Linux Reaches 1% Usage Share

je ne sais quoi writes "The April data is out for the Net Applications 'market share' survey of operating systems (more accurately referred to as a usage share). For the first time, Linux has reached 1%. This past month the Linux share increased by 0.12% which is well above the average monthly increase of 0.02%. Historically, the Net Applications estimate of market share has been lower than that of other organizations who measure this, but the abnormally large increase reported this month brings it closer to the median estimate of 1.11%. For other operating systems, Windows XP continued its slow decline by 0.64% to 62.21%, whereas Vista use is still increasing to 23.90%, but its rate of adoption is slowing. That is, this month's increase of 0.48% is well below the 12-month average increase of 0.78% and down from the peak rate of increase of 1.00% per month on average in January-February 2008. The total Windows share dropped to 87.90%. Mac OS use decreased slightly to 9.73% from 9.77%, but usage share of the iPhone and iPod Touch combined increased by 0.1%."

Comments

Boy oh boy!

[BadAnalogyGuy]

I can't wait! At this rate, 2024 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop!

Re:Boy oh boy!

[A. B3ttik]

My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago.

Who do you think you're fooling with this?

Re:Boy oh boy!

[ColdWetDog]

A pair of rabbits will produce offspring fairly regularly. This does not mean that the number of rabbits grows at a linear rate.

Yeah, but we're talking about Jackalopes here. Not clear at all if their population growth follows a geometric progression.

Re:Boy oh boy!

[B1oodAnge1]

it's easy:

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Re:Boy oh boy!

[Culture20]

My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago.

Who do you think you're fooling with this?

More importantly, is the apostrophe [iend's] or [iends']? That's an important distinction.

Re:Boy oh boy!

[miknix]

In contrast, I have neighbors that calls me for help saying that their anti-virus has detected "cookies" getting inside their computers - What should they do??

Re:Boy oh boy!

[Niris]

You, good sir, are no Hari Seldon

Re:GIGO?

[Devout_IPUite]

100% of claims on how many statistics are made up on the spot are made up on the spot.

Re:But seriously folks

[Anonymous Coward]

All that John Deere really needs to do the same thing is a cupholder, spinning rims, and a small, flat surface for snorting coke.

+ or - 1%

[Anonymous Coward]

With a error margin of + or - 1%

Re:what's the margin of error?

[hey!]

The margin of error is the numerical magnitude by which, within a specified degree of statistical certainty, the true value of a figure for a population may vary from a specific statistical estimate of of it. due to the effects of chance on the composition of the sample population used to calculate that estimate.

But that's not important now.

Quick! Do your part!

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
"Platform"="X11; U; Linux i686"

Re:But seriously folks

[daveime]

Simian lol ... phones for Monkeys. And I thought that was iPhone's marketing campaign ?

And where's Tivo? Linux or Other?

[billstewart]

How many Tivos are out there? Have they caught up with Macs yet?