4189 NetApplications HitsLink have posted Operating System Market Share stats for February, 2009, showing the Mac OS lost roughly a third of a point on the month. Windows dropped below 90% in November, '08 and has stayed there, gaining roughly a quarter-point over the month of February, while Linux's also share gained very slightly, and remains below one percent while the iPhone version of OS X was static.

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

Windows 88.42% (88.26%)
Mac 9.61% (9.93%)
Linux 0.88% (0.83%)
iPhone 0.48% (0.44%)

Comparing longer term, at 88.42% Windows is down more than five percentage points since May 2006 (95.09%), while the Mac OS at 9.61% 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 0.88%..

In terms of versions:

Windows:
Windows XP 63.67% (63.76%)
Windows Vista 22.79% (22.48%)
Windows 2000 1.33% ()1.37% )
Windows NT 0.10% (0.09%)
Windows 98 0.21% (0.23%)
Windows ME 0.13% ( 0.14%)
Windows CE 0.05% (0.05%)

Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 5.64% (5.28%)
Mac OS X 10.4 2.75% (2.74%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.95% (1.00%)
iPhone 0.48% (0.48%)
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.27% (0.29%)

Linux 0.88% (0.83%)

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, and squeaked out a tiny gian 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.

Browser Total Market Share:

Microsoft Internet Explorer - 67.51% (67.55% )

Firefox - 21.73% (21.53%)

Safari 8.00% (8.29%)

Chrome - 1.15% (1.12%)

Opera - 0.71% (0.70%)

Netscape - 0.66% (0.57%)

Mozilla - 0.07% (0.07%)

Opera Mini - 0.07% (0.06%)

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

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Mobiles

Finally, in the Mobile Browsing by Platform Market Share category, although the iPhone has a commanding lead in, Android and BlackBerry are rapidly gaining market share. However Hitslink notes that this does not mean iPhone web browsing is shrinking, because the overall market is growing rapidly.

Mobile Browsing by Platform

iPhone 66.61%
Java ME 9.06%
Windows Mobile 6.91%
Symbian 6.15%
Android 6.15%
Palm 2.37%
BlackBerry 2.24%


Charles W. Moore

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