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.