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____/ bbgruff on Monday 06 July 2009 16:56 : \____
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> I must be having a senior moment, because I just don't understand this.
>
> http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-FR-daily-20080701-20090706
>
> This shows the graph of OS usage in France.
>
> Clearly, there is something *wrong*, because there has been an enormous leap
> in Linux use for the past few days - up to almost 20%, in fact!
>
> Obviously(?) somebody has "cooked the books" - presumably by hitting
> the "tartget sites" with a linux+FF combination?
>
> What puzzles *me* though is how did they thereby manage to bring down only
> *XP* figures, and not those of Vista and OSX?
> If it were simple a case of trying to "swamp" the websites, I'd have though
> that all other OSs would show a dip, but it's just XP?
>
> Perhaps it's some sort of XP virus?
>
> Interesting, isn't it?
> Ideas?
You'd have to check usage in more places (which they don't). Apple is bigger
than Linux in wealthy countries, but Linux is about an order of magnitude
larger than Apple in less developed countries, of which there are many more.
Watch the antitrust exhibits where Microsoft's internal documents show this.
Ballmer's latest slide shows that on the desktop Linux has more market share
than Apple.
BTW, Net Applications is managed by Hopkins et al. He's from Microsoft
(acquired by it, AFAIK), some say an investor in it (or was), and Microsoft is
a paying client of Net Applications. That's how Net Applications makes income.
There are lies, damn lies...
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