Linux Market Share

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Very interesting..almost 5%..I like it I like it.

I love that XP is still above 50%..too funny.

Those stats aren't any more reliable than statcounter's statistics. Probably worse since w3schools is just a single site and statcounter has many sites.

But inaccurate statistics are fun to talk about..you can't be wrong (too much) if the stats are already fuzzy..;-)

The enterprise is not about to abandon XP. My company has maybe 1,000 XP desktops. This is the publishing business, which has been hammered big-time. We haven't bought hardware since 2005, hence XP everywhere. We even stopped buying Apple hardware for the most part, although I hear we're ordering a laptop (photographers love Apple).

We all know those stats are inaccurate anyhow. But what i really want to know is what is the LINUX maketshare how many devices are out there in the world running linux. Especially with the explosion of andriod devices and other non desktop computers we have witnessed as of late it has to be huge!

I don't think Android counts. It's embedded, rather than a choice of the user.

>...It's embedded, rather than a choice of the user.

While that's true, the user is choosing Android over the iPhone, Symbian, or Palm-OS; whether they know it or not.

> whether they know it or not.

That is certainly true.

The number that I am most curious about refers to choice.

I bought a Zaurus 5500 _because_ it ran (and still runs) Linux. I bought white-box machines deliberately to install Linux.

...and so on.

Quoting: I don't think Android counts. It's embedded, rather than a choice of the user.

Then windoze market share stats don't count either. It's forced upon everyone who buys a computer, rather than being a choice of the user. Right?

> Then windoze market share stats don't count either.

I agree with you. While the number of people who deliberately choose Windows is going to be large, I think leaving out the "It was just what came on the machine" people out of it is a more honest comparison.

Until some significant preload deals start happening, this is all an academic exercise.

Whether it's Ubuntu, or "other," a fully loaded Linux desktop offers significant value over a crapware-laden Windows desktop, and the fact that no major hardware vendors see fit to both actually offer this while at the same time extolling the virtues of a fully equipped application environment and not just preaching to the already-using-Linux choir Linux on the desktop will go nowhere.

Preloads. That's the word.

> a fully loaded Linux desktop offers significant value over a crapware-laden Windows desktop

To the user, not the vendor.

To some extent the vendor wants to make the customer happy, not just make Microsoft happy. At least you'd think.

My question: Does preload of un-paid-for MS Office allow for OEMs to get Windows for free?

Quoting:To some extent the vendor wants to make the customer happy, not just make Microsoft happy. At least you'd think.

Not really. It isn't a question of who to make happy; the real question is, who must I, at all costs, NOT make unhappy?

Working towards a positive, and avoiding a negative, are not the same thing.

Actually it's a matter of making money. Sure, the customer is worse off buying antivirus and paying someone to remove malware, but the customer is worse off because they're paying that money to the guy selling the computer. As the saying goes, Windows is where the money is.