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The gradual erosion of Windows OS market share continued in February. Six 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.
Here's the Operating System Total Market Share rundown of the significant players for February, 2010, based on the new calculating methodology (January '10 figures in parentheses) showing the change during the past month, with the the Mac OS slipping a bit and Windows up slightly, although surprisingly little considering the generallly good press Windows 7's been getting. JavaME has edged the iPhone OS out of fourth place for the past three months, and Android's share is up slightly again over the month.
Windows 92.12 (92.00%)
Mac 5.02 (5.16%)
Linux 0.98% (1.02%)
JavaME 0.64% (0.59%)
iPhone 0.50% (0.48%)
Symbian 0.23% (0.24%)
iPod touch 0.11% (0.11%)
Windows Mobile 0.07% (0.07%)
Android 0.07% (0.06% )
Playstation 0.04% (0.05%)
BlackBerry 0.04% (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's momentum has slowed to gain just half a point over the month compared to a two-point uptick in January, while Windows XP and Vista fade, and Apple's OS 10.6 Snow Leopard has now more than doubled OS 10.4 Tiger's receding user share - a contrast with Windows, whose OS 10.4 contemporary Windows XP is still far and away the most prolific verson in the Windows space.
Windows:
Windows XP 65.49 (66.15%)
Windows Vista 16.51 (17.47%)
Windows 7 8.92 (7.57%)
Windows 2000 0.56% (0.57)
Windows NT 0.52% (0.11)
Windows 98 0.07% (0.08%)
Windows ME 0.04% (0.05%)
Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 2.21% (2.37%)
MacOS X 10.6 1.88% (1.80%)
Mac OS X 10.4 0.72% (0.77%)
iPhone 0.50 (0.48%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.15% (0.17)
iPod 0.11% (0.11%)
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.04% (0.05%)
Linux 0.98% (1.02%)
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
Browser Share
Turning to browsers, also very little change last month. Internet Explorer is still losing ground, and Firefox again came up just shy of one-quarter of the browser market (will it ever hit 25% with Chrome coming on strong?), while Safari slipped a bit in February, but is still in fourth place behind Chrome. Opera is hanging in at fifth, static while Opera Mini remains the 6th place browser and gained slightly.
Browser Total Market Share (December '09 figures in parentheses):
Microsoft Internet Explorer - 61.58% (62.12%)
Firefox - 24.23% (24.43)
Chrome - 5.81 (5.22%)
Safari 4.45% (4.53%)
Opera - 2.35% (2.35%)
Opera Mini - 0.64% (0.59%)
Netscape - 0.75% (0.36)
Mozilla - 0.14% (0.14%)
Konqueror - 0.03% (0.03%)
You can check it out at:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0
Charles W. Moore
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