The World's second most used OS

"Windows Vista is the second most used operating system in the world
following its predecessor Windows XP. Microsoft's latest version of
the Windows platform has surpassed by far rival products such as Linux
and Mac OS X Tiger. In mid May, at the Windows Hardware Engineering
Conference (WinHEC) 2007 in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
applauded the fact that in just the first 100 days of general
availability Windows Vista
managed to gather an installed base larger than that of Linux and Mac
OS X. And it looks like Vista is continuing to make the best out of
the fact that there is no competitor available at its level."

"Apple sacrificed Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to the iPhone at the end of
spring 2007. And while the Cupertino-based company crossed its fingers
and hoped that the trade-off was the right strategy, statistics
released by Market Share by Net Applications paint an entirely
different picture. Market Share by Net Applications data reveals that
MacIntel has lost market share and is down to 2.48% in June compared
with 2.51% in May. Mac OS has also dropped to 3.52% from 3.95% two
months ago. "

"The open source Linux operating system is stagnating. The various
distributions of Linux are credited with only 0.71% of the operating
system market in June 2007, up from 0.70% in May. One other platform
that has been continuously experiencing the erosion of its market
share is Windows XP. With Windows Vista available for five months
already, XP users are increasingly upgrading their operating systems.
Vista has a good momentum in the detriment of XP, which dropped from
82.02% in May to 81.94% in June. By comparison, Vista continues to
increase its installed base and has jumped from 3.74% in May to 4.52%
of the operating system market in June. "

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-Vista-Windows-XP-Linux-Mac-OS-X-Market-Share-Deathmatch-58965.shtml

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