I thought readers - well some readers - might like to see one company's - Peach Discount Mortgage Broking's - take on operating system market shares. Here it is. Linux has a long way to go!
| Operating System | % of Total | |
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| 1. | Windows XP | 75.30% |
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| 2. | Windows 2000 | 11.95% |
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| 3. | Windows 98 | 5.66% |
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| 4. | Macintosh OS X | 1.59% |
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| 5. | Linux | 1.35% |
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| 6. | Windows ME | 1.35% |
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| 7. | Windows NT | 1.20% |
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| 8. | Macintosh PPC | 0.96% |
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| 9. | Windows 2003 | 0.56% |
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| 10. | Windows 95 | 0.08% |
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The figures are for home users. The situation is quite different in server land.
Are these based on hits to a certain website?
Yes.
The company I am with only supports windows on their intranet. Our business unit runs an array of ten servers, which are mission-critical-enterprise-double-plus-good; they are all Red Hat.
I used to run Thinkpads with variants of Red Hat on it. My iBook has replaced them. Despite using ubuntu recently and being surprised who neat a package it was, I wont be turning in my Apple Hardware and OSX operating system anytime soon.