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  1. Re:based on what? by confused+one · · Score: 1 · on Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5

    And my point is that you shouldn't present guesswork as fact. OK, facts, based on market research

    Mac: 3.74%
    linux: 1.38%
    http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

    Mac: 6.61%
    linux: 0.81%
    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

    Maybe in a handful of latte sipping enclaves of North America. In the real world, most universities and research labs have never been able to afford either Macs or UNIX workstations; they are upgrading their aging Windows NT PCs to Linux and really happy with it. well, in the math department of my particular latte sipping liberal arts university we use Macs. In the physics department of the same latte sipping liberal arts university we use a mix of Solaris, Macs and PCs. All of the PC's are old (800MHz). Newer machines are Solaris or Mac, but I'm seeing fewer solaris boxes and more Macs being purchased. By the way, I like my coffee black.

    If you want some data, look at Google Trend data Funny that, I did exactly that with the search terms "linux, mac" and it came back with Mac passing linux Q2 2006.
  2. Re:Browser Metrics by I'm+Don+Giovanni · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words

    "I tend to use http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php more than the w3schools stats, they're usually more accurate since w3schools has a very specific audience."

    It may be more accurate, but still not very, considering that it says that Latvia makes up 4% of web usage. ;)

  3. Another site by Savage-Rabbit · · Score: 1 · on Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words

    I tend to use http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php more than the w3schools stats, they're usually more accurate since w3schools has a very specific audience. These guys have some interesting statistics:
    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/default.aspx

    I won't speculate on the accuracy of these sites but it's interesting to compare the w3 statistics with the hitslink.com statistics. Linux for example gets twice the share on the w3 counter as on the hitslink.com site. Vista gets fewer hits on the w3 counter than on the hitslink.com site, it's currently standing at 5,4%, I thought it would be in more widespread use by now. The older Macs are completely missing from the w3 counter although I know for a fact that loads of people are still using them.

  4. Browser Metrics by eplawless · · Score: 0 · on Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words

    I tend to use http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php more than the w3schools stats, they're usually more accurate since w3schools has a very specific audience.

  5. Re:Vista sales by rvw · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Sees Stronger XP Sales in FY08

    Wow, 78% of sales? That's pretty impressive, considering how many people are actually using Vista. How representative are these stats if Latvia makes up 4% of all visitors?
  6. Vista sales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative · on Microsoft Sees Stronger XP Sales in FY08

    Wow, 78% of sales? That's pretty impressive, considering how many people are actually using Vista.

  7. Re:Not about market share by bunratty · · Score: 4, Informative · on Mozilla Exec Claims Apple is Hunting OSS Browsers

    Right. In my post and the one I was responding to, "they" refers to Mozilla. Mozilla has a 15 to 25% share depending on which web stats you believe. In comparison, the share of OSX users is only about 4 to 5% of desktop computers. Safari will have to become very popular on Windows before it's even the #2 browser. If they come out with such a superior browser that so many users want to switch, that can only be a good thing, as John Lilly has said.

  8. How many are using Vista? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on DRAM Makers Suffer Due to Lackluster Vista Adoption

    Some stats on vista:

    http://boingboing.net/stats/awstats.boingboing.net .osdetail.html - 4% (june 4, 2007)
    http://w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp - 2.6% (may 2007)
    http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?date=2007 -05-30 - 1.91% (May 30, 2007)

    Varies a bit by site, but even 4% is quite low...

  9. Digg Usage Stats by Dan+Grossman · · Score: -1 · on Firefox Usage Climbing
    Slightly tech-slanted web stats service W3Counter has public global stats showing a rise in Firefox usage to nearly 25% right now. After being on Digg twice in a two-day period, I aggregated browser statistics from the over 30,000 unique visitors arriving at the linked page, and came up with these statistics:
    1 Firefox 1.5 58%
    2 Internet Explorer 6.0 24%
    3 Opera 9.0 3%
    4 Firefox 1.0 3%
    5 Internet Explorer 7.0 2%
    6 Mozilla 1.8 1%
    7 Mozilla 1.7 1%
    8 Opera 8.5 1%
    9 Internet Explorer 5.5 1%
    10 Safari 2.0 1%