I dont see why last years would serve you as IDC is always innacurate even this year. One example is Microsoft windows they report as a 90% + Operating system, the highest it ever whent whas in the 1995 – 2000 period and it whas 81%, they have been loosing marketshare ever since to everyone ( Apple, BSD, GNU/Linux, OpenSolaris, Sun Desktop ) etc …. “Can you please provide links to this data”įor me IDC report are crap as they only account for the “sales” of product and they cut the market in category and play with the numbers.

What it means ? Everyone as statistics, Everyone as Marketshare reports, I trust only mine, Marketshare and Statistics are meaningless to the single user who whants its computer to work, they certainly dont care about GNU/Linux if its not availaible or installed on there PC when they come to use it. I take the lowest numbers Microsoft will agree on globally.

“I’m sure your numbers are very accurate.” No, some survey actually do the leg work of including data and go look for many source to accomplish a result and will tell a margin of errors, so I will disagree with you that all survey are as pathetic and inconclusive as this one, in its nature survey are not a 100% report as its impossible to poll absolutely everyone. No, because Linux is only a kernel, probably GNU/Linux, what can I say you missed IP setup step … You did not setup your firewall properly to be protected, etc … “Firefox on my debian box surely reports itself as Linux.” 95% of the problem with GNU/Linux come from amateurs who think they are pro’s who cant setup things properly. Mac touch screen monitor driver.“Tell me of one linux distribution that does that by default.”

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