the desktop market it is shipping at about a third of the market with Windows the remaining two thirds.
It is simply the case that some vested interests do not want you to know about this. They do not want it generally known that Linux is a perfectly viable option (even on the desktop) that is far better value for people.
Edited 2009-11-05 05:28 UTC
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To say nothing about the question at hand, size alone is not a sufficient guarantor of the representativeness of a sample. Even very large samples can fail to be representative of the population from which they are drawn; equally, smaller samples can be more representative if carefully constructed. Larger is probably better, but it is not a sufficient condition to guarantee representativeness on its own. So, "it was big!" is not a valid answer to someone who questions whether the sample population was representative; big can still be wrong.