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eridius | karma 15723 | avg karma 2.78 · 2017-01-10 18:31:40+00:00

PSA: This "news" comes courtesy of a company called Net Applications, which I've never heard of before. Looks like they're a web analytics firm. So take this with a huge grain of salt, because they can't actually see real user share, all they can see is the share of people who browse to their clients' sites.

news_to_me | karma 1340 | avg karma 3.32 · 2017-01-10 18:39:10

Hmm yeah, for some reason I conflated them with NetApp, the storage company. Glad I double-checked – I haven't heard of Net Applications either.

bitflipman | karma 2 | avg karma 2.0 · 2017-01-10 18:45:54+00:00

So what would be the best way to estimate OS market share? Stopping short from including household OS usage in worldwide census?

eridius | karma 15723 | avg karma 2.78 · 2017-01-10 19:29:33+00:00

I'm not sure, but you could start by asking someone who's in a position to observe a much larger portion of internet usage. For example, I bet CloudFlare could collect some interesting statistics.

CamelCaseName | karma 2897 | avg karma 3.52 · 2017-01-11 04:17:17+00:00

While CloudFlare would be a much better source, I think it's not so bad to compare a large number of sites, with their previous selves.

TheRealDunkirk | karma 5774 | avg karma 3.61 · 2017-01-10 19:18:50+00:00

And it's being covered by ComputerWorld. Say no more. Thanks to "free" industry-supported publications like this -- designed to make non-technical management feel good about following the Microsoft/Cisco/Oracle status quo -- my efforts to integrate Linux into my company's operations in the 90's was very frustrating.

tyingq | karma 59102 | avg karma 3.47 · 2017-01-10 20:14:44+00:00

The client list is fairly impressive: http://www.netapplications.com/about/?scrollTo=clients

Not convinced, though, that the data used here is the real data from these client's main web properties.

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