Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS Start the Market Share Ballet Market Share Smackdown: Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% Microsoft: Windows Vista Safer than OS X, Linux Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X vs. Linux - for the Last Time in 2007 Vista SP1 and XP SP3 vs. Mac OS X and Linux Microsoft Brings a Piece of Windows Vista to Linux and Mac OS X Vista SP2 and Windows 7 More Secure than Linux and Mac OS X Leopard Vista Growing to Match the Lack of Security of XP, Mac OS X and Linux Linux and Mac OS X Eat Away at Windows, Even with XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Mac OS X and Linux Left Scrambling for Wow Crumbs in the Windows Vista Dust Live.com to get social - share your own pages Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac OS X Mac OS X vs. Linux - Red Hat vs. Windows 98 and Above Including Windows Vista Want Security? Drop Windows and Move to Linux, or Mac OS X Windows 7 vs. Linux, Microsoft Trashes Open Source OS Mac OS X and Linux Continue to Erode Windows' Install Base Linux and Mac OS X Killing Windows Bit by Bit Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux YouTubers to get ad money share How to Share Large File on The Web Using MegaUploadOne of the most advantage of using MegaUpload, compare with other similar service, is the duration how long your file(s) will be kept in their server. Your uploaded files will be deleted only after it become unused for 30 days. So, if many of your friends download it, over and over again, the files will always be there. The size is quite big, up to 250MB. Not as big as YouSendIt which allow up to 1GB file size, but it's more than enough to share your music files, movies, etc.
common - comments - 7.3.2006
Casual game developers will soon be able to share in some of the revenue from MSN Games thanks to a new system developed by Microsoft. The new option is available immediately, and could mean as much as $250,000 in shared revenue for the five most popular titles. Microsoft to Share Game Ad Revenue
microsoft - comments - 12.2.2007
In the October 2007 survey we received responses from 142,805,398 sites, an increase of 7.6 million sites since last month. Apache looses share to IIS again, never been so close
common - comments - 12.10.2007
Microsofts 2008 conference dance card is starting to fill in. Its looking like a very busy February and March for the conference-going set. And, as usual with Microsoft, mid-summer will be full of Microsoft industry and insider events. What will Microsoft share about Windows futures in 2008?
windows - comments - 17.11.2007
Yahoo and Google, the world's two biggest search engines, have announced a two-week experiment that will see them share advertising space. Google and Yahoo to share web ads
common - comments - 10.4.2008
Windows Complete PC Backup is an image based backup tool where you could take a backup of your entire system and restore it later. Windows 7 to allow PC backups to Network Share
windows - comments - 9.11.2008
The number one provider of real-time web analytics, today reported that Mozilla's browsers have a total global usage share of 11,51 percent. The total usage share of Mozilla increased 2.82 percent since April 2005. Microsoft's Internet Explorer still dominates the global browser market with a global usage share of 85,45 percent which is 1.18 percent less as at the end of April. Mozilla's browsers global usage share is still growing
common - comments -
Displaybank have brought out an interesting report on the projected market share that LCD monitors will have this year. "LCD monitors are expected to account for more than 80%", stated CEO Peter Kwon. They also expect LCD Monitor shipments to hit 125 million, 20 million more than 2005. If true this will equal a impressive 80.4% share. LCD Monitors to Take 80 percent Share in 2006
common - comments - 16.1.2006
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. may have a chance to take market share from the iPod as a Reuters survey showed 35 percent of those interested in its Zune device would be replacing an existing digital music player. Zune has chance to take iPod market share: survey
microsoft - comments - 30.11.2006
Yahoo has a strategic plan due in 100 days and lags Google in most metrics. Yet despite Yahoos issues it still has the No. 2 market share in search. But if Yahoo wants to change its standing it should work on its interface a bit more. Life without Google: Can Yahoo regain search share?
common - comments - 28.7.2007Market Share 2007: Mac OS gains 3.15%, Vista grabs 10.48%
Throughout 2007, according to reports by Net Applications, Mac OS increased its market share by 3.15% while Vista managed to grab 10.48% market share.
Windows XP lost 8.39% of the OS market share in the same time period, quite unsurprising considering Vista is its successor, while Linux increased by
0.26%. Nothing too mind-boggling, but definitely interesting, to say the least. At the end of December 2007, the (incomplete) standings are as
follows:
Windows XP - 76.91%
Windows Vista - 10.48%
Mac OS - 7.30%
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neowin.net - 09.01.2008Vista, Mac OS X gain users; Firefox loses market share
As Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
Vista and Apple Inc.'s Mac OS
X continued to grow their
share of the operating system
market last month, Mozilla
Corp.'s Firefox suffered its
biggest-ever drop in usage, a
Web metrics company reported.
By the end of May,
Vista accounted for 3.74% of
all operating systems on
machines connecting to Net
Applications Inc.'s clients'
Web sites. The total share for
Mac OS X -- which included
older editions running on
PowerPC processors as well as
version 10.4, or "Tiger," on
Intel-powered Macs -- was
6.46%. Vista was up about
three-quarters of a percentage
point from April, while Mac OS
X was up a quarter of a point.
Their gains came
largely at the expense of
earlier versions of Windows,
such as Windows XP and Windows
2000, although Net
Applications' "Other"
category, which is essentially
Linux, also faded slightly. ..
winbeta.org - 19.06.2007Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
Windows Vista has probably
created the single biggest
opportunity for the Linux
desktop to take market share,
Cole Crawford, an IT
strategist at Dell, said in an
address titled, "The Linux
DesktopFact, FUD or Fantasy?"
at the annual LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo.
For example, a number
of companies have moved back
to Windows XP after deploying
Vista, Crawford said, before
quoting Scott Granneman, an
author, entrepreneur and
adjunct professor at
Washington University in St.
Louis, as saying, "To mess up
a Linux box, you need to work
at it; to mess up your Windows
box, you just have to work on
it."
Microsoft has also owned
the desktop for more than 15
years, Crawford said, "and so
the only way for them to go is
down. But Linux can only go
up, and its growth potential
is enormous. While Linux only
has 1 percent of share on the
desktop versus Microsoft's
more than 90 percent, that is
changing, and the Linux
desktop is expected to gain
some share over the next two
years," he said.
winbeta.org - 09.08.2007Vista use grows as Mac OS X stays flat
Windows Vista's share of
online users has increased
every month this year, while
rival Mac OS X -- to which
Vista has often been compared
-- has shown little, if any,
growth, a metrics company
reports.
According to
Net
Applications, in June
Windows Vista accounted for
4.52% of all systems that
browsed the Web, up from
January's 0.18%. Vista grew
its usage share each month
since its release to consumers
Jan. 30, hitting 0.93% in
February, 2.04% in March,
3.02% in April and 3.74% in
May. Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X,
meanwhile, accounted for 6.22%
in January, hit its high point
of 6.46% in May, but slipped
back to 6% in June.
If Vista's uptake trend
continues, it should pass Mac
OS X in Web usage share by the
end of August. ..
winbeta.org - 23.07.2007XP or Vista - Which is more at risk from Windows 7?
Its been around 30 months since Windows Vista hit the General Availability milestone, and in that time the OS has only managed to claw some 18% of the
OS market share. Compare that weak market share to the aging Windows XP, which even today commands an impressive 73% market share. With Windows 7 now
only a few weeks away from the General Availability milestone, its interesting to wonder what effect 7 will have on XP and Vista market share.
winbeta.org - 11.08.2009Mac OS, Linux May Share a Windows Flaw
Microsoft Corporation recently announced plans to release a patch to reduce the risk of a new kind of Web-based security vulnerability, but security
researchers say that other operating systems are probably at risk too. Nathan McFeters, a security researcher with Ernst & Young Global Limited, is
one of the researchers who has been studying the problem most closely. He hopes to present more details on how Linux and Mac OS X may also be
susceptible to what are known as Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) protocol handler flaws at the Toorcon hacking conference, being held next week in
San Diego. Although McFeters admitted he had not yet found a way to run unauthorized code on Unix-based operating systems, he and his fellow
researchers have discovered a number of issues that looked like they could be grounds for further research.
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neowin.net - 13.10.2007Oracle adds systems management perq to Linux OS support
As a new perquisite for customers of its Linux OS or database support, Oracle today announced free downloads and support for Oracle Clusterware, a
systems management package for both Red Hat Linux and Oracle's "Unbreakable Linux."..
betanews.com - 26.03.2008OpenSUSE 11.1 Linux OS leaves beta
The newest edition of the Novell-sponsored OpenSUSE Project's Linux OS, contains a number of new enhancements built both internally and through the
open source community...
betanews.com - 19.12.2008Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Sarah Sharp, a self-styled "geekess" and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB
subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel This makes Linux the first operating system to
support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now.
According to Ankika Kehrer, "
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neowin.net - 11.06.2009Good OS launches new cloud-oriented Linux 'Rocket'
The makers of the Good OS distribution are unveiling a Linux version with a hopefully appealing metaphor, with a focus on cloud computing...
betanews.com - 08.01.2008Vista Continues to Gain Acceptance
In spite of the heavy and widespread criticism, Microsofts latest operating system, Windows Vista, managed to once again increase its popularity in
August, leaving behind not only outdated Windows 2000, but also outstripping Apples Mac OS.
In August the share of Windows
Vista-based computers used to browse the Internet was 6.26%, up considerably from June and July, according to data collected by Net Applications, a provider of Web tools. The shares of Windows
2000 and Windows XP operating systems decreased slightly to 3.66% and 80.48%, respectively, which is quite natural as old computers are replaced with
new ones and a lot of systems nowadays come with Windows Vista operating system.
It is interesting to note that currently the
share of Windows Vista-based personal computers is even higher than that of Mac OS-based systems, which are used by 6.15% of users. Still, Apple is
also gaining popularity slowly but surely, something which cannot be said about other operating systems, namely outdated Windows versions, Linux
OSes and so on, which have been losing market share for many months now and are used in 3.44% of systems that are used for Internet browsing.
In late July Microsoft said it had managed to sell 60 millionth copy of Windows Vista operating system (OS) late in June and that the
install base of Vista eclipsed the whole install base of Apple computers in the first five weeks of sales.
winbeta.org - 10.09.2007Windows, IE lose web share to Mac OS X, Linux, Safari, Firefox, iPhone
The trouble with having a huge market share is that the only way to move is down - and that's exactly what's happening to Windows and Internet
Explorer, according to an new report. The question is how much further are they going to fall?
According to the latest Market Share report from Net Applications, Windows' share has dropped from 93.28 to
91.13 percent over the last 12 months. What's taking up the slack? Mostly Mac OS, with a little help from the iPhone. The Mac share has risen from
5.99 to 7.83 percent, and the iPhone's from 0.04 to 0.16 percent - but more of that later.
winbeta.org - 02.06.2008Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report
Jeff Jones, the Microsoft
employee who published his
controversial "Windows Vista
- 90 Day Vulnerability
Report", is now back with a
180 days (6 month) version. In
the full 14-page report he
discusses the vulnerabilities
in each OS, fixed and unfixed,
and makes sure to emphasize
the reduced Linux builds that
exclude non-default and
optional components without
equivalents on Windows.
" If you share the opinion
that Windows and applications
ported to Windows get a higher
level of researcher scrutiny
than other OSes, then the
6-month results are even more
positive. If you don't share
that opinion, then they still
stand on their own ... "
writes Jones.
R
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neowin.net - 24.06.2007Torvalds pans Apple with 'utter crap' putdown
Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project,
Linus Torvalds.
Torvalds was in Melbourne last week for the linux.conf.au conference and was invited to pass judgement on OS X
versus Windows Vista in a wide-ranging interview.
"I don't think they're equally flawed - I think Leopard is a much better
system," he said. "(But) OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is
scary."
winbeta.org - 06.02.2008Linux is more of a threat than Apple, says Ballmer
The world of technology is like a war these days, with every company competing to step above the rest and keep afloat in the current economic crisis.
Microsoft is no exception, and CEO Steve Ballmer has named a different foe than the usual Apple: Linux. OS News reports that Ballmer delivered the
statement whilst holding a speech for investors. During the show, he provided the following slide: "Linux, you could see on the slide, and Apple
has certainly increased its share somewhat," Ballmer had said, and he also went on to inform investors about Microsoft's biggest competitor:
Windows.
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neowin.net - 26.02.2009Vista/7 more secure than Linux and Mac OS X
Operating system security is always a hotly contended subject, and last week Microsoft amped up the hype by claiming that Windows Vista and the
soon-to-be-released 7 is the world’s most secure OS, beating both Linux and Mac OS X.
Here’s what Microsoft’s
chief operating officer Kevin Turner had to
say at the MidMarket CIO Summit last week...
winbeta.org - 13.04.2009Windows 7 surpasses Snow Leopard in under two weeks
In only two weeks since the official commercial launch of Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7 has managed to surpass Apple's Snow
Leopard market share. Snow Leopard has been on the market for three months while Windows 7 has only been on the market for two weeks. Microsoft
still stands dominant in the market share, holding strong at 92.52% of all computers in October, compared to Mac OS X with 5.27%, Linux with 0.96% and
1.25% with other operating systems. Windows 7 managed to surpass Snow Leopard's market share (1.17%); Windows 7 managed to grab 2.15% of the
market share, where Vista shows 18.83% and Windows XP with 70.48%.
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neowin.net - 06.11.2009Microsoft integrates Windows
Live into Vista
Microsoft-Watch reports that
newer Windows Vista builds,
5506 and up, include
references to Windows Live
software by default in various
locations throughout the OS.
It is unknown yet if the
concerned products are
installed with Vista or if it
only contains download links
to it.
The
Welcome Center in Vista is the
place where most references
are found. In build 5506, it
contains icons for Windows
Live Messenger, Windows Live
OneCare, Windows Live Toolbar
and Windows Live Desktop Mail.
Additionnally, the Start Menu
apparently contains a Windows
Live Messenger icon.
Though this is only
speculation, this may mean
that Microsoft is finally
removing Windows Messenger
from its Windows products,
using instead Windows Live
Messenger.
jcxp.net - 17.08.20062009: Linux and the desktop
Choosing a desktop platform usually involves the choice between Windows or Macintosh. There are a few factors which people consider when they are
choosing a desktop platform. In no particular order, people want application compatibility, stability, security, performance, and ease of use. When
we look at desktop market share, we can see the following (as of statistics reported in October of 2008): Windows boasts the lead with 91% market
share, down 5% from March of 2003. Mac holds 6% market share, an increase of 4% from March, 2003. Finally, Linux has doubled its market share since
2003 with a current 4%.
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neowin.net - 02.01.2009Linspire Offers $50 Linux OS for Free
In response to confusion surrounding a free variant of the company's desktop Linux operating system, Linspire is giving away digital copies of its OS until September 6. The move is in response to the emergence of Freespire, which used the source code from Linspire but removed licensed third party and copyrighted content...
betanews.com - 02.09.2005