Tag: MARKET-SHARE

With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 and developments like Moblin and HP's MIE creating quite stir, plenty of people were saying that 2009 would be 'the year of Linux on the desktop.' Not that the statement hasn't been made before, but there appeared to be some real momentum this time around. Enter the Windows 7 RC. A quick look at StatCounter's most recent data shows Linux use at .71% and ...

The MarketShare numbers are in for April 2009, and there's a little bit of good news for Linux. While there's still a long way to go before catching up to Mac, Linux has finally claimed more than a 1% share of client devices. With some serious buzz behind Linux already this year like HP's stunning Ubuntu remix for netbooks and their decision to offer OpenSUSE on business notebooks, as well as ...

If you gauged the market share of various operating systems by counting the number of Macs vs PCs you see in the typical urban coffee shop, you'd probably believe that Apple and Microsoft were duking it out like Republicans and Democrats in a close US presidential election. But the truth of the matter is that Microsoft is the dominant company when it comes to consumer oriented computers. In ...