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Nope, I got labeled a troll for daring to speak the truth, like multibillion dollar corporations are gonna toss all those apps and spend millions on retraining just to dance in a field with RMS, like the numbers are all lies. Notice how "other" gets more share than Linux? Last time I looked up other it was Win9x and Win2K. Pretty sad when OSes more than a decade old and obsolete are still kicking you ass when you are giving it away, huh?

But if you would like some serious LOLs, just go here and see how many of the Linux bullshitter trademarks match /. groupthink. It is pretty damned accurate.

By the time this comes out, with how things are going Flash may be just a distant memory.

Apple has sold two million iPads.

That translates to 0.03% of web users. 0.12% in the states. Headlines

Windows has a global share of 91%. Win 7, 12% and closing in fast on 20%. Operating System Market Share [May 31]

By the time this comes out, with how things are going Flash may be just a distant memory.

Apple has sold two million iPads.

That translates to 0.03% of web users. 0.12% in the states. Headlines

Windows has a global share of 91%. Win 7, 12% and closing in fast on 20%. Operating System Market Share [May 31]

...an SEO technique is not completely invalidated until such time as all popular engines have a away to discount it.

So, basically...as soon as Google changes their algorithm? Because I'm drawing a blank on any other "popular" engines here...

http://www.netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx?qprid=4

Windows XP is running on 80% of the PC's and has 32 pixel icons that demand a lo-res display.

The numbers are more like 64% for XP and 26% for Vista and Win 7. Operating System Market Share

The average retail of a PC is US$500, again demanding a lo-res display

Walmart's in-store price for a 64 Bit Win 7 Home Premium Dell desktop with a 23" 1920x1080 screen is $800. Dell Inspiron 570 Desktop. The 1080p monitor at Walmart is $200, and there is nothing much to be gained by paying substantially more or less.

According to 3 different browser stat usage, Safari and Chrome are too tiny a market to consider. Which means its more likely to be a battle between Google/Firefox and Microsoft more then anything.

Oh for fuck sake, if you want to link to statistics, use the NetApp statistics, stop using the bullshit W3Schools statistics (which have a giant disclaimer saying that their statistics are in no way realistic or reliable). NetApp's actually says the Firefox share is 5 times as many as Chrome, but that's not the point.

If IE6 weren't from Microsoft, but still had the same endemic big security problems, being actively exploited from everywhere, not interest in fixes from the making company and being used still by 10-20% of internet, specially in the corporate world, probably Google would phase out the support anyway.

Regarding Microsoft/Bing, Firefox never had so big holes, and so actively exploited, like IE6. And anyway old versions have very low usage, and odds are high that that users dont visit bing (most of its niceties are based on silverlight, they are excluding browsers/OS already)

Also matter how much used is an old, insecure version, compared with another "players" of internet, like other browsers versions, or even old flash player versions. Only in IE the old, insecure and unmaintained version is widely used, in the others the most used versions are the latest or close enough, and without very big vulnerabilities anyway (ok, maybe with the exception of flash)

Tripped across this link a while ago detailing with a surprising amount of granularity market share of browsers. Netmarketshare says that 21.35% of browsing is taking place on IE6 or one of its derivative versions.

That's a whole lot of market share - Firefox aggregately across all versions beats it, but not by much.

Dvelopers can choose not to market to those users or ignore them and eventually give them a poor experience, sure. But if the below is accurate, then that would be about the same argument as ignoring Firefox users, as far as market share goes.

Though maybe the data I'm seeing here is wrong - this is the 'net, of course, and there are many ways of attempting to measure net usage.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=2

We don't ignore them, we understand them to be unimportant.

I don't know how to respond to something like this.

Here is the graph: Windows 7 Breaks 10% in Daily Tracking

In daily tracking Win 7 had a 3.5% global share October 31. 10% on January 31. In monthly tracking, Win 7 had a 0% share in March. 7.5% in January, and blew past Linux along about September.

The open public beta was a spectacular success.

Win 7 entered the game when Vista hardware and drivers had matured.

That said these numbers have to come from consumer spending on the mid-line product, or better. Not netbook sales and not corporate purchases. That is a vote of confidence from a market that was supposed to be Apple's for the taking.
 

http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=1&qpcustom=Chrome

This is not a flattening curve.

Okay w3schools didn't seem like the best source after I posted... so found this.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0&qptimeframe=M&qpsp=120&qpnp=13

It is quoted as a source in an article on Chrome's growth.
It has a cool date selection option...

So...Without further ado...
January 2009
Opera: 2.23%

January 2010
Opera: 2.38%

and you can use the date selection combined with the graph to look at the other browsers too.

The comparison between this and w3schools shows w3 gets a lot less IE browsers and more of the other types.

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]