Market Share Smackdown: Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS Start the Market Share Ballet Windows market share drops to 15-year low Zune has chance to take iPod market share: survey Six reasons Microsoft will continue to lose market share Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share Can Dell change the Linux market? Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux Windows XP going off market in June: What it means Windows Embedded grew more than 200% in 2006 retail market What will Microsoft share about Windows futures in 2008? Windows 7 to allow PC backups to Network Share Google to launch Android Market Netbook Sales Lift Windows XP Home Share Ballmer: Enterprise Tools Market Ours For the Taking Intel to take 'Averill' to market as Centrino-like platform The anti-spyware market that never existed is officially dead Bing grabs 10 percent of search market YouTubers to get ad money share Live.com to get social - share your own pages Microsoft Eyes 40 Percent of Smartphone Market by 2012 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
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
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density. Samsung Announced World’s First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
common - comments - 19.6.2009
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
Yahoo has a strategic plan due in 100 days and lags Google in most metrics. Yet despite Yahoo’s 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 - 28.7.2007
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at the D5 conference Wednesday night for a rare joint appearance. Gates and Jobs share stage, friendly banter at D5
common - comments - 31.5.20072009: 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 - 02.01.2009Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server
Linux growth in the U.S. x86 server market has, over the past six quarters, started to falter and reverse its positive course relative to Windows
Server and the market as a whole.
The annual rate at which Linux is growing in the x86 server space has fallen from around 53
percent in 2003, when Windows Server growth was in the mid-20 percent range, to a negative 4 percent growth in calendar year 2006, IDC Quarterly
Server Tracker figures show.
Over the same time period, Windows has continued to report positive annual growth, outpacing the
total growth rate in the x86 market by more than 4 percent in 2006, indicating that Linux has actually lost market share to Windows Server over this
time.
winbeta.org - 26.10.2007Windows 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 - 06.11.2009Windows is Caught Between Mac and Linux
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: On the high end, people are buying Macs instead of Windows PCs. On the low end, Linux is eating Windows alive.
For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a percentage of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the
Mac, but, while no one does a good job of tracking the still-new, pre-installed Linux desktop market, it's also clear that Linux is finally making
impressive inroads into Windows' once unchallenged market share.
winbeta.org - 22.03.2008Market 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 - 09.01.2008Linux x86 growth outpaced by Microsoft Windows
A recent IDC report showed
Linux servers continuing to
increase market share for x86
architecture with a second
consecutive quarter of
double-digit growth, but the
bigger news could be
Microsoft's even bigger surge
with Server 2003.
The
Redmond, Wash.-based software
giant's Server 2003 showed
modest gains in Q1, with IDC
reporting that Microsoft
Windows Server revenue was
$4.8 billion in Q1. This
number represents 10.4%
year-over-year growth and a
gain of 1.9 points of revenue
market share over the same
period in 2006. Windows
encompassed 38.8% of all
server revenue in Q1 of 2007.
However, the most
noteworthy accomplishment for
Microsoft was that --
according to IDC -- this was
the first quarter since that
firm started tracking Linux
server spending in 1998 that
Windows Server revenue grew
faster than Linux server
revenue. IDC noted Linux
server revenue reached $1.6
billion, which represented
growth of 10%. ..
winbeta.org - 11.06.2007Vista 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 - 09.08.2007Microsoft Holding Its Ground
on Office for Linux
Some prominent figures
in the Linux community believe
that as enterprises increase
their use of Linux on the
desktop, Microsoft Corp. will
be forced to consider offering
a version of Office for
Linux???or at least make its
software more interoperable
with open-source desktop
productivity
suites.
"
When the [Linux desktop]
market share gets to a certain
point, Microsoft will, just as
it did with Apple [Computer
Inc.] in the past, make Office
available on Linux," Open
Source Development Labs Inc.
CEO Stuart Cohen told eWEEK in
a recent interview.
"I'm sure they
have done the work and that
they know what the market
numbers need to be for that to
be financially viable for
them. I really think that when
enough of their enterprise
customers' office workers,
help centers, IT and
engineering departments are
running Linux on the desktop
and interoperability really
becomes an issue, they will go
and listen to their
customers," he said,
acknowledging that he has no
evidence of any willingness on
Microsoft's part to allow
Office to run on top of Linux...
winbeta.org - 06.09.2005Linux Community Questions x86 Server Numbers
The Linux community is questioning research that suggests the open-source operating system is losing market share to Windows on preinstalled x86
servers, saying that Linux is undercounted in those kinds of studies.
An analysis of IDC Quarterly Server Tracker figures for the
past six quarters showed that Linux growth started to falter and reverse its positive course relative to both Windows Server and the market as a whole
over that period.
The annual rate at which Linux was growing in the x86 server space fell to a negative 4 percent growth in
calendar year 2006, while Windows Server outpaced the total growth rate in that market by more than 4 percent in 2006, the figures showed.
winbeta.org - 31.10.2007Windows, 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 - 02.06.2008Microsoft Still Cleaning Up With Windows
Whether from Linux open-source technology or virtualization, many have predicted the demise of Microsoft's traditional software business. So far the
company that built its house on Windows isn't caving in to soothsayers.
The latest figures from consulting firms indicate that
although Linux sales are growing by number of servers shipped with the operating system, the software is losing ground to Microsoft's Windows.
Microsoft picked up 2 percentage points, bringing its market share to 67.1% of servers shipped during the second quarter, according
to data from Gartner. Of 2.06 million servers shipped overall, nearly 1.4 million came preloaded with proprietary OS. That works out to an extra
77,650 Microsoft-based servers sold during the quarter, year over year.
Linux accounted for 22.8% of server shipments, down from
23.1% the year before. In spite of the lost ground in market share, strong sales of servers created a bigger pie for the slight growth of commercial
Linux.
winbeta.org - 28.08.2007XP 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 - 11.08.2009Microsoft discounting heavily to keep market share
As reported on the MoneyforJam
blog, Microsoft is heavily discounting Windows to keep market share in the face of cheaper Linux offerings. Reuters notes: