4871 The gradural erosion of Windows OS market share continued in January. 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 January, 2010, based on the new calculating methodology (December '09 figures in parentheses) showing the change during the past month, with the the Mac OS gaining again after slipping a tiny bit in December, but Windows likewise. JavaME has edged the iPhone OS out of fourth place for the past two months, iPod touch gains two-tenths of a point and Android's share is up a smidge over the month.

Windows 92.00 (92.21%)
Mac 5.16 (5.11%)
Linux 1.02% (1.02%)
JavaME 0.59% (0.53%)
iPhone 0.48% (0.44%)
Symbian 0.24% (0.23%)
iPod touch 0.11% (0.09%)
Windows Mobile 0.07% (0.06%)
Android  0.06% (0.05% )
Playstation  0.05% (0.04%)
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 gains nearly two points in a single month while Windows XP and Vista fade, and Snow Leopard has now doubled Tiger's share:

Windows:
Windows XP 66.15% (67.77%)
Windows Vista 17.47% (17.48%)
Windows 7 7.57% (5.71 %)
Windows 2000 0.57% (0.62)
Windows NT 0.11% (0.10)
Windows 98 0.08% (0.09%)
Windows ME 0.05% (0.05%)


Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 2.37% (2.47%)
MacOS X 10.6 1.80% (1.60%)
Mac OS X 10.4 0.77% (0.80%)

iPhone 0.48% (0.53%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.17% (0.19)
iPod 0.11% (0.09%)
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.05% (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 more and remains just shy of one-quarter of the browser market, while Safari gained a tiny bit in January, but still stays bumped to fourth place behind surging Chrome, which now has a Mac public beta out. Opera is hanging in at fifth, basically static while Opera Mini remains the 6th place browser.

Browser Total Market Share (December '09 figures in parentheses):

Microsoft Internet Explorer  - 62.12% (62.69%)

Firefox  - 24.43% (24.61)

Chrome - 5.22% (4.63%)

Safari  4.53% (4.46%)

Opera -   2.38% (2.40%)

Opera Mini  -  0.59% (0.53%)

Netscape  - 0.36% (0.32)

Mozilla  -   0.14% (0.13%)

Konqueror - 0.03% (0.04%)

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


Charles W. Moore

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