GNU/Linux up 60% YoY, Windows down 4%

Posted by eantoranz on May 5, 2009 5:44 AM EDT
Technology FLOSS; By Edmundo Carmona
Mail this story
Print this story

GNU/Linux had a market share of 0.63% in april 2008. One year later, it's (finally) reached 1,02%. If we look at the sheer number it's still laughable, right? Well, It's not laughable for two reasons: - It's an increase of over 60% year over year for GNU/Linux (the brighter side of having such a low number to start with, for sure). - Also, I bet they are not laughing at this at Redmond, Washington. Windows is one of two cash cows of Microsoft and losing a hundredth of the (potential) income these days plus having to almost give away Windows to be present on one of the few markets that's healthy nowadays (netbooks) is costing them hard cash.

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Groups: Linux, Microsoft

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.