Midwest-Linux
April 5th, 2008, 05:25 PM
Linux is up 61%
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Cracks ... _W3Counter
"Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent, study finds
Posted by Matt Asay 10 comments
It's possible that the Linux desktop will never be anything more than a fad among geeky enthusiasts. If so, a growing swell of people appear to be much more faddish of late, as numbers from W3Counter.com appear to indicate.
Looking at the data, Linux clearly has a ways to go. But consider just how far it has come:
Linux went from 1.25 percent in May of 2007 to 2.02 percent in March of 2008. That is 61.6 percent increase in market share in nine months. [Put another way,] that is 82 percent annual growth in installed computers."
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Yet another source says Linux has 3.8 % of the market, ....it shows that Mac is a 4.3...if this is really true...then Linux is close to become the # 2 Operating system....(again).
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Looking further, one sees from March 2003 to September 2005 (using this chart) Linux was actually the number 2 operating system.
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Another Source says Linux has 0.61% share
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report. ... stom=Linux
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Regardless of what the real figure is, Linux is up. Up enough for MSFT to be concerned enough to keep XP Home for the low end computers till 2010.
Does anyone know the true figure? Which study can we trust?
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Cracks ... _W3Counter
"Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent, study finds
Posted by Matt Asay 10 comments
It's possible that the Linux desktop will never be anything more than a fad among geeky enthusiasts. If so, a growing swell of people appear to be much more faddish of late, as numbers from W3Counter.com appear to indicate.
Looking at the data, Linux clearly has a ways to go. But consider just how far it has come:
Linux went from 1.25 percent in May of 2007 to 2.02 percent in March of 2008. That is 61.6 percent increase in market share in nine months. [Put another way,] that is 82 percent annual growth in installed computers."
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Yet another source says Linux has 3.8 % of the market, ....it shows that Mac is a 4.3...if this is really true...then Linux is close to become the # 2 Operating system....(again).
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Looking further, one sees from March 2003 to September 2005 (using this chart) Linux was actually the number 2 operating system.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Another Source says Linux has 0.61% share
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report. ... stom=Linux
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Regardless of what the real figure is, Linux is up. Up enough for MSFT to be concerned enough to keep XP Home for the low end computers till 2010.
Does anyone know the true figure? Which study can we trust?