Desktop Stats: Linux Behind, But Moving Forward | Linux Today

Desktop Stats: Linux Behind, But Moving Forward

Written By
JM
James Maguire
Oct 16, 2007

“Regardless of its modest market share in absolute terms, the
fact that Linux more than doubled suggests it is growing at a
collision course with the other OSes. If it were to maintain its
current growth rate, it would be the dominant OS by the year
2014.”

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