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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

OneStat: Windows Continues to Dominate

Me, in WinInfo:

Microsoft's next generation operating system, Windows Vista, continues to be horribly late in coming, but that hasn't stopped the current version, Windows XP, from dominating the OS market. Web analytics company OneStat.com says that Windows XP is responsible for almost 87 percent of all Web usage, while all Windows versions combined account for 97 percent of Web usage.

Microsoft's Windows dominates the operating system market with a global usage share of 96.97 percent," OneStat.com reports. "The leading operating system on the Web is Microsoft's Windows XP with a global usage share of 86.80 percent. Microsoft's Windows 2000 has a global usage share of 6.09 percent and is the second most popular OS on the Web."

OK, so I realize stating that "Windows still dominates" is like saying "people breathe air," but there seems to be some kind of an insane notion these days that Windows is on the decline. There's no actual evidence of that. Windows 2000--now over 6 years old--has three times the usage share of OS X, while even Windows 98--over eight years old and no longer supported by Microsoft--has more usage share than OS X. Just a thought.

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