5251 Two months ago NetApplications revised the methodology it uses to tally its HitsLink Market Share statistics watch so the September figures provide secind first month-over-month comparison under the 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 September, 2009, based on the new calculating methodology (August '09 figures in parentheses) showing a bit of little change over the past month in the Mac OS's favor, and OS 10.6 makes its debut in the stats, with 18% of Macs already running Snow Leopard:

Windows 92.77% (93.06%)
Mac 5.12% (4.87%)
Linux 0.95%. (0.94%)
iPhone 0.35% (0.33%)
JavaME 0.30% (0.31%)
Symbian 0.15% (0.14%)
iPod touch 0.07% (not rated last month)
Windows Mobile 0.04% (0.04%)
Playstation 0.03%
Android 0.02%
BlackBerry 0.02%
Palm 0.01%
FreeBSD 0.01%
unOS 0.01%


In terms of versions:

Windows:
Windows XP 71.91% (71.79%)
Windows Vista 18.62% (18.80%)
Windows 7 1.52% (1.18%)
Windows 2000 0.988% (0.93%)
Windows 98 0.13% (0.14%)
Windows ME 0.11% (0.12%)
Windows NT 0.11% (0.11%)

Macintosh:
Mac OS X 10.5 3.45% (3.92%)
Mac OS X 10.4 0.96% (0.99%)
MacOS X 10.6 0.77%
iPhone 0.35% (0.33%)
Mac OS X (no version reported) 0.27 (0.28%)
iPod 0.07% (0.07%)
Mac OS X Mach-O 0.08% (0.09%)

Linux 0.95% (0.94%)

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, there was more good news for my favorite browser, Opera, which now has a cumulative 2.49 percent share when Opera Mini is included, thanks largely to its popularity in Eastern Europe and Asia. The new Opera 10 final released a month ago seems to have boosted use a bit. The Firefox browser still is nibbling away at Internet Explorer's erstwhile hegemony, while Safari gained over the month, and Firefox was the biggest gainer among browsers with Google's newcomer (and so far Windows-only) Chrome the runner up.

Browser Total Market Share (August figures in parentheses):

Microsoft Internet Explorer - 65.71% (66.97%)

Firefox - 23.75% (22.98%)

Safari 4.24% (4.07%)

Chrome - 3.17% (2.59%)

Opera - 2.19% (2.04%)

Netscape - 0.35% (0.49%)

Opera Mini - 0.30% (0.31%)

Mozilla - 0.11% (0.11%)

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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