And Microsoft estimates Linux Desktop usage to be ...

2009-08-07T15:43:32.151-07:00

And Microsoft estimates Linux Desktop usage to be the same as MacOSx usage around 10 to 15%.

I have a sneaking suspicion the Microsoft estimate is the more accurate.

I've always found the stats available at seti@...

2009-08-07T08:56:04.201-07:00

I've always found the stats available at seti@home (BOINC)
http://boincstats.com/stats/host_os_stats.php?pr=sah&st=0

and Folding@home (Stanford)
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats
to be "interesting", though it's hard to say that the figures are truely representative than, say, W3Counter.

The overall BOINC stats are here
http://boincstats.com/stats/host_os_stats.php?pr=bo&st=0
And checking out the OS share stats for various other BOINC projects gives some idea how much variability can creep into the results from various unstated biases (the most obvious being whether the project has clients, or easily installed clients, available for each relevant operating system.

I suspect that Seti@home is the most "neutral" (certainly the best known and most accessible to a "typical user), but I couldn't prove it.

Bernard Swiss

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And Microsoft estimates Linux Desktop usage to be ...

I've always found the stats available at seti@...