Operating System And Browser Market Shares For August

3269 Here's the NetMarketShare Operating System Total Market Share rundown of the significant players for August, 2010 (June '10 figures in parentheses) treacking changes over the the past two months. Analysis summary is simple. The iOS gained ground, now surpassing Linux. Windows stayed virtually static while the Mac OS lost ground.

Windows 91.34 (91.46%)
Mac 5.00% (5.16%)
iOS 1.13% (0.88)
JavaME 0.86% (0.65)
Linux 0.85% (1.07%)
Symbian 0.27% (0.25%)
Android 0.20% (0.14%)
BlackBerry 0.09% 0.07%)
Windows Mobile 0.09% (0.04%)

Operating System Versions

In terms of OS specific versions, with Windows, it was a Windows 7 show, with all ohter versions dropping back percentage-wise (although XP and Vista are still in front in raw numbers of users). Apple's OS 10.6 Snow Leopard the most prolific Mac OS version prowling for a third month, roughly quadrupling OS 10.4 Tiger's receding user share (only receding by two-tenths of a point last month) - a contrast with Windows, whose OS 10.4 contemporary Windows XP is still the most prolific verson in the Windows space.

Windows:
Windows XP 60.89% (62.49%)
Windows 7 15.87% (13.70%)
Windows Vista 14.00% (14.68%)
Windows 2000 0.40% (0.45%)
Windows NT 0.10% (0.11% )

Macintosh:
MacOS X 10.6 - 2.59% (2.47%)
Mac OS X 10.5 - 1.73% (1.90%)
Mac OS X 10.4 0.55% (0.66%)
iOS 1.13% (1.07%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.10% (0.12)
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.03% (0.03)

Linux 0.85% (1.07%)

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Browser Share

Turning to browsers, Internet Explorer is down a bit since June and Firefox virtually static. with Chrome and Safari the biggest gainers over the summer among the major browsers with Opera and Opera Mini both gaining as well.

Browser Total Market Share (June '10 figures in parentheses):

Microsoft Internet Explorer  - 60.32% (59.69%)

Firefox  - 23.81% (24.35%)

Chrome - 7.34% (7.05%)

Safari  4.65% (4.77%)

Opera -   2.37% (2.27%)

Opera Mini  -  0.88% (0.66%)

Netscape  - 0.47% (0.56%)

Mozilla  -   0.03% (0.03%)

Flock 0.06% (0.06%)

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


Charles W. Moore




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