Linux Surpasses Windows in PC Market Share
September 2, 2007 at 10:52 am | Posted in Linux, Stats, W3Counter, Win98, Windows | 2 CommentsYes, you read that correctly. According to the latest W3Counter Global Stats, Linux has finally surpassed Windows in PC market share.
Windows 98 that is.
The entire Linux collective family has finally taken the lead (#5), which is like saying generations of some mob family has finally beaten your great grandmother (who you know doesn’t have much longer to live, but keeps sticking around for another day) after 9 years in a race.
Next up is Vista (#4) and Mac OS X (#3)
| Operating Systems | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Windows XP | 83.48% |
| 2 | Windows 2000 | 3.94% |
| 3 | Mac OS X | 3.73% |
| 4 | Windows Vista | 3.46% |
| 5 | Linux | 1.34% |
| 6 | Windows 98 | 1.34% |
| 7 | Windows 2003 | 0.69% |
| 8 | Windows ME | 0.47% |
| 9 | Windows NT | 0.06% |
| 10 | Mac PowerPC | 0.04% |
Congratulations to the Linux family, for finally beating my great grandmother.
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Carl J 
I have fedora 7 Installed on my laptop and it’s very nice and very performant. It has all the eye candy of vista but without all the sluggish performance that Vista is known for. Interesting post..
Comment by kirkquesnelle23— September 2, 2007 #
You must be using KDE?
I can’t remember the last time I seriously played around with any flavours of linux, but I do know that it was before Mandrake changed their name, and before Ubuntu was out.
As for sluggish performance on Vista, thats the one problem I haven’t experienced yet on here.
Comment by carlj— September 2, 2007 #