3995 NetApplications HitsLink have posted Operating System Market Share stats for April, 2009, showing the Mac OS with slightly less than sideways growth. Windows dropped below 90% in November, '08 and has stayed there, also losing a fraction of a percentage point over the month of April, while Linux gained a more than a tenth of a point to move over one percent, while the iPhone version of OS X was up half a point. iPod touch, new to our list of OSes tracked is now the fifth most prolific at 0.15%.

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

Windows 87.90% (88.14%)
Mac 9.73% (9.77%)
Linux 1.02% (0.90% (0.88%)
iPhone 0.55% (0.49%)
iPod Touch 0.15%

Comparing longer term, at 87.90% Windows is down roughly seven percentage points since May 2006 (95.09%), while the Mac OS at 9.73% 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 1.02%..

In terms of versions:

Windows:
Windows XP 62.21% (62.85%)
Windows Vista 23.90% (23.42%)
Windows 2000 1.15% (1.24%)
Windows NT 0.11% (0.12%)
Windows 98 0.17% (0.19%)
Windows ME 0.11% (0.12%)


Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 6.17% (6.00%)
Mac OS X 10.4 2.55% (2.66%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.77% (0.86%)
iPhone 0.55% (0.49%)
iPod 0.15% (0.11% )
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.23% (0.25%)

Linux 1.02% (0.90%)

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 but bounced back in April, while Safari also lost ground in April, and Internet Explorer continues to slowly fade. Google's newcomer (and so far Windows-only) Chrome now has nearly 1.5 percent of the browser market. Opera has remained static at within a tenth of a point of 0.7 percent for the past four months, and oddly slipped behind long-discontinued Netscape in April.

Browser Total Market Share:

Microsoft Internet Explorer  - 66.10% (66.82%)

Firefox  - 22.48% (22.05%)

Safari  8.21% (8.23%)

Chrome - 1.42% (1.23%)

Netscape  - 0.82% (0.69%)

Opera -   0.68% (0.70%)

Mozilla  -  0.10% (0.10%)

Opera Mini  -   0.07% (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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