Linux market share drops as Win 7 launch looms
Since we reported on the July numbers from the same source, Linux market share has dropped from 2.02 percent to 1.97 percent, while Win7 has grown from 1.24 to 1.69 percent. At this rate it will be surprising if Windows 7 fails to overtake Linux before its official launch on October 22. The figure for all versions of Windows has, however, dropped a tad from 86.56 to 86.44 percent of the market.
OSX has grown a bit too - up to 7.11 from 6.92 percent. Rather more mysteriously, despite being about to bite the big one, Vista continues to grow market share, rising to 22.64 from 21.95 percent last month.
Over on the browser front, Mozilla fans will no doubt be pleased to note that Firefox 3.5 has leapt from 6.56 percent to 13.35 -
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Thomas
The author is collaborating with Microsoft and he has a pattern of attacking FOSS or Linux.
According to stats from this one source, GNU/Linux carries on gaining whereas OS X remains quite stable. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
Microsoft very own statistics (Ballmer's presentation, 2009) show that GNU/Linux exceeds Apple in market share on the desktop. Microsoft also considers GNU/Linux -- not Apple -- the #1 rival.
re: Thomas
For someone who continually bashes Microsoft and sides with Stallman and his FSF ninnies I'd wouldn't expect much sympathy with the "collaborating" or "attacking" statements.
You can see it for yourself.
You can see it for yourself. Thomas wrote about it.