Thursday, September 24, 2009

WINXP - Interesting Factoid

While Usenet cruising I ran into an interesting post.

The poster runs a WEB site for children to get help with math and has 4000+ hits/day.

He uses Google Analytics and came up with the following Market-Share figures:

OS
LAST_YEAR
THIS_YEAR
CHANGE
Windows
93.00%
86.37%
-7.5%
Mac
5.97%
10.43%
+74%
Linux
0.59%
1.82%
+208%

The only question I have is the figures for Linux, especially last years. HOW did Google Analytics measure market share for something that is free? Windows and Mac OS are sold, therefore easy to get market share figures.

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