:October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux
October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux Nov 6, 2009, 20 :32 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (2709 reads) (Other stories by Emil Protalinski)
"Between October and September, Windows dropped 0.25 percentage points (from 92.77 percent to 92.52 percent), Mac OS climbed up a sizeable 0.15 percentage points (from 5.12 percent to 5.27 percent), and Linux edged forward 0.01 percentage points (from 0.95 percent to 0.96 percent). Windows' drop is worth noting given that it occurred in the month that Windows 7 was released, but November may show something different given that it will be a full month of sales of the operating system. Still, Windows 7 did quite well; it managed to pass Linux, Snow Leopard, and even both of their shares combined (2.13 percent versus Windows 7's 2.15 percent):"
