4311 Mac OS X (including iPhone and iPod touch versions) in May captured just over 10 and a half percent (10.53) of the OS market for the fifth straight month, with a significant gain of about half a point over its performance in April.

NetApplications HitsLink have posted Operating System Market Share stats for May, 2009, showing the Mac OS growing again. Windows, which dropped below 90% in November, '08 and has stayed there, lost another fraction of a percentage point over the month of May, while Linux slipped marginally back below one percent share, while the iPhone version of OS X was up slightly. and rhe iPod touch held steady at 0.15%.

Here's the Operating System Total Market Share rundown of the significant players for May (April '09 figures in parentheses):

Windows 87.75% (87.90%)
Mac 9.81% (9.73%)
Linux 0.99% (1.02%)
iPhone 0.60% (0.55%)
iPod Touch 0.15% (0.15%)

Comparing longer term, at 87.75% Windows is down roughly seven percentage points since May 2006 (95.09%), while the Mac OS at 9.81% has more than doubled its share over the same interval from 4.43% in May '06, and Linux has also more then doubled its May '06 numbers from 0.40% to 0.99%.

In terms of versions:

Windows:
Windows XP 61.54% (62.21)
Windows Vista 24.35% (23.90)
Windows 2000 1.06% (1.15%)
Windows 7 0.42% (not tracked last month)
Windows NT 0.11% (0.11%)
Windows 98 0.16% (0.17%)
Windows ME 0.10% (0.11%)


Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 6.39% (6.17%)
Mac OS X 10.4 2.49% (2.55%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.72% (0.77%)
iPhone 0.60% (0.55%)
iPod 0.15% (0.15% )
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.21% (0.23%)

Linux 0.99%% (1.02%)

To read more, click here:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8
and
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10

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Browser Share

Turning browsers, the Firefox browser exceeded 20% share in November '08, gained more ground in December and January, squeaked out a tiny gain again in February, slipped in March, bounced back in April, and gained a smidge more in May while Safari, which also lost ground in April, surged ahead in May, and Internet Explorer continues to slowly fade. Google's newcomer (and so far Windows-only) Chrome now has 1.8 percent of the browser market. Opera has remained static at within a tenth of a point of 0.7 percent for the past five months.

Browser Total Market Share:

Microsoft Internet Explorer  - 65.50% (66.10%)

Firefox  - 22.51% (22.48%)

Safari  8.43% (8.21%)

Chrome - 1.60% (1.42%)

Netscape  - 0.74% (0.82%)

Opera -   0.72% (0.64%)

Mozilla  -  0.10% (0.10%)

Opera Mini  -   0.08% (0.07%)

You can check it out at:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0


Charles W. Moore

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