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%."

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Ferris...Ferris...

[WED Fan]

My girlfriends mother bought a laptop...

Oh yeah? My mom's girlfriend's brother's doctor had this friend who knew a guy that had a sister-in-law, in another town, that once used Linux that was given to her by the Rabbi of an ultra-orthodox Mormon sect in Bolivia who knew a guy that had a sister that dated Ferris Bueller before he got sick and passed out at 31 Flavors.

Re:Boy oh boy!

[quickOnTheUptake]

It's worse than that: I plugged the numbers into Oo.org calc, and got a trendline: f(x) = 8.16*1.01^x where x is time in months (Starting 0 = june 08) and y is linux marketshare in 10ths of a percent.

• it will reach 2% about 6 1/2 years from now).
• it will hit 10% around 20 years form now
• it will hit 34% in about 30 years
• it will pass 50% in about 33 1/2 years
• it will have 100% penetration in just under 40 years

So depending on how you define "year of the linux desktop" you know without a doubt when it will come.