[BPN] the most used operating system in the world is..

[HawkMan]

Windows Vista only just has more market share than Mac OSX? Damn that's gotta hurt :(

Now divide up OSX by versions like windows is... A single windows version and the one with least market share still has twice as much market as ALL of OSX :)

[ylcard]

lol @ linux XD

[HawkMan]

There are millions upon millions of people who use Linux everyday. They just don't know it - in fact you'd be surprised how many televisions and digital tv boxes for example run Linux and you'll never know it.

But people always quote the "Windows runs on desktops.."

On that same token, the same goes for windows ce. Or rather embedded now

[Original Poster]

can some one help im colour blind :( whats the stats in order of top to bottom used? :(

[kizuran]

(Other) Has more than linux? lolowned.

I can't imagine how it's possible that the various flavors of BSD, and other select UNIX-like/derivative OSs, have more share than the entirety of GNU/Linux type OSs (a sizeable OS ecosystem in its own right). It just doesn't sound right when I say it in my head... :huh:

Edited October 1, 2011 by kizuran

[Max Norris]

can some one help im colour blind :( whats the stats in order of top to bottom used? :(

7 and then XP by a very large margin, then Vista, OSX, Misc, Linux

[ThePitt]

XP?

[kizuran]

can some one help im colour blind :( whats the stats in order of top to bottom used? :(

It's XP @ the top (the one in freefalling decline)

Win7 with strong, steady growth

Vista with gradual decline

Mac OS with vveerryy ssllooww growth

Other (dotted line), also with Mac OS-like growth

Linux @ the very bottom, with creeping losses

[gkl]

Excellent news. About time that old thing started actively dieing out. I'm also glad that the market share of Mac OS is increasing as well; the less extreme dominance of one company the better for the consumers.

[Original Poster]

vista should of died long ago and also linux gets used way more then tht surly or is this home use only? cause most requital businesses use linu (bsd, centos ect) for their networks and ech network having 1-64 linuxs running

[_neutrino Veteran]

now if only I could get the most used OS where I work not to be windows 2000 then I would feel better.

[Matrix XII]

I'm surprised by how high Vista still is

[Dwarden]

Next year will be the year of the linux desktop!

i hear this for last 2 decades ....

sorry but seeing W8 i don't think Linux has chance (in terms win the majority war) in forseeable future

there is still nothing 'complete' for game developers like MS DirectX and whole 'streamlined' suites around ...

[Manish]

Therefore we can possibly conclude that Vista is better than Mac's.

You could do that, but of course that would be stupid. It'd be like concluding that Windows XP was better than 7 up until somewhere in September 2011. (I use both OSes too. Not that working with either OS affects the ability to draw a logical conclusion from a graph.)

[Quillz]

lol @ Vista :laugh:

Despite Apple's aggressive marketing, seems even Vista has more users than Mac OS X.

Anyway, glad to see Win7 finally overtaking XP. It's about time.

[Boz]

To be perfectly honest.. I wouldn't mind using WIndows 7 for work and WIndow 8 for tablets and light devices with touch screens. That could actually work nicely. Windows 8 will have a tough fight doing the same thing with Windows 7.

[Brian Miller]

What about Mac OS X?

[Gerowen]

I don't think this chart is very accurate. I know for a fact that a huge number of corporate servers run Linux or some derivative. I know that at work most of our servers run Linux, and the ones that don't are virtual machines running on a Linux host OS. Many of our special needs client machines run a customized version of Redhat, and all of my home computers run Linux (And I don't dual boot). Given, all of the standard end-user PCs at work run Windows Vista/7, but I don't think the OSX/Linux representation on that chart is very accurate.

Check this out: http://news.netcraft...ugust-2011.html

9 out of the top 10 hosting sites of last month did not run a Windows OS on their server. Google disallowed Windows from their corporate desktop machines, I could go on and on. I could understand a lower number, I could understand a "really" low number like 5%, but barely above 0%? Come on now, there's something going on with these charts.

Edit: Even Neowin is hosted with Apache webserver on a Unix OS.

http://uptime.netcra...=www.neowin.net

[Miuku.]

I don't think this chart is very accurate. I know for a fact that a huge number of corporate servers run Linux or some derivative

It's because the chart is based on web client signatures that visit various web servers. Which of course is completely bogus but let's not bring facts into the table, that would confuse people.

[HawkMan]

I don't think this chart is very accurate. I know for a fact that a huge number of corporate servers run Linux or some derivative. I know that at work most of our servers run Linux, and the ones that don't are virtual machines running on a Linux host OS. Many of our special needs client machines run a customized version of Redhat, and all of my home computers run Linux (And I don't dual boot). Given, all of the standard end-user PCs at work run Windows Vista/7, but I don't think the OSX/Linux representation on that chart is very accurate.

Check this out: http://news.netcraft...ugust-2011.html

9 out of the top 10 hosting sites of last month did not run a Windows OS on their server. Google disallowed Windows from their corporate desktop machines, I could go on and on. I could understand a lower number, I could understand a "really" low number like 5%, but barely above 0%? Come on now, there's something going on with these charts.

Edit: Even Neowin is hosted with Apache webserver on a Unix OS.

http://uptime.netcra...=www.neowin.net

For every Linux web server or corporate server there millions of home computers running windows. Saying the char s wrong because a lot of servers run onus is ridiculous. Add in the fact that for corporate server windows is actually a lot more common than linux. And even on web hosts Linux doesn't reign supreme alone, it has something like 60-65% yes, but windows also has around 30%. As for you running Linux at home, yeah you and a handful of other people is what makesnup that less than one percent, which happens to also be a much larger number of computersnusing Linux than the total number of Linux servers.