7878 Not much movement in OS market share again in December. Five months ago NetApplications revised the methodology it uses to tally its HitsLink Market Share statistics to a new system of weighting the data which now gives more prominence to page views globally based on the estimated size of each country's Internet population, rather than focusing mostly on the U.S. and other Western markets as had previously been the case.

So here's the Operating System Total Market Share rundown of the significant players for December, 2009, based on the new calculating methodology (November '09 figures in parentheses) showing little change during the past month, with the the Mac OS slipping a tiny bit, but Windows likewise. JavaME has nudged the iPhone OS out of fourth place, and Android's share is up 66 percent over the month.

Windows 92.21% (92.52%)
Mac 5.11% (5.12%)
Linux 1.02% (1.00%)
JavaME 0.53% (0.46%)
iPhone 0.44% (0.36%)
Symbian 0.23% (0.19%)
iPod touch 0.09% (0.07%)
Windows Mobile 0.06% (0.04%)
Android  0.05% (0.03% )
Playstation  0.04% (0.03%)
BlackBerry 0.03% (0.03%) 
Palm  0.01%  (0.01%)
FreeBSD  0.01% (0.01% )
SunOS  0.01% (0.01%)


In terms of OS specific versions, Windows 7 continues to gain ground on Windows XP and Vista and Snow Leopard has now doubled Tiger's share:

Windows:
Windows XP 67.77% (69.05%)
Windows Vista 17.87% (18.55%)
Windows 7 5.71% (4.00%)
Windows 2000 0.62% (0.69)
Windows NT 0.10% (0.09)
Windows 98 0.09% (0.09%)
Windows ME 0.05% (0.04%)


Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 2.47% (2.65%)
MacOS X 10.6 1.60% (1.38%)
Mac OS X 10.4 0.80% (0.84%)

iPhone 0.53% (0.36%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.19% (0.22)
iPod 0.09% (0.07%)
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.06% (0.06%)

Linux 1.02% (1.00%)

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 to browsers, Internet Explorer is still losing ground, but somewhat slower, presumably due to Windows 7 growth. Firefox browser slipped a bit and remains just shy of one-quarter of the browser market, while Safari gained a tenth of a point in December, but still got bumped to fourth place behind surging Chrome, which now has a Mac public beta out. Opera is hanging in at fifth and gained some ground and Opera Mini remains the 6th place browser.

Browser Total Market Share (August figures in parentheses):

Microsoft Internet Explorer  - 62.69% (63.62%)

Firefox  - 24.61% (24.72)

Chrome - 4.63% (3.93%)

Safari  4.46% (4.36%)

Opera -   2.40% (2.31%)

Opera Mini  -  0.53% (0.46%)

Netscape  - 0.32% (0.30)

Mozilla  -   0.13% (0.10%)

Konqueror - 0.04% (0.05%)

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


Charles W. Moore

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