3346 NetApplications HitsLink have posted Operating System Market Share stats for March, 2009, showing the Mac OS gaining market share again after a hiccup in February. Windows dropped below 90% in November, '08 and has stayed there, losing about a third of a point over the month of March, while Linux's share gained very slightly, and remains below one percent while the iPhone version of OS X was up a tenth of a point.

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

Windows 88.14% (88.42%)
Mac 9.77% (9.61%)
Linux 0.90% (0.88%)
iPhone 0.49% (0.48%)

Comparing longer term, at 88.14% Windows is down more than five percentage points since May 2006 (95.09%), while the Mac OS at 9.77% 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 0.90%..

In terms of versions:

Windows:
Windows XP 62.85% (63.67%)
Windows Vista 23.42% (22.79%)
Windows 2000 1.24% (1.33% )
Windows NT 0.12% (0.10%)
Windows 98 0.19% (0.21%)
Windows ME 0.12% (0.13%)
Windows CE 0.05% (0.05%)

Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 6.00% (5.64%)
Mac OS X 10.4 2.66% (2.75%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.86% (0.95%)
iPhone 0.49% (0.48%
iPod (0.11% ) (Not reported last month)
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.25% (0.27%)

Linux 0.90% (0.88%)

To read more, click here:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8
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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, and squeaked out a tiny gain again in February, while Safari dropped nearly a third of a point in February, and Internet Explorer continues to slowly fade, down .04 percent from January and down 7.96 percent from a year ago. Google's newcomer (and so far Windows-only) Chrome continues to nail down more than 1 percent of the browser market. Fifth-place Opera has remained static at within a tenth of a point of 0.7o percent for the past three months, and discontinued Netscape interestingly gained three tenths of a point over the month of March.

Browser Total Market Share:

Microsoft Internet Explorer - 66.82% (67.51% )

Firefox - 22.05% (21.73%)

Safari 8.23% (8.00%)

Chrome - 1.23% (1.15%)

Opera - 0.70% (0.71%)

Netscape - 0.69% (0.66%)

Mozilla - 0.10% (0.07%)

Opera Mini - 0.07% (0.07%)

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

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