Comments on: Windows 7 Has Bigger Market Share Than All Linux Flavors Combined

By: Michael - Admin

Michael - Admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:03:48 +0000

Dale,

Thanks for your comments!

The article above doesn’t make a distinction between servers and desktops. Apache/Linux are installed on over 90% of web servers worldwide (look on wikipedia for the actual stats, it’s amazing).
When it comes to desktops, however, the world clearly hasn’t seen favor in Linux. Windows, for whatever reasons, and factors, still remains the desktop OS of choice.
I myself am a Linux OS enthusiast and hard-core user. See the reviews on this site and you’ll see my appreciation and devotion to Linux. Yet again, whenever I need to interface with the corporate world, some “gotcha” usually requires me to pull out my Windows laptop.

By: Dale Kaup

Dale Kaup — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:05:10 +0000

You are really not seeing the whole picture with your 2% comment. If you look at all the servers running Linux you know it is far more than 2%, in fact it probably easily exceeds 50%. In fact the Internet as we know it would not exist without Linux and especially Unix and BSD. It was from BSD that the software that enables Windows to network was derived.

Also in order for some sites to cooperate with the users installed browser it was common practice to report you OS as Windows even when running Linux..so I have to ask how they arrived at the 2% figure. I for one have installed and run 7 and always come back to Ubuntu.

By: Curp

Curp — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:33:23 +0000

Windows 7 software too expensive to update, windows is worthless it wasnt thought of by me no matter what microsoft come out with hate it