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August 21st, 2006

Microsoft has 97% of OS market, says OneStat.com

Posted by Richard MacManus @ 5:30 pm

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Some pretty stunning stats from market analytics firm OneStat.com, which is reporting that Microsoft’s Windows OS family of products has 97% of the operating system market - "a global usage share of 96.97 percent", to be exact. The leading OS on the web is Windows XP, with 86.80% share. Microsoft’s Windows 2000 has a global usage share of 6.09 percent and is the second most popular OS on the web.

Meanwhile OneStat.com claims that Apple Macintosh has only 2.47 percent and Linux a mere 0.36 percent. OneStat.com says this research is "is based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day."

The 10 most popular operating systems in the world on the web according to OneStat.com are: 

1. Windows XP 86.80%
2. Windows 2000 6.09%
3. Windows 98 2.68%
4. Macintosh 2.32%
5. Windows ME 1.09%
6. Linux 0.36%
7. Windows NT 0.24%
8. Macintosh Power PC 0.15%

Source: OneStat.com

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Boasting, what a clever and innovative concept!
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Meanwhile, while we're at it, let's discuss the corporations telling people they need to get educated. (if ease-of... (Read the rest)
Posted by: HypnoToad Posted on: 09/09/06 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Pure, Adulterated, Crap  jeyost@... | 08/21/06
I wouldnt doubt the numbers........  ITJames5000 | 08/21/06
The Numbers...  Web20Explorer | 08/21/06
The Numbers...  wjgrimm | 09/08/06
What some companies do  tombalablomba | 08/22/06
What a load of hooey  tic swayback | 08/22/06
Dream on  wodahs1 | 08/22/06
So what indeed?  tic swayback | 08/22/06
How many visitors you get?  NonZealot | 08/22/06
A sampling, but not a random sampling  tic swayback | 08/22/06
a more careful reading...  JetJaguar | 08/23/06
Good point  tic swayback | 08/23/06
Define Agnostic  Edward Meyers | 08/22/06
dont forget  richvball44 | 08/23/06
Windows identity?  JetJaguar | 08/23/06
Identity  tic swayback | 08/23/06
For comparison ....  bportlock | 08/22/06
Those Numbers Jive wIth what is estimated by Gartner and IDC  Edward Meyers | 08/22/06
People prefer ME to Linux by 3 to 1.  Anton Philidor | 08/22/06
Congratulations Anton....  bportlock | 08/22/06
I have known several ME users...  Anton Philidor | 08/22/06
it's alright  Scott W | 08/22/06
win98 not that bad  stevey_d | 09/02/06
...and MSN blows Google out of the water.  WiredGuy | 08/22/06
Your suspicion is correct  tic swayback | 08/22/06
Boasting, what a clever and innovative concept!  HypnoToad | 09/09/06

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