[Tfug] Hate to say I told you so..

[Andrew Ayre]

All three articles appear to reference the same study, performed by Net 
Applications. On this page:

http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/Windows-7-and-Vista-Up-Mac-OS-X-Up-Linux-and-XP-Down-4.jpg

the second article shows a graph, with the credit "Image credits: Net 
Applications". As this is linked to the same article Eric referenced and 
the image is credited to Net Applications, I would assume this is the 
raw data.

I generated my own graph of the Linux column, which you can see here:

http://files.britishideas.com/public/tfug/linuxusage.jpg

I'm not sure what conclusion I would draw from that data. I don't think 
I would claim a decline, unless I was only comparing the latest data 
with the previous month.

Andy

Eric Gearhart wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com> wrote:
>> Eric,
>>
>> Can you please post your source(s) for the statistics that show the drop in
>> Linux desktop usage? I would like to learn more about it, including the
>> methodology used.
>>
>> thanks, Andy
> 
> Sure... there are a couple of tech news sites that are covering it...
> I think I read it first at OSnews:
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/thread?346770
> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-7-and-Vista-Up-Mac-OS-X-Up-Linux-and-XP-Down-103514.shtml
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000498&subSection=All+Stories
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Andy
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