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why can't you just use cpp? It will work on all linuxes without much modification. And who gives a fuck about windows.

The approx 90% of computers that run Windows would care. Catering to an OS with only 1% of the market share like Linux is suicide. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8 http://www.statowl.com/operating_system_market_share_trend.php

60's? More like 80's. http://www.techwyse.com/blog/internet-marketing/search-engine-market-share-january-2010/ http://marketshare.hitslink.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=4

I'll gander it will be around for TEN MORE years!!

Oh I'm sure it will be around and used by some. But not by most people. It wont be mainstream, even in two years anymore. Just look at the statistics right now: market share dropped from 80%+ to barely 66% in the last two years and Windows 7 hasn't really even kicked in yet. And now with Microsoft not supporting XP with new products, the decline will only accelerate.

While Vista was obviously a problem, people won't be buying computers with XP pre-installed now that W7 is out, even though it is still an option from some vendors. So given the normal lifespan of a PC of about 3 to 5 years, XP will be completely gone from the scene, which is about the same timespan I reckon it will take for HTML5 to become a mainstream alternative to Flash.

Sure, XP is "good enough" to do most tasks, you're completely right about that. But that's not what it's about.

Comparing XP's worthless out-of-box installation to any other OS which comes with (and MAINTAINS) hundreds of third-party apps is an extremely invalid comparison.

The geek trots the old gray mare out for another run around the track.

The "market value" of the Linux repository has proven to be as close to zero as makes no difference. The Windows user can shop for apps anywhere he chooses. There are risks in that. But rewards as well.

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The W3Schools OS Platform Statistics offer a quick look back over seven years.

Linux with a 2% share in March 2003.
5% in February 2010.

Win 7 Beta/RC 2% in July 2009.
  Win 7 13% in February 2010.

The Net Applications stats are - typically - less charitable. Top Operating Share Trend

About 62% of the people use IE.

Wow, you live in a different world than me then because all the friends and family I know that got Vista asked me to give them XP back :/

I think perhaps he does.

The Net Applications stats show Vista with a 17% share in April 2009 and a 16.5% share in February 2010. Top Operating System Share Trend

WeSchools has compartive stats for Vista and XP from January 2007 on.

Vista enters the lists at 0.6% with XP at 76% - its high water market. Vista closed February 2010 with 14%, Win 7 at 14% and XP at 58% OS Platform Stats

What is important here is not the percentages - which differ - but the trend lines, which do not.

Vista as a consumer OS took - and held - about 20% of the market in less than two years.
   

Firefox (one of the most popular web browsers and growing) includes built-in support for Ogg and NOT for H.264. Many sites, and many operating systems (such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, etc.) do NOT support H.264.

Linux has - collectively - has a bare 1% of the global desktop and the trend line remains as flat as the Kansas prairies. Top Operating System Share Trend

When I look at the Net Applications stats, what I see is IE 8 in a dead heat with Firefox 3 and 3.5. Top Browser Share Trend

Firefox (one of the most popular web browsers and growing) includes built-in support for Ogg and NOT for H.264. Many sites, and many operating systems (such as Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, etc.) do NOT support H.264.

Linux has - collectively - has a bare 1% of the global desktop and the trend line remains as flat as the Kansas prairies. Top Operating System Share Trend

When I look at the Net Applications stats, what I see is IE 8 in a dead heat with Firefox 3 and 3.5. Top Browser Share Trend

And what about this ?

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2

if you don't like the default Ubuntu which is in your words for "drooling idiots," you are more than free to use one of the 400 Linux distros, one of the ~10 top DEs or the thousands of themes out there.

Collectively, those 400 Linux distros haven't been able to gain a solid hold on 1% of the global desktop

It is not realistic to ask anyone to test drive 400 distros, 10 DEs and 15,000 themes.

Unbuntu is one of a bare handful of distros that has visibility - brand-name product on the shelves - in the home and SOHO markets.

That translates - or should translate - into audio, video and wireless support that is fully competitive with OSX or Windows, a definable market for Linux PC gaming.

Meaningful incentives to port other consumer-oriented apps and services.

Top Operating System Share Trend

I personally believe that individuals will make the difference.
But people are now starting to feel enough pain - be it software costs, inefficient use of hardware, viruses and other malware, etc. - that Linux and open-source software, generally, are getting plenty of attention. The cure, in other words, now outweighs the effort of applying it. Yes, Microsoft will do its part to thwart this progress,but even so I've seen broad and ever-increasing government adoption of open source

He believes that individuals will make the difference - but the progress he sees is in government adoption of open source.

The top-down solution.

The mandate from on high.

Nothing much seems to be happening at ground level.

In the Net Applications stats, Linux struggles to hold on to a 1% share of the global desktop. Top Operating System Share Trend [March 2 Preview]

In the W3Schools OS Platform Stats W2K held a 42% share in March 03, Linux 2%.

W2K was never a mass market OS.

This February, Win 7 had 13%, Linux 5% and W2K 0%. You could legitimately argue from these stats that Linux hasn't gained much of a grip - on the desktop - even when you look at usage by the pros.

As for the general gaming market, yes, gaming is a weakness on Linux, but addressing that is not a priority for Canonical.

The PC game is the quintessential client app.

The machine that can play games is a powerhouse for all forms of media, interaction and communication. It sets the standard. Games and gaming tech can change the way you think about the PC or the console. How you use it.

It astonishes me that basic audio play and mixing could still be problematical for the Linux user in in 2010.

All About . . . Sound Cards for Windows [July 1997]

Open Source is inherently cross-platform. The Windows port is inevitable - and it has visibility. Download.com is one click away. The quality and ease of use of the Linux repository is unknown until you install the OS.

The sample apps on the typical Linux Live CD clearly aren't setting the world on fire.

Google gets many magnitudes more search query data...

One is many for you? http://marketshare.hitslink.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=4 http://www.statowl.com/search_engine_market_share.php

No, that was before it was officially announced, with prices and details. Everyone figured it'll be closer to $1000 based on rumors of such device coming from Apple. It was still when everyone thought it would actually have a good hardware, open, as in more closer to OSX than iPhone, OS and good features.

It wasn't anything like that, but useless device, which is overpriced for what it has actually has or does.

And that is why, for example, that pre-orders in Norway, and especially orders for the most expensive version, are overwhelming.

Your comment has now been entered in the world-famous "iPad failure prediction" contest, to take it's place in history with the now-laughable iPod and iPhone "failure prediction" comments we all enjoy trotting out on /.

Now go back and contemplate why Linux still has, after nearly 20 years, a marketshare that is 5 times less than OS X's, and why Android is well on its way to becoming an unmitigated clusterfuck of increasingly incompatible versions and devices.

Indeed ActiveX, IE, IIS, .net, ms-java, directx, exchange, outlook, visual studio, msn messenger, etc were all designed to create a big windows-lock. And it works - locks very well. Allied to their openly admitted strategy of charging for it whenever possible, if not encouraging it to be used and pirated comfortably. Until this basic dual-legality strategy is attacked somehow, it will be very hard to dethrone windows. Hard to admit, but Apple is actually making more headway than Linux on the desktop, competing based on good design, good experience for users. I love open source, but unfortunately there is still more work to do to match the desktop experience. As for price, well, counting piracy reality, open source costs the same. As for features, all good open-source apps generally work on windows too, but the opposite is not true. So people format their store-bought cheaper Linux boxes and install whatever runs their apps and is easy and free. Piratows works great, like it or not. And to be honest, I think to compete Piratinux will be necessary. Allowing integration of Linux with piratewarez even more easily and comfortably. Otherwise it simply becomes incompatible with users reality, which is what it is now. Wine isn't good enough yet, nope, and probably will never be.

I went through with my new years resolution to remove google from all my browsers.

As of right now, obsolete versions of Internet Explorer still account for roughly 35 percent of web usage share: 20% IE 6 and 15% IE 7. In order to deploy a web application that works on both downlevel Internet Explorer and standards-based web browsers, you can A. spend time and money working around all of IE's CSS bugs, file format deficiencies (no real XHTML, no SVG), and lack of new elements such as <canvas>, or embed a browser within a browser. The ActiveX browser control based on Gecko appears to be unmaintained for years, but Google offers one called Chrome Frame. So what do you recommend that sites hosting web applications use instead of Chrome Frame?

Windows 7 is just Microsoft playing catchup with Apple

OSX 10.6 has 2% of the market. Win 7 8%. [and in daily tracking a tad under 10%] Vista and Win 7 combined have 25% of the market. Top Operating System Share Trend

Ars Technica posted this interesting chart of Windows usage on Steam:

19% of Steam users are running 64 bit Windows 7. "There are more users on Windows 7 64-bit than any other flavor of Windows, except for Windows XP 32-bit."

The Linux Foundation also did this in 2009. Here are last year's winners.

In March 2009 Win 7 had a global market share of 0%.

Linux 1%.

It is reasonably safe to predict that in March 2010, Win 7 will break through 10%. Barring a miracle, Linux will remain at 1%. Top Operating System Share Trends

The W3Schools stats are kinder to Linux - but the trend lines are just as flat.

Apple sells an upscale urban lifestyle. Microsoft solid middle class values. This is not the geek's definition of freedom. But it strikes a chord with others.

The geek remembers "1984." But IBM did very well with Charlie Chaplin.

The FOSS application is routinely ported to Windows or begins as a native Windows app. That takes the wind out of your sails when you talk to the user about "freedom."

Can we at least get the Linux Foundation to support Ogg/Theora as a supported format to upload videos in. Ideally they would accept only Ogg and use HTML5 to show the videos instead of Flash..

The Flash player delivers H.264 video to 99% of the potential market. Flash Player Version Penetration

Hardware accelerated in Flash 10.

The browser with Ogg/Theora support has about 22% of the market. Browser market share

What it does not have is YouTube. What it does not it have is the potent backing of 759 corporate licensees - the biggest names in broadcasting and consumer tech. AVC/H.264 Licensees

Haven't you noticed? The desktop is irrelevant. It's been abstracted to an Internet access platform. It's the phone in the pocket which is the current battleground, and Linux has won that already.

Net Applications tracks pretty much every device with Internet access.

The iPhone - as an Internet platform - has a 0.48% share. Symbian 0.24%. The iPod Touch 0.11%. Win Mobile 0.07% Android 0.06%. Operating System Market Share

It is far too early to declare a winner here.

The cell phone remains primarily a personal messaging platform. Its the everyday telephone call, supplemented by text and still or motion video. The subscriber is interested in coverage, he is interested in the service plan - his monthly bill.

This is a flattening curve. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=3

So if ya want to bring about "The Year of the Linux Desktop" helping Microsoft turn the screws on unlicensed installs is probably the most productive thing a non-coder can do. Especially outside the US.

Three stories the geek will studiously ignore:

Microsoft revealed that it had sold over 60 million Windows 7 licenses through the second quarter. This not only made it a record quarter for Windows units in general, but it makes Windows 7 the fastest selling operating system in history. Windows 7 leads the way to record quarter for Microsoft [Jan 28]

Apple's Aug. 28 release of its Snow Leopard software resulted in a boost of 1 point to 65 percent in the first week. Through the end of the year, the increase was 6.9 percent.
The percentage of customers satisfied with Microsoft reached 73 percent on Dec. 31, the highest since YouGov started surveying in 2007. Microsoft's reputation is benefiting from the positively reviewed Windows 7, after some customers held off personal-computer purchases to avoid the product's predecessor, Vista, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Kirkland, Washington- based Directions on Microsoft.
"People are saying, 'Okay, Microsoft got its mojo back,'" he said. "People who were thinking about buying a new PC are more likely to do so now. You'll see slightly better sales." Rosoff said the boost is probably also due to the June release of Microsoft's overhauled Bing Internet search engine.
  Microsoft Outpaces Apple in Customer Satisfaction: Chart of Day [Feb 1]

For the last day in January Windows 7 Breaks 10% in Daily Tracking. Global Market Share Statistics [Feb 1]

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Highest Windows 7 Usage in U.S. - Redmond Area
Surprise! The Redmond, WA area has the highest usage share of Windows 7 in the U.S. Within the actual city of Redmond, 42% of internet users are on Windows 7. Market Share By Postal Code [Feb 1]

As Windows XP is phased out and the cost of bundling Windows 7 rises, manufacturers will be looking for a cheap and easily maintainable netbook OS

Walmart.com currently stocks 125 Win 7 laptops. Fifty Win 7 desktops.*

The retailer is looking for sales.

Which Windows and Win 7 have proven they can deliver. Top Operating System Share Trend

This isn't rocket science.

The buyer sees the Win 7 Atom netbook on sale with a 10' screen and a 250 GB hard drive.

What to fill it with?

He has tons of Windows software at home which will load and run without a problem.

Software he knows.

Software he uses. Software he likes.
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* But only two netbooks in stores. That's a fast fade-out even by Walmart standards.

And now Bing keeps gaining marketshare faster than ever before [slashdot.org].

You're talking about the US market alone.

According to Hitslink, Bing even dropped a chunk of market share back in November, and didn't regain it in December. It hasn't seen as much popularity internationally, perhaps because it's lacking international features, such as online shopping. The Swedish Bing for example just use a third-party site for that, not anything integrated to it in their "decision engine". It's just a simple search engine here.

I like to think of the browser market for inspiration: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0

I've gotten some commentary about using Hitslink, so here's another reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Both first place and second place are locked in an eternal struggle to outdo each other. The nearest competition is a considerable distance from the frontline. I believe it's third place that is the real proving ground; success in both of my linked resources is defined as a single digit percentage point with the most room for improvement.

It's much easier to advance 6 points and take third place than it is to advance 26 points and take second place. Firefox isn't worried about Chrome or Safari taking second, the effort to get there is much to great. Chrome and Safari on the other hand occupy a position that is much closer to being dethroned by Opera. And IE isn't worried about any of them taking the lead, it has to extend effort to maintain and defend it's lead.

WebOS just has to close the lead on second by doing what the other OS guys are already doing.

MS isn't the power house that they once were. They're more like the obese ex-college football star that thinks they're still the big fast hunk they once were

The numbers suggest otherwise:

Operating System Market Share
  Top Operating System Share Trend

Holding 92% of the market after a quarter century or more of competition looks mighty healthy to me.

Win 7 is approaching a 7% share. OSX has 5% and Linux 1%. Mobile browsing's "explosive" growth still accounts for only 1% of all browsing.

Top Operating System Share Trend
  Mobile Browsing Explodes in December

MS isn't the power house that they once were. They're more like the obese ex-college football star that thinks they're still the big fast hunk they once were

The numbers suggest otherwise:

Operating System Market Share
  Top Operating System Share Trend

Holding 92% of the market after a quarter century or more of competition looks mighty healthy to me.

Win 7 is approaching a 7% share. OSX has 5% and Linux 1%. Mobile browsing's "explosive" growth still accounts for only 1% of all browsing.

Top Operating System Share Trend
  Mobile Browsing Explodes in December

MS isn't the power house that they once were. They're more like the obese ex-college football star that thinks they're still the big fast hunk they once were

The numbers suggest otherwise:

Operating System Market Share
  Top Operating System Share Trend

Holding 92% of the market after a quarter century or more of competition looks mighty healthy to me.

Win 7 is approaching a 7% share. OSX has 5% and Linux 1%. Mobile browsing's "explosive" growth still accounts for only 1% of all browsing.

Top Operating System Share Trend
  Mobile Browsing Explodes in December

MS isn't the power house that they once were. They're more like the obese ex-college football star that thinks they're still the big fast hunk they once were

The numbers suggest otherwise:

Operating System Market Share
  Top Operating System Share Trend

Holding 92% of the market after a quarter century or more of competition looks mighty healthy to me.

Win 7 is approaching a 7% share. OSX has 5% and Linux 1%. Mobile browsing's "explosive" growth still accounts for only 1% of all browsing.

Top Operating System Share Trend
  Mobile Browsing Explodes in December

It's only been out since October 22nd, 2009.

Net Applications and w3Schools have been tracking Win 7 since January.

If there were any show-stoppers for Win 7, it seems reasonable to assume they would have been exposed by now.

In round numbers:

Net Applications:

Win 7 Jan 0% Nov 4%
In daily tracking 5%

Linux 1% Through Jan-Nov 09.

W3Schools:

Win 7 Jan 0% Nov 7%

Linux 4% Unchanged since January 2008.

Top Operating System Share Trend, Windows 7 Breaks 5% in Daily Tracking

OS Platform Statistics
 

It's only been out since October 22nd, 2009.

Net Applications and w3Schools have been tracking Win 7 since January.

If there were any show-stoppers for Win 7, it seems reasonable to assume they would have been exposed by now.

In round numbers:

Net Applications:

Win 7 Jan 0% Nov 4%
In daily tracking 5%

Linux 1% Through Jan-Nov 09.

W3Schools:

Win 7 Jan 0% Nov 7%

Linux 4% Unchanged since January 2008.

Top Operating System Share Trend, Windows 7 Breaks 5% in Daily Tracking

OS Platform Statistics
 

According to the Anandtech article, only the pretty much end-of-life Windows XP is out of luck. Linux, OS X and modern Windows versions all work ... Non news?

According to many estimates that is 3 out of 5 computer users have XP as their OS. That is pretty big. The lowest estimate that I have seen is that XP is only running on 1 out 5 daily use computers. Another way of looking at it is that there more XP users than there are, Unix, Linux, Mac OS (any version) and any other non-Windows OS combined.

Sources: (62.2%): http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

(69.05%): http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10

(48.47%): http://gs.statcounter.com/press/encouraging-start-for-windows-7

(70.48%): http://gizmodo.com/5398689/reality-check

Also the expected end of life is no earlier than April 8, 2014, four years from now...

But perhaps the measures are too strong in today's "Linux curious" environment.

It took one month in release for Win 7 to take a 5% share of the global desktop.

Five times that of Linux.

Windows 7 Breaks 5% in Daily Tracking - Mac Share Drops .15% in November

95%? Your statistics are a bit old.

Trying to cast the story in the beset possible light, the OP has to fold, staple and mutilate the simple content of the TFA to avoid its real negative implications for Linux market share now and in the future. Look for instance at this graphic (also from hitslink.com), which really shows how hopeless the situation is for Linux.

That's not so wrong. If you look at these numbers, you can see that Mac lost .15%, Windows stayed the same, and Linux gained .04%. So, about 25% of Mac's loss was Linux's gain. The rest seems to have been made up by mobile phones (but not the iphone, which also lost .01%).

The version trending shows that as many people who dumped XP or Vista picked up 7 and as many people as dumped OSX 10.5 picked up 10.6. So, the decline in Mac share comes from pre-10.5. There are a lot of possibilities that jump to mind, but the most interesting is that people are dumping their old Macs for Linux or Windows 7.

That's not so wrong. If you look at these numbers, you can see that Mac lost .15%, Windows stayed the same, and Linux gained .04%. So, about 25% of Mac's loss was Linux's gain. The rest seems to have been made up by mobile phones (but not the iphone, which also lost .01%).

The version trending shows that as many people who dumped XP or Vista picked up 7 and as many people as dumped OSX 10.5 picked up 10.6. So, the decline in Mac share comes from pre-10.5. There are a lot of possibilities that jump to mind, but the most interesting is that people are dumping their old Macs for Linux or Windows 7.

Windows Mobile's 0.04% market share is not included in the 92.52% of Windows machines reported, but rather, part of "other":

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

Therefore, the non-MS market has just been downsized to 7.44% and Linux's share of that is accordingly bumped up to 13.44%.

However, the iPod touch (0.07%) is also not counted in the iPhone's 0.36% market share, so Apple's relative share of that same market goes up to 74.60%.

Another interesting tidbit from these (questionably reliable) numbers: Blackberry and Android are roughly tied in market share based on web traffic, both registering at 0.03%. This is probably a testament to the superior browser on Android rather than actual market share by units sold (and the same with the iPhone).

That article was basically a graph in text form.

You Mods do realize that the differences in Office 2010 and Office 2k8 are interface differences?

Nothing is more likely to have a direct impact on the productivity of the office worker than the UI.

You do realize the differences in Vista and Windows 7 are mere "bug fixes", much like Win 95 and Win98 were.

These "bug fixes" have been enough to give Win 7 5% of the global market one month after its official release.

Windows 7 Breaks 5% in Daily Tracking - Mac Share Drops .15% in November

most of the world isnt stuck on Internet Explorer

(citation needed)

As long as 65% isn't most. You are correct

Windows 7 had 1.9% market share before launch?

Net Applications and W3Schools have been tracking Win 7 since January:

Top Operating System Share Trend. OS Platform Statistics

October

NA
Win7 2.15%
Linux 0.96%

W3S
Win7 4.4%
Linux 4.2%

In the W3Schools stats it took Linux six years to move from 2% to 4%. Win 7 three months.

But why, exactly, does a consumer want Windows? For Excel? Word?

For any one of the gazillion or so home and office apps released for the MSDOS and Windows platform since 1980?

GOG.com

And only a few people even know what to do with Excel.

The reality is that training in MS Office is a marketable skill anywhere south of the Arctic Circle.

I'd take the odds that MS Office lies at or near the core of any adult education program within your reach.

That training will be free or generously subsidized for seniors, those on welfare or with disabilities.

Seems like Linux will fill the bill with a browser, maybe a PostScript app and a media player

The geek re-invents the net appliance every other year or so --- and gets his butt kicked the moment a more capable product enters the market.

The iPhone on the Internet has a 0.35% share of the market. Operating System Market Share

But it is an expensive commitment.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

  Windows 92.77%
    Mac 5.12%
    Linux 0.95%

And you dont really need to count XP, Vista and Win7 as different versions, WinAPI is pretty much the same in all (if you dont count the extra features in Vista/Win7 ones, but you dont need to use those)

Of course if you're a Microsoft slave, you can wait for a bug to be fixed "when we get around to it"

You see that a lot in FOSS as well.

What you don't see so much in the Windows world is a natural-born instinct for insults guaranteed to piss off any potential convert.

depending on how buggy THIS Windows version is...

In nine months the public beta/RC of Win 7 took a 1.5% share of the desktop. 50% higher than Linux, all flavors. Top Operating System Share Trend

If there were any show-stoppers they should have been exposed by now.

Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Windows 7

There are no unpatched Secunia advisories affecting this product, when all vendor patches are applied.

Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Windows Vista

The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Microsoft Windows Vista, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Less critical

Apple advocates may not want to play the popularity card. By that standard, MacOS must suck, cuz Windows derivatives are 18 times more popular.

Apple products target the high end market which is smaller in itself. Still, when the iPhone collects a third of handset industry profits and tops the consumer satisfaction surveys, it means it is one of the greatest products of all time.

Apple advocates may not want to play the popularity card. By that standard, MacOS must suck, cuz Windows derivatives are 18 times more popular.

C'mon, I don't even like Apple, and I know better than to try to equate market share with superiority. In both cases, there must be some other explanation.

Oh, yeah, marketing.

That people aren't comfortable with Linux isn't Linux's fault.

In less than one year the Win 7 Beta/RC went on from nothing to capture a 1.5% share of the global desktop.

OSX 10.5 with its impeccable UNIX roots took 3%.

Vista holds about 20% of the market.

Linux simply seems to have run out of gas. Top Operating System Share Trend, OS Platform Statistics

Linux's part of the bargain is complete.

The bargain is never complete until you make the sale.

I wonder how many of the Windows 7 "parties" will really be Linux install fests.

Win 7 ended the 2008 holiday shopping season in January with a 0.13% share of the desktop. Linux with 0.91%.

Linux begins the 2009 holiday season with 0.95% of the desktop and Win 7 with 1.5%. Top Operating System Share Trend

The W3Schools OS Platform Statistics are no more cheering:
at its present 1% a month growth, Win 7 needs only a month to overtake Linux even there.

WalMart.com alone lists over fifty laptop and desktop systems eligible for a free upgrade to Win 7. $400-$1700.

That's a broad spectrum of product for the middle class market - and there are going be a lot of folks looking for help with their Win 7 install.

That's why I trust Net Applications. They measure something actually useful: what system people use to browse the web.

No, he is not. These statistics are made with logs from web servers. http://marketshare.hitslink.com/