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> Microsoft’s share of the browser market had decreased to 68 percent in
> January, from about 80 percent two years ago, according to Net
> Applications, a research firm. Firefox had about 21.5 percent of the
> market, while Safari, made by Apple, 8.3 percent, and Google’s Chrome,
> 1 percent....
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/technology/companies/25google.html
Please don't reference the garbage from Net Applications? Safari at 8.3
percent? Give me a break. :-)
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/6671/2/
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| The question that isn't often asked though is: "Can you trust Net
| Applications' numbers?" According to Roy S. Schestowitz, editor of Boycott
| Novell, the answer is: "No." According to a recent Boycott Novell
| blog, "Microsoft and Apple put money on Net Applications' table, so rather
| unsurprisingly, the results satisfy both companies. GNU/Linux, on the other
| hand, is not able to pay Net Applications for favourable bias."
|
| And, in addition, to other points Schestowitz writes, "Net Applications
| admits its statistics are flawed (skewed)" and "Net Applications keeps its
| methods secret and the dataset likewise."
|
| Whether Net Applications is unduly influenced by Apple and Microsoft is
| outside the scope of this story. What can be said though is that Net
| Applications' desktop numbers certainly can't be taken as Gospel.
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| In my own research of the Web traffic history of computer, but not
| Linux-oriented, sites, with millions of hits per month, I found that Linux
| desktops averaged at 6.8%. That number is biased towards technically adept
| users, and not the general population. That said, I think it's a more
| accurate number for the computer-literate population than the Net Application
| numbers are for the general population.
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6.8%?
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Linux: mint and self-contained 'out of the box'
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine
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