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Operating System Market Share

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

These  charts  shows the market share of the six more important operating systems, after them you could see, SunOS 0.01%, HP-UX 0.00%, AIX 0.00%, FreeBSD 0.00%, SCP 0.00%, SCO 0.00%, OpenBSD 0.00%, OpenVMS 0.00% and NetBSD 0.00%. People should be careful interpreting this

 

chart, all the data come from real users , 160M monthly, accessing important websites.

Linux has been growing it’s market share monthly, started the year with ~.40% growth and closed with almost .70%. Very slowly Windows is loosing it’s market share to other operating systems, started with 93% and finished with 91.7%. Hype products came from 0 to 100 in a very short period. Almost 10% of the market share is dominated by UNIX like operating systems.

IN 2007

 

 

In  2009:

 

 
 View Trend Windows   87.90% 
 View Trend Mac   9.73% 
 View Trend Linux   1.02% 
 View Trend iPhone   0.55% 
 View Trend iPod Touch   0.15% 
 View Trend Android   0.07% 
 View Trend Java ME   0.07% 
 View Trend Symbian   0.06% 
 View Trend Windows Mobile   0.05% 
 View Trend Playstation   0.05% 
 View Trend BlackBerry   0.03% 
 View Trend FreeBSD   0.02% 
 View Trend Palm   0.02% 
 View Trend Nintendo Wii   0.01% 
 View Trend SunOS   0.01% 
 View Trend AIX   0.00% 
 View Trend NetBSD   0.00% 
 View Trend Web TV   0.00% 
 View Trend Nintendo DS   0.00% 
 View Trend BREW   0.00% 
 View Trend OpenBSD   0.00% <
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 View Trend OpenVMS   0.00% 
 View Trend HP-UX   0.00% 
 View Trend SCO   0.00% 
 View Trend SCP   0.00%

Linux usage share on client devices has surpassed 1% for the first time in our tracking.  Linux has been successful primarily as a server operating system, but client usage share has not kept pace with server share  Linux has reached this important milestone on the client as Linux-based systems have become more functional, easier to use, and pre-installed on computers from vendors like Dell.

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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

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