The number of people using Linux to browse the internet seems to have actually declined since Windows XP came out
I would guess a large number of those Linux-using internet browsing persons are masking their browser IDs so pages will think they're using IE. For me, my bank won't even attempt to load some pages of its site unless I use IE, so I tell Konqueror to announce itself as IE 6 on WinXP. There's tons of sites out there that do the same.
And where exactly are you getting your figures from about "Linux's total real end-user marketshare"?
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The number of people using Linux to browse the internet seems to have actually declined since Windows XP came out
I would guess a large number of those Linux-using internet browsing persons are masking their browser IDs so pages will think they're using IE. For me, my bank won't even attempt to load some pages of its site unless I use IE, so I tell Konqueror to announce itself as IE 6 on WinXP. There's tons of sites out there that do the same.
And where exactly are you getting your figures from about "Linux's total real end-user marketshare"?