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PSA: This "news" comes courtesy of a company called Net Applications, which I've never heard of before. Looks like they're a web analytics firm. So take this wi
by eridius 10y ago
PSA: This "news" comes courtesy of a company called Net Applications, which I've never heard of before. Looks like they're a web analytics firm. So take this with a huge grain of salt, because they can't actually see real user share, all they can see is the share of people who browse to their clients' sites.
- news_to_me 10y agoHmm yeah, for some reason I conflated them with NetApp, the storage company. Glad I double-checked – I haven't heard of Net Applications either.
- bitflipman 10y agoSo what would be the best way to estimate OS market share? Stopping short from including household OS usage in worldwide census?
- eridius 10y agoI'm not sure, but you could start by asking someone who's in a position to observe a much larger portion of internet usage. For example, I bet CloudFlare could collect some interesting statistics.
- CamelCaseName 10y agoWhile CloudFlare would be a much better source, I think it's not so bad to compare a large number of sites, with their previous selves.
- TheRealDunkirk 10y agoAnd it's being covered by ComputerWorld. Say no more. Thanks to "free" industry-supported publications like this -- designed to make non-technical management feel good about following the Microsoft/Cisco/Oracle status quo -- my efforts to integrate Linux into my company's operations in the 90's was very frustrating.
- tyingq 10y agoThe client list is fairly impressive: http://www.netapplications.com/about/?scrollTo=clients http://www.netapplications.com/about/?scrollTo=clients Not convinced, though, that the data used here is the real data from these client's main web properties.