Researchers: Vista operating system slower than XP/Byte by Bite
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| The Linux foundation says its annual survey of Linux use shows that "in those
| businesses and organizations that have deployed Linux desktops, just under 40
| percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines and, in most of
| these places, Linux is more common on desktops than servers — apparently
| contradicting the common belief that Linux is, and will continue to be,
| mainly a server OS."
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http://www.uniondemocrat.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=25122
The Perfect Mozilla Firefox Blog
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| Well, after looking at the statistics of my blog, I felt it was necessary to
| write this post because I noticed about 88.3% of the visitors of this blog
| use Mozilla Firefox- WOW, whilst only 7.2% of the visitors use IE.
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http://www.kabatology.com/12/01/the-perfect-mozilla-firefox-blog/
Related:
Desktop Linux on the Rise, Linux Foundation Reports
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| For starters, almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year's survey
| compared with fewer than 10,000 in 2006's survey.
|
| [...]
|
| In those businesses and organizations that have deployed Linux desktops, 39.5
| percent are running Linux on more than half of their machines.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2220549,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
50,000,000 Desktop GNU/Linux Users Already?Desktop OS- Vista vs. Linux
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| Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. Novell claimed several months
| back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for upwards of
| 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent statements made by
| some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are upwards of
| 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. Microsoft has never contested the number of
| Desktop Linux users, and if anything the deal Microsoft signed with Novell
| was tacit agreement that Microsoft believed those numbers to be accurate.
|
| [...]
|
| Now, Microsoft reported back in July that 60 million copies of Vista had been
| sold. Now start subtracting the crossgrades to Xp that are not counted as
| sales, and the 3-1 to ratio of Xp to Vista sales. Now, I'm not confident in
| my mathematics, but right now the best I can come up with is a realistic
| install base of around 40 million.
|
| Yes. Desktop Linux Marketshare... is larger than Vista.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html
Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey
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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their
| Linux distribution of choice.
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html
Survey: Desktop Linux use grows
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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux,
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users
| in the past year.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html
Mozilla & Firefox Market Share
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| This is a super-long post, so I’ll start with the punchlines:
|
| * We think there are at least 125,000,000 Firefox users in the world
| right now, give or take. That represents a doubling since Firefox 2 was
| released a little over a year ago, and significant growth in every
| country.
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http://john.jubjubs.net/2007/11/27/mozilla-firefox-market-share/
How about all these Windows/IE zombies rallying the Web (see below)?
Related:
In zombies we trust
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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661
Over 50% of corporate desktops infected with malware: IronPort
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| The report also reveals that more than 50% of corporate desktops
| worldwide are infected with some type of spyware with the rate of
| infection as high as 70% in the United States. Trojans or malicious
| system monitors represented over 7% of the infections. Rootkits and
| trick loaders, which reinstall spyware and other obfuscation techniques,
| make remediation very difficult thus prevention is the key to stopping
| these threats.
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http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/66870.html
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
Firefox takes 28% market share in Europe
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| All European countries saw an increase in Firefox participation with Hungary
| showing the most dramatic increase from 27.2%, in the latest March 2007
| survey, to 39.7%. Overall, Europe grew from 24.1% to 27.8%.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/07/firefox-takes-28-market-share-in-europe/
Firefox passes 400 million downloads
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| Firefox just passed the 400 million download mark, according to the Spread
| Firefox site for promoting the open-source, extendable Web browser.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9773836-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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