3114 It's been a couple of months since we looked at Hitslink's OS and Browser market share figures. Four 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 November, 2009, based on the new calculating methodology (Sept. '09 figures in parentheses) showing no change over the past two months in the Mac OS's favor, but essentially no change for Windows either. Things have remained remarkably static across the board.

Windows 92.52% (92.77%)
Mac 5.12% (5.12%)
Linux 1.00% (0.95%)
iPhone 0.36% (0.35%)
JavaME 0.46% (0.30%)
Symbian 0.19% (0.15%)
iPod touch 0.07% (0.07%)
Windows Mobile 0.04% (0.04%)
Playstation  0.03% (0.03% )
Android  0.03% (0.02%)
BlackBerry 0.30% ( 0.02%) 
Palm  0.01%  (0.01%)
FreeBSD  0.01% (0.01% )
SunOS  0.01% (0.01%)


In terms of OS specific versions, Windows 7 has gained ground on Windows XP and Vista and Snow Leopard has leapfrogged over Tiger:

Windows:
Windows XP 69.05% (71.91%)
Windows Vista 18.55% (18.62%)
Windows 7 4.00% (1.52%)
Windows 2000 0.69% ( 0.988%)
Windows 98 0.09% (0.13%)
Windows ME 0.04% (0.11%)
Windows NT 0.09% (0.11%)

Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 2.65% (3.45%)
MacOS X 10.6 1.38% (0.77%
Mac OS X 10.4 0.84% (0.96%)

iPhone 0.36% (0.35%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.22 (0.27%)
iPod 0.07% (0.07%)
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.06% (0.08%)

Linux 1.00% (0.95%)

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, Firefox browser still is nibbling away at Internet Explorer's erstwhile hegemony and now enjoys just shy of one-quarter of the browser market, while Safari has also gained some ground over the two months, and Firefox was the biggest gainer among browsers with Google's newcomer Chrome solidly in fourth place, with a Mac beta version expected any day now, Opera scratching out a it more ground and Opera Mini now the 6th place browser.

Browser Total Market Share (August figures in parentheses):

Microsoft Internet Explorer  - 63.62% (65.71%)

Firefox  - 24.72 (23.75%)

Safari  4.36% (4.24%)

Chrome - 3.93% (3.17%)

Opera -   2.31% (2.19%)

Opera Mini  -  0.46% (0.30%)

Netscape  - 0.30 (0.35%)

Mozilla  -   0.10% (0.11%)

Konqueror - 0.05% (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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