170 NetApplications HitsLink have posted Operating System Market Share stats for July, 2008, showing the Mac OS's market share advancing again, after dropping to 7.76 percent in July from its recent peak of 7.94 percent of the OS market in June, but the big news is a major surge in the iPhone's web browsing usage share which increased 58% from July to August, and is now and about one third the OS usage share Linux enjoys.

Here's the Operating System Total Market Share rundown of the significant players for August (July figures in parentheses):

Windows 90.66% (91.02%)
Mac 7.86% (7.76%)
Linux 0.93% (0.82%)
iPhone 0.30% (0.19%)

Comparing longer term, at 90.66% Windows is still down nearly five percentage points since May 2006 (95.09%), while the Mac OS at 7.86% has not quite doubled its share over the same interval from 4.43% in May '06, and Linux has more than doubled its from 0.40% to 0.93% percent - up 11-tenths of a point from July.

In terms of versions:

Windows:
Windows XP 69.49% (70.64%)
Windows Vista 17.85% (16.93%)
Windows 2000 2.02%
Windows NT 0.71%
Windows 98 0.41%
Windows ME 0.24%
Windows CE 0.06%

5.44%; Mac OS 2.42%

Macintosh:
MacIntel 5.44% (5.23%)
Mac OS (Classic) 2.42% (2.52%)
iPhone 0.30% (0.19%)
iPod 0.05% (0.04%)

Linux 0.93% (0.82%)

To read more, click here:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8
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http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10 0

Hitslink also posted August, 2008 Browser Market Share stats yesterday, showing Internet Explorer dropping back slightly, with nearly a point drop from July, Firefox modestly up again to 19.73 percent from 19.22 percent, and Safari gaining back lost ground last month to 6.37 percent from 6.14 percent. Even Netscape, which was discontinued half a year ago, gained a bit of ground on Explorer, while Opera finally squeezed ahead to Netscape to become the number four browser.

Browser Total Market Share:

Microsoft Internet Explorer - 72.15% (73.02%)

Firefox - 19.73% (19.22%)

Safari - 6.37% ( 6.14% )

Opera - 0.74% (0.69%)

Netscape - 0.72% (0.69%)

Mozilla - 0.10% (0.08%)

Opera Mini - 0.05% (0.05%)

You can check it out at:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=9
and
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0


Charles W. Moore

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