Linux, Windows, Mac market share

TigerLinux · 11-17-2010, 07:47 AM

anyone know the current market share for main desktop/notebook market share for mac, linux, windows?
any data?

TobiSGD · 11-17-2010, 08:00 AM

While marketshare of Windows and Mac OS X is counted in sold licensed copies, Linux isn't counted at all. If Linux would be counted it would make more sense to count it in users than in installed copies, because I can have an (virtually) unlimited count of installs on my systems with only one copy. That means that you can't compare these OSs in terms of marketshare directly.
So I can report only my personal market-share: 100% Linux, 0% Windows, 0% Mac OS X.

ronlau9 · 11-17-2010, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by TigerLinux

anyone know the current market share for main desktop/notebook market share for mac, linux, windows?
any data?

It depends on which market do mean ?
Top market ?
Middle market ?
Low market ?
Ore are looking to the markets as being one market .
Having a overall share of let say 8 % could mean that you dominate in a market share .

TigerLinux · 11-17-2010, 08:53 AM

let take USA as the 100% market,
and consider the number of users who 80% of the time using a particular OS.

mlangdn · 11-17-2010, 10:44 AM

I don't know if this is just the U.S. or not:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/oper...e.aspx?qprid=8

rokytnji · 11-17-2010, 11:57 AM

I guess it depends on pirated shares or market shares.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/te...racy.html?_r=2

mlangdn · 11-17-2010, 11:26 PM

That was an interesting article. Thanks rokytnji.