Highlights from NetApplications data for October - Linux market share drops
Summary: NetApplications has released data for October so it's time to dig through the trends.
NetApplications has released data for October so it's time to dig through the trends:
- IE market share continues the slow market share erosion, down to 71.27% (down from 71.52% in September, and 78.36% a year ago).
- Overall IE7 made small gains while IE6 slipped.
- Firefox market share up to its highest level, 19.97% (up from 19.46% in September, and 14.87% a year ago).
- Opera up to its highest level, 0.75% (up from 0.69% in September, an 0.58% a year ago).
- Chrome market share drops to 0.74%, from 0.78 last month.
- Slight blip in Windows numbers, to 90.46% (up slightly from 90.29% last month, and down from 92.49% a year ago).
- Vista continues to slowly grab market share from XP, up to 19.29% (up from 18.33% last month, and 7.94% a year ago).
- Mac share slips slightly to 8.21% (down from 8.26% a month ago, and 6.58% a year ago).
- Big slip for Linux this month, down to 0.71% (down from 0.91% a month ago, and up from 0.50% a year ago).
- Small gain for iPhone, to 0.33% (up from 0.32% a month ago, and up from 0.07% a year ago).
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In coming!!! Linux zealots' Mass Weapn of Denial. Dodge!
It's not only denial. There's also the conspiracy theories.
Can you please talk about other things
That's good...
Similar to John McCain...
50% windows are
75% of all statistics
That being the case, Legit Windows users and true Linux fans alike should be concerned about piracy. It's kicking both your butts, along with Apple fans.
Microsoft can survive with no income for longer then anyone else at this point. So if you think losing income to piracy is going to stop the evil empire, you have another thing coming. Especially seeing you don't even have to pay for a copy of a "pay for" distro of Linux or have to worry with activation. The only reason Linux isn't pirated is because it's not called stealing if you give it away.
OSX in its OSx86 format probably has more market share on the PC then it does on a Mac these days. So ask Apple if piracy is a Microsoft only problem.
Nice observation
I never looked at it that way, but it's true. Good point!
What? Did your rep get layed off?
Socialism
In the rest of the developed world, medicine is included in the same category as education. In France, and many countries, the maximum wait for elective surgery is two weeks. For critical care, it starts the second you walk into the doctor's office or hospital emergency area.
What has this to do with linux or free software? The problem for every government is the need to keep information for more then one or two releases of a wordprocessor's life. Therefore Open Documentation a la XML is essential for providing a means of so doing.
If you are opposed to other operating systems, such as Linux, then you remind me of the Henry Ford claim that you can have any car color, as long as it was black. Eventually Ford sales slipped from 85% of the market to 20%. (1920's + )
Microsoft and Mac are closed systems, Why should foreign countries rely on a product that the USA could leverage against them. Free and Open Software protects the rest of the world.
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TripleII
Whilst they're not accurate...
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I don't think they even show valid trends.
I think it is purely a marketing tool, since it is IIS only, opt-in, that is used to pretend that trends still show everything MS related is much much higher than it actually is.
TripleII
The problem with hitlist...
I would, however, point out that a lot of these standalone machines are running Windows so I don't think we can say that hitlist favours one OS at the expense of another.
You are correct, well sort of ...
While it's true that hitlist would not favor one OS over another at that point there's no need since machines with a higher percentage of Linux use, mostly non-us machines and standalone machines, have already been excluded.
It's very easy to present any statistic in a favorable light without ever having to manipulating the data but by only including or excluding various samples of a population. In other words just change the input to receive the desired output. :)
Whilst they're not accurate...
Also, inspection of source code is essential to prove there are no hooks, no built-in spyware, and the like.
You're absolutely correct ...
That ceiling is 90% market share for Windows. Once that support level drops below 90% a psychology effect takes over in the market, which is that Microsoft is no longer the impenetrable fortress of operating systems.
It's going to happen be it with Linux or Apple, there's little doubt about this. It's just funny because at what point does Net Applications becomes discredited in the wider community sort of like the Bush Administration. ;)
Edit:
According to W3Counter the levels for Windows below the 90% mark, however minor, has already been breached:
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
[i]?The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over? - Joseph Goebbels [/i]
There's one problem with your crystal ball.
Apparently the psychological effect you so assuredly profess isn't broken at 90%?
Need a cystal ball? Naww, just a calculator ...
Windows share from W3counter (all versions)
May 2007 93.60%
Jun 2007 93.47%
Jul 2007 93.52%
Aug 2007 93.44%
Sep 2007 93.38%
Oct 2007 91.46%
Nov 2007 91.52%
Dec 2007 91.48%
Jan 2008 91.34%
Feb 2008 91.11%
Mar 2008 91.06%
Apr 2008 91.17%
May 2008 91.11%
Jun 2008 91.05%
Jul 2008 90.85%
Aug 2008 [b]89.65%[/b]
Sep 2008 [b]89.10%[/b]
Oct 2008 [b]89.86%[/b]
Do you notice a pattern here? Well if anything at least I can add some numbers, which is more than you can say. ;)