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Links for Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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Interesting Links for Tuesday, January 26th 2010

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Interesting Links for Tuesday, January 26th 2010

And, most importantly… Report: Linux Gains Ground, Windows Stumbles. Apparently, according to Net Applications, Linux’s market share rose from 1 to 1.02 percent in December 2009, a small but hopeful increase. Windows marketshare fell from 92.52% to 92.21%.

Like any statistic, there are always multiple sources. The W3Counter.com reports are a bit brighter for Linux:

OSNov 2009Dec. 2009Change
Windows XP57.57%56.61%-0.96%
Windows Vista21.73%21.29%-0.44%
Windows 74.54%6.80%+2.26%
Windows (Other)1.85%1.73%-0.12%
Mac7.46%7.44%-0.02%
Linux1.80%2.14%+0.34%

If this is accurate, it shows Linux with a sifnigicant 1-month gain in marketshare. Also notable is that in December, Android showed up for the first time, at 0.08%. In all reasonabless, that can be added to the Linux row.

Also of interest are W3Counter’s browser stats:

BrowserNov 2009Dec. 2009Change
IE51.14%50.3%-0.84%
Firefox31.85%32%+0.15%
Safari4.58%4.62%+0.04%

Also worth noting on the Browser front is that IE8′s market share rose from 21.21% (November) to 22.43% (December) while Firefox 3.5′s share jumped from 20.49% in November to 22.18% in December, a very significant stride for the brand new Firefox version. While IE8 has been out considerably longer than Firefox 3.5, they’re already almost tied in market share (and if another jump like that happens, Firefox 3.5 will be in the lead next month).

Interesting Links for 2008-10-21

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