Windows 7 Share Grows At XP's Expense

CWmike writes "Microsoft's Windows ran to stay in place last month as Window 7's market share gains made up for the largest-ever declines in Windows XP and Vista, data released today by Web metrics firm Net Applications showed. By these numbers, Windows 7's gains were primarily at the expense of Windows XP. For each copy of Vista replaced by Windows 7 during November, more than six copies of XP were swapped out. Meanwhile, Apple's Mac OS X lost share during November... betcha Ballmer is having an extra giddy time with that news. Linux came up a winner last month, returning to the 1% share mark for the first time since July. Linux's all-time high in Net Applications' rankings was May 2009, when it nearly reached 1.2%."

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Re:Linux 20% market share

[HermMunster]

Those data are not valid. There are sites that have collected this data for the past 8-10 years which show that Linux has over 4% of the market while Mac has less. The data from those sites are collected from over 20,000 popular sites (not targeted toward the benefits of one OS). For instance, a gaming site would likely have a huge bent toward Windows whereas Linux and Mac would barely show as a blip. Please use the sites that are non-biased even in an inadvertent way.

Re:Correction

[HermMunster]

And this number is off by a large factor as compared to other sites that collect information from 20,000 websites over an 8-10 year period. Those other site statistics show Linux in the 4-5% market share and the Mac in the 3% share. So, how come they are different?

We can even evaluate this ourselves. What is 92% of 1 billion computers? 920,000,000 computers. That leaves 80 million to the rest of the crowd. That itself is impossible as Linux has about 100 million users world-wide. The Mac, at the time of the iPhone introduction had 20 million active OSX based Macs. That was 2-3 years ago. Apple's share has grown and so has Linux. Clearly the numbers show a much greater share than 1%.

I have 13 computers using Linux and 3 using OSX with an iPhone to boot. I doubt I have been counted on any of those machines. I also have 5 Vista machines and one Win7 machine.