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iOS devices are a giant chunk of the mobile market and play H.264 fine, and so do Android devices and Palm's WebOS.

iOS doesn't figure in the big picture. Neither does the mobile market generally. Look at the percentage of desktop web use relative to mobile web use:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-201001-201101

The entire mobile market is 4.3%. The desktop market is 95.7% We're leaving this decision up to the desktop market because the mobile market is a minnow in comparison.

60% of the market is currently XP that's a lot of people to insult.

No it's not. XP's market share has been dropping steadily for a while now. I wouldn't be surprised if that trend accelerated over the next year as companies get around to infrastructure upgrades they put off during the recession.

Where's Ballmer with a chair (and not sitting on it)?

The Borg icon and the stained glass window were never more than flameboat.

Trash them both. It clears your head:

In Microsoft's second quarter:

Revenues $19.5 billion.

Business software, profits up 35%
Server and tools, profits up 21%
Entertainment group, profits up 86%

While PC shipments are down and tablet sales are hot, the PC isn't going away any time soon:

No, the iPad Is Not Killing Microsoft's Business
Mobile vs Desktop

The fact that buying a bare laptop is more expensive is a nasty side-effect of MS's licensing arrangements with OEMs. That, in turn, is why people are getting fed up with the Windows tax.

Bare bones doesn't sell worth shit.

While Walmart.com finds it profitable to stock 240 Win 7 laptops and 89 desktops. None of them high end product.

The OEM Windows PC benefits from enormous economies of scale.

In manufacturing. In marketing.

The OEM Windows PC benefits from the fact that it is sold as a ready-to-run home appliance and not a kit of parts.

You buy the Win 7 laptop knowing that the sound will work. That ain't always true with Ubuntu.

There is damn little evidence that talk of the "Microsoft Tax" rings anyone's chimes but the geek's. Top 5 Operating Systems

Why not ask them - today YouTube does exactly that.

Ah, concession that the transition is occurring. That's progress.

They cannot because of IE and iOS marketshare.

When you say "IE" I presume you mean IE9. That same IE9 that will continue to have the Flash plugin? That same IE9 that can play WebM content in the video tag? IE has been overtaken by Firefox as the number one browser in Europe:

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/firefox-overtakes-internet-explorer-in-europe-in-browser-wars

Add Chrome and Opera into the mix to hit IE in its weak spot for massive damage.

Flash supports a lot of other codecs that are not commonly used.

What are these "lots of other codecs" that aren't "commonly used", exactly? All of them have been commonly used in Flash. Here's a list that will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Media_type_support

There aren't many codecs in that list. H.264 is the newest only introduced in 2007. Even so plenty of sites like the BBC still cheerfully use VP6.

You haven't looked at percentages for browsing video in mobile devices I take it.

You haven't looked at percentages for browsing video in mobile devices relative to all other web traffic I take it. StatCounter says 4.1%:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-200912-201012

If iOS devices "were not that important" it would not the be the case that MANY sites would have transitioned to feeding them h.264 video directly.

You mean those sites that were already serving H.264 video in Flash and just also added serving them in a video tag? That's not much of a transition.

Nothing terribly substantive in your argument I'm afraid.

Why not ask them - today YouTube does exactly that.

Ah, concession that the transition is occurring. That's progress.

They cannot because of IE and iOS marketshare.

When you say "IE" I presume you mean IE9. That same IE9 that will continue to have the Flash plugin? That same IE9 that can play WebM content in the video tag? IE has been overtaken by Firefox as the number one browser in Europe:

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/firefox-overtakes-internet-explorer-in-europe-in-browser-wars

Add Chrome and Opera into the mix to hit IE in its weak spot for massive damage.

Flash supports a lot of other codecs that are not commonly used.

What are these "lots of other codecs" that aren't "commonly used", exactly? All of them have been commonly used in Flash. Here's a list that will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video#Media_type_support

There aren't many codecs in that list. H.264 is the newest only introduced in 2007. Even so plenty of sites like the BBC still cheerfully use VP6.

You haven't looked at percentages for browsing video in mobile devices I take it.

You haven't looked at percentages for browsing video in mobile devices relative to all other web traffic I take it. StatCounter says 4.1%:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-200912-201012

If iOS devices "were not that important" it would not the be the case that MANY sites would have transitioned to feeding them h.264 video directly.

You mean those sites that were already serving H.264 video in Flash and just also added serving them in a video tag? That's not much of a transition.

Nothing terribly substantive in your argument I'm afraid.

Not to mention Google and everyone else seems to be missing the gigantic elephant standing over by the potted plants: Hardware acceleration.

This is a specious argument. By this line of reasoning there would never be any change in video codecs. Let's not forget that mobile web traffic is at most 5% of all web traffic. StatCounter has it at 4.1%:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-monthly-200912-201012

Let's also not forget that many devices use a general purpose DSP which can be used for WebM acceleration just as easily as it is used for H.264 acceleration. Even Theora can be accelerated on such devices:

http://www.schleef.org/blog/2009/11/11/theora-on-ti-c64x-dsp-and-omap3/

Many devices are therefore software upgradable to support WebM acceleration. Combine this knowledge with the likes of Nvidia and TI introducing hardware with WebM acceleration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcsfOMbfix8
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-2.html

And the conclusion is that this is less a gigantic elephant, more a pot-bellied pig.

If OLPC XO-1 threatened Intel enough to start the netbook market and has reached two million poor kids in third-world countries thus far, XO-1.75 may help start the ARM-powered Linux laptop market.

Deployment of XO laptops

Global: 1.8 million

Latin America: 1.5 million

Peru: 870,000
Uruguay: 460,000
Columbia 65,000
Argentina 60,000
Mexico 50,000

Africa: 135,000

Rwanda: 120,000

Asia: 24,200

Oceania: 10,000

Australia: 5,000

The geek has some explaining to do when his allegedly potent combination of durable, cheap, laptop hardware, FOSS software and constructivist philosophy of education finds almost no acceptance beyond a single language, region and culture.

As for resuscitating Linux-on-the-Netbook, it isn't easy to make to make the case that OLPC has been a significant force for a broader adoption of Linux anywhere on the planet.

Mobile vs Desktop - South America
  Top 5 Operating Systems - South America

If OLPC XO-1 threatened Intel enough to start the netbook market and has reached two million poor kids in third-world countries thus far, XO-1.75 may help start the ARM-powered Linux laptop market.

Deployment of XO laptops

Global: 1.8 million

Latin America: 1.5 million

Peru: 870,000
Uruguay: 460,000
Columbia 65,000
Argentina 60,000
Mexico 50,000

Africa: 135,000

Rwanda: 120,000

Asia: 24,200

Oceania: 10,000

Australia: 5,000

The geek has some explaining to do when his allegedly potent combination of durable, cheap, laptop hardware, FOSS software and constructivist philosophy of education finds almost no acceptance beyond a single language, region and culture.

As for resuscitating Linux-on-the-Netbook, it isn't easy to make to make the case that OLPC has been a significant force for a broader adoption of Linux anywhere on the planet.

Mobile vs Desktop - South America
  Top 5 Operating Systems - South America

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201012-201012-bar

Really? It's 3rd yes, but it's bigger than everyone under it combined.

Did you just threaten half the people in the world with a lawsuit if we don't all switch to either IE or Safari? Good luck with that bud. Firefox + Chrome + Opera = 49.94% of marketshare, IE + Safari = 49.48%

Had they done that then they wouldn't have had the issues with Intel back stabbing them nor Microsoft wasting their time. Better late than never I guess.

OLPC was sold to the third world education minister as a one-size-fits-all, take-it-or-leave-it bundle.

The XO hardware. The open source software. The Sugar UI. The constructivist philosophy of education straight from the Western media lab.

The minister wasn't buying.

The plain truth of it is that of the 1.8 million XO laptops deployed, about 120,000 are in Rwanda and all but a tiny fraction of the rest in Latin America. OLPC: Summary of laptop orders [Dec 26, 2010]

Uruguay has been a success story for a OLPC - and, somewhat more modestly, perhaps, for Linux. OS - Uruguay

But that is as good as it gets. OS - Peru

Had they done that then they wouldn't have had the issues with Intel back stabbing them nor Microsoft wasting their time. Better late than never I guess.

OLPC was sold to the third world education minister as a one-size-fits-all, take-it-or-leave-it bundle.

The XO hardware. The open source software. The Sugar UI. The constructivist philosophy of education straight from the Western media lab.

The minister wasn't buying.

The plain truth of it is that of the 1.8 million XO laptops deployed, about 120,000 are in Rwanda and all but a tiny fraction of the rest in Latin America. OLPC: Summary of laptop orders [Dec 26, 2010]

Uruguay has been a success story for a OLPC - and, somewhat more modestly, perhaps, for Linux. OS - Uruguay

But that is as good as it gets. OS - Peru

Huh? I'm not statistician but Android has risen when iOS has suffered, I think Android is eating everyone's cake. ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-200912-201012 )

Yes, in other words the great majority of people in North America who visit websites.

FTFY.
(see here: http://gs.statcounter.com/press/firefox-overtakes-internet-explorer-in-europe-in-browser-wars).

An anonymous reader adds news that Google's Chrome browser is nearing 10% market share.

Chrome took another 0.72% of the market last month, and NetApplications is on the low side of things. StatCounter now says 14.85%, up 1.5% in the last month.

I'm seeing the same thing on my Calcudoku puzzle stats page. Google Chrome share now 13% for logged in users (IE 45%, Firefox 37%).

One thing I still need to do is break down the results by the difficulty level of the puzzles solved, to see if there's a correlation between IQ and choice of browser :-)

An anonymous reader adds news that Google's Chrome browser is nearing 10% market share.

Seems nobody's commenting on the browser stats. That XP is in a slow decline and Win7 on the rise is simply natural, it's clearly better than Vista and XP is getting long in the tooth. Chrome took another 0.72% of the market last month, and NetApplications is on the low side of things. StatCounter now says 14.85%, up 1.5% in the last month. At that rate, they'd overtake Firefox within the year. Firefox is holding steady and IE loses, in fact in Europe it now says Firefox is the dominant web browser with 38.11% over IEs 37.52%. Recently I've been seeing Chrome ads all over place and clearly it is working taking users from IE that Firefox never reached. That is much more likely to have an impact on the future than the slow decline of XP.

Lock-in never seems to trouble anyone but the geek.

Top 5 Operating Systems (Global)
    Top 8 Mobile OSs In North America

A year's worth of data refutes that statement.

The problem is apps...

Apps are not going to be a problem when you are porting from an OS with a 90% share of the market as whole.

Mobile vs. Desktop (Global)
  Mobile vs. Desktop (North America)

if you go arm you will need new apps regardless and if people have learned anything over the past 15 years they should take this chance to break free of the lock-in rather than getting caught up in another round.

Lock-in never seems to trouble anyone but the geek.

Top 5 Operating Systems (Global)
  Top 8 Mobile OSs In North America

The problem is apps...

Apps are not going to be a problem when you are porting from an OS with a 90% share of the market as whole.

Mobile vs. Desktop (Global)
  Mobile vs. Desktop (North America)

if you go arm you will need new apps regardless and if people have learned anything over the past 15 years they should take this chance to break free of the lock-in rather than getting caught up in another round.

Lock-in never seems to trouble anyone but the geek.

Top 5 Operating Systems (Global)
  Top 8 Mobile OSs In North America

The problem is apps...

Apps are not going to be a problem when you are porting from an OS with a 90% share of the market as whole.

Mobile vs. Desktop (Global)
  Mobile vs. Desktop (North America)

if you go arm you will need new apps regardless and if people have learned anything over the past 15 years they should take this chance to break free of the lock-in rather than getting caught up in another round.

Lock-in never seems to trouble anyone but the geek.

Top 5 Operating Systems (Global)
  Top 8 Mobile OSs In North America

The problem is apps...

Apps are not going to be a problem when you are porting from an OS with a 90% share of the market as whole.

Mobile vs. Desktop (Global)
  Mobile vs. Desktop (North America)

if you go arm you will need new apps regardless and if people have learned anything over the past 15 years they should take this chance to break free of the lock-in rather than getting caught up in another round.

Lock-in never seems to trouble anyone but the geek.

Top 5 Operating Systems (Global)
  Top 8 Mobile OSs In North America

they are becoming increasingly irrelevant on the desktop as people are using mobile devices more and more for their needs

Operating System Market Share

Windows 91%
OSX 5%
iOS 1.36%
Linux 0.93%
Android 0.31%
Symbian 0.26%
BlackBerry 0.11%

For the global breakdown by country and region: Mobile vs. Desktop

"9 To 5"

"7 to 11" "Do you know where your children are?"

The geek might usefully ask himself how mobile the world at work or the world at home really is. The primary use of the smartphone, after all, remains the everyday, ordinary, telephone call.

Apple computer sales have been growing handsomely

All increases in sales look phenomenal when you start from a small enough base.

2. it is a good opportunity for them to pull the old Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

The WebM video scarcely exists outside a YouTube transcode. H.264 is in a lot of places in the world beyond the web that you will find Windows. For a sampling, try Google Shopping for "H.264." 67,000 hits.

"Extinction?" Hahaha! If anything, traditional Linux distros are gaining popularity right now - although Linux is basically starting from zero so it's still only on a tiny fraction of computers. But there most definitely isn't any significant decline. Even Statcounter shows it wavering between 0.6 and 0.8%, with a decline of 0.06% between July 2008 and November 2010:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-200807-201012

The fact that Linux has held its ground against the huge increase in the number of mainstream OSes over the last few years shows that it isn't going anywhere.

Netflix streaming works on PS3, Xbox, wii, mac, windows, iphone, ipad, a number of set-top TV boxes like the Roku and the WD ones, several TVs with integrated instant watch, and several Blu-Ray players. They're trying to get as many eyes in front of their product as they can.

The real story here, I think, is the extinction of the traditional Linux distribution as a client OS for the home user. OSX and the iOS are successful. Windows 7 is successful. Android is successful - and there is probably room for Chrome.

None of these operating systems have a problem with protected content - and none are suffering from lackluster OEM support.

But Linux - as the geek understands it - is slipping below the radar even in countries even in places where the FOSS zealot can tout his biggest success stories. StatCounter offers a good -free- global view with full breakdown by counries and regions.

Statcounter global http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-na-monthly-200911-201011

#1 browser in Ukraine, exchanging #1 spot with FF in Russian Federation, nearing 50% and far above other browsers in Belarus; generally a very notable share in most of ex Warsaw Pact. Some worldwide stats appear to be underreporting, by focusing on pages most likely to be visited by specific demographics / rarely visited by some others. How Opera is the #1 mobile web browser worldwide by website stats (despite most of its users being in places with expensive data access, certainly frugal about number of pages visited) might help one day, when those people shift to desktops.

Opera addons are at least based on W3C widget specs...

(if you really want speed you'd better not ignore Opera BTW - especially in cases when it really matters (slow machine, slow connection; this contributes to CIS popularity))

Anyway - they have healthy, rising profitability as is (also during the last 3 years)

#1 browser in Ukraine, exchanging #1 spot with FF in Russian Federation, nearing 50% and far above other browsers in Belarus; generally a very notable share in most of ex Warsaw Pact. Some worldwide stats appear to be underreporting, by focusing on pages most likely to be visited by specific demographics / rarely visited by some others. How Opera is the #1 mobile web browser worldwide by website stats (despite most of its users being in places with expensive data access, certainly frugal about number of pages visited) might help one day, when those people shift to desktops.

Opera addons are at least based on W3C widget specs...

(if you really want speed you'd better not ignore Opera BTW - especially in cases when it really matters (slow machine, slow connection; this contributes to CIS popularity))

Anyway - they have healthy, rising profitability as is (also during the last 3 years)

#1 browser in Ukraine, exchanging #1 spot with FF in Russian Federation, nearing 50% and far above other browsers in Belarus; generally a very notable share in most of ex Warsaw Pact. Some worldwide stats appear to be underreporting, by focusing on pages most likely to be visited by specific demographics / rarely visited by some others. How Opera is the #1 mobile web browser worldwide by website stats (despite most of its users being in places with expensive data access, certainly frugal about number of pages visited) might help one day, when those people shift to desktops.

Opera addons are at least based on W3C widget specs...

(if you really want speed you'd better not ignore Opera BTW - especially in cases when it really matters (slow machine, slow connection; this contributes to CIS popularity))

Anyway - they have healthy, rising profitability as is (also during the last 3 years)

this is why I hate not being able to just walk into a high street shop and buy a computer pre-loaded with Linux or with no OS pre-loaded at all...
far too many sales that end up with the OS being wiped to replace with Linux or else reversion rights being exercised to install XP are being counted as Windows 7 sales...

This is the geek in Fantasyland.

The webstat counts users not licensees - and it doesn't much matter whether you look at Net Applications, StatCounter or W3Schools. Win 7 took about a 20 to 25% market share in less than one year.

In the strongholds of FOSS, Win 7 is performing very, very, well against Linux. Germany

Bare bones sells to the hobbyist and the IT pro. The OEM PC as home appliance or office machine is sold under a warranty and will - at least ideally - arrive properly configured for respectable performance based on its price point and intended use.

If it doesn't, it goes back.

That is the middle class shopper's level of comfort in all things.

Walmart.com has 231 Windows laptops in stock for the holidays, 99 Windows desktops.

118 Windows printers, 80 webcams, 727 flavors of the Windows mouse, keyboard and joystick and about 1,000 retail boxed Windows software packages, equally divided between productivity apps and games.

Retailers love a product which can deliver such extraordinary after-market sales.

In other news, real statistics collected from browsers used by US residents visiting various minor and major websites, the market share looks like this:

Windows XP -- 36.98%
Windows 7 -- 23.25%
Windows Vista -- 23.01%

Considering that Windows 7 is one year old now, it is incredibly impressive to see its one-quarter market share. If you say it is made up, you are simply mistaken or a troll. Windows XP with its one third looks just pathetic now.

Source: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-US-monthly-201010-201011-bar

The real news is that Opera is number one in the Ukraine.

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-UA-monthly-200910-201010

And the women there are hot too. All I need is an AK47 to keep off the gopniks and a plane ticket and I'll be all set.

I think statcounter.com per-country stats just plain aren't reliable. Their graph for Croatia shows Firefox in a clear lead, but some generic popular Croatian sites whose logs I happen to have access to show a completely different picture - for example last month 43-49% IE, 35-37% Firefox, 8-12% Safari. I'm guessing their sample of local users/sites isn't representative for whatever reason - most likely, they just don't care.

Yeah. If you look at the graph, you'll see that Firefox is lower now than a year ago. If Chrome hadn't been there it's quite possible they'd be the biggest already.

The above October browser market share facts are correct. Their interpretation is subject to debate. Here are the facts without interpretation.

The news is that Chrome is eating market share at 0.5-1% per month, check out the graph here. I'm more interested to see what this means for Firefox, pretty soon they might not be that interesting to back. I'd say it's more Firefox that should be worried what will happen if IE stems the tide to alternative browsers and Chrome starts putting Firefox into a decline. The streams could cross already in 2011 if this trend keeps going...

Ukraine ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PL-monthly-200910-201010 ) and Ukraine ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PL-monthly-200910-201010 ) seem to have the weakest IE market share. 19% and 20%. Still, there are some sites that require IE (I know of 2 banks).

Ukraine ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PL-monthly-200910-201010 ) and Ukraine ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-PL-monthly-200910-201010 ) seem to have the weakest IE market share. 19% and 20%. Still, there are some sites that require IE (I know of 2 banks).

I see your Germany and I throw in a Phillipines, where Firefox is also dying BTW, and top it with some Mongolia, Malaysia, Myanmar and, the final blow, Indonesia. IE is doing extremely well in Taiwan, China and South Korea, though. I noticed that IE is doing quite well in all the "Anglo-Saxon" countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

I see your Germany and I throw in a Phillipines, where Firefox is also dying BTW, and top it with some Mongolia, Malaysia, Myanmar and, the final blow, Indonesia. IE is doing extremely well in Taiwan, China and South Korea, though. I noticed that IE is doing quite well in all the "Anglo-Saxon" countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

I see your Germany and I throw in a Phillipines, where Firefox is also dying BTW, and top it with some Mongolia, Malaysia, Myanmar and, the final blow, Indonesia. IE is doing extremely well in Taiwan, China and South Korea, though. I noticed that IE is doing quite well in all the "Anglo-Saxon" countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

I see your Germany and I throw in a Phillipines, where Firefox is also dying BTW, and top it with some Mongolia, Malaysia, Myanmar and, the final blow, Indonesia. IE is doing extremely well in Taiwan, China and South Korea, though. I noticed that IE is doing quite well in all the "Anglo-Saxon" countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

I see your Germany and I throw in a Phillipines, where Firefox is also dying BTW, and top it with some Mongolia, Malaysia, Myanmar and, the final blow, Indonesia. IE is doing extremely well in Taiwan, China and South Korea, though. I noticed that IE is doing quite well in all the "Anglo-Saxon" countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

I see your Germany and I throw in a Phillipines, where Firefox is also dying BTW, and top it with some Mongolia, Malaysia, Myanmar and, the final blow, Indonesia. IE is doing extremely well in Taiwan, China and South Korea, though. I noticed that IE is doing quite well in all the "Anglo-Saxon" countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

I see your Germany and I throw in a Phillipines, where Firefox is also dying BTW, and top it with some Mongolia, Malaysia, Myanmar and, the final blow, Indonesia. IE is doing extremely well in Taiwan, China and South Korea, though. I noticed that IE is doing quite well in all the "Anglo-Saxon" countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

I see your Germany and I throw in a Phillipines, where Firefox is also dying BTW, and top it with some Mongolia, Malaysia, Myanmar and, the final blow, Indonesia. IE is doing extremely well in Taiwan, China and South Korea, though. I noticed that IE is doing quite well in all the "Anglo-Saxon" countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

I don't know, I don't think they have. If when having (almost, where are one month away from that point ?) the market share (in Europe) means you have lost, then I guess everyone is a loser:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-eu-monthly-200909-201009

That was a joke, right? You don't really think that all the millions of desktop Linux users just up and vanished because some idiot at PCWorld wanted a catchy headline?

StatCounter provides a global breakdown of OS market share by region and country.

It is something of a wake-up call when you look at these numbers and compare them to the endless stream of Linux success stories posted to Slashdot.

I agree that most Mac users aren't exactly the brightest computer users, but get real, most Windows users don't even know other OS's exist, let alone what an OS is. Mindless flock of sheep, really.

And there you have it.

The attitude that guarantees a declining 0.85% market share for Linux as a client OS. Top Operating System Share Trend, StatCounter Global Stats

The masses may not know Linux, but they have come to know the geek all to well - and they do not like what they see in him.

I predict within six months "OpenOffice" will be dead and "LibreOffice" (or similar community-owned fork) will have supplanted it.

LibreOffice is in beta. LibreOffice is on hold.

"This beta release is not intended for production use! Be advised that the current beta might replace your OpenOffice.org installation." LibreOffice Productivity Suite

The fork does not sell a core productivity app to your boss.

It suggests to him, among many other things, the possibility of further fragmentation and more bad blood.

The "similiar community-owned fork."

Linux has a 0.85% global share of the client. iOS tops Linux. The numbers are no better when you look at a breakdown by countries and regions. Stat Counter Global Stats

If Oracle chooses, it is strongly positioned to keep OpenOffice.org dominant in the OSX and Windows markets, assuming "dominance" means anything in an environment where MS Office is so strong.