Linux market share almost doubled in last year?

[fluteflute]

"Linux has also shown modest growth, rising from 0.43% of the market in June 2007 to claim 0.80% in June 2008."

Whilst 0.80% is still rather tiny, I think that this is a massive increase!

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/210336/windows-market-share-slipping-away.html

[fatality_uk]

I do like this spin on things :lol:


However, Windows Vista is beginning to make headway, claiming 16.14% of the market today, compared to Windows XP's 71.2%

DUH!!! It's pre-installed into millions of PC's of course it will.

[fatality_uk]

I do like this spin on things :lol:


However, Windows Vista is beginning to make headway, claiming 16.14% of the market today, compared to Windows XP's 71.2%

DUH!!! It's pre-installed into millions of PC's of course it will.

[jomiolto]

I guess this: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Linux is the source?

I wonder if all the mini-notebooks have something to do with the 0.12% "jump" in Linux usage from May to June?

[Erdaron]

Well, if they're counting all the pre-installed Vistas, it's only fair to count pre-installed copies of Linux. (Linuxes? Linuci? Linae?)

[Luffield]

Linux market share keeps growing, it was 0.82% in July (up from 0.80% in June). Oddly enough, Mac OS X is on a decline while Windows goes up.
All the data is here (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8) (click the little graph icon next to the OS name to see the full data).