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Linux's Netbook Market Share Pegged At 32 Percent
By: Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
2009-12-10
Maybe Windows isn't quite the behemoth most people believe it to be. New data from ABI Research indicates that Linux is doing quite well in a certain small-machine market, at least, with exactly 32 percent of netbooks shipping with a form of it installed.
That's roughly 4.5 times higher than the market share Microsoft is willing to attribute to Linux. Microsoft likes to cite stats claiming that it controls about 93 percent of the netbook market, which of course only leaves 7 percent for everybody else.
ABI Research, meanwhile, believes that Windows ships on just 68 percent of netbooks.
While talking to Jeff Orr, an analyst at ABI Research, Eric Lai also uncovered this interesting view on the Linux-Windows war: "Orr predicted Linux will overtake Windows on netbooks by 2013. That will be driven by consumers in less-developed countries buying Linux netbooks as their primary PCs, rather than North American consumers buying netbooks as secondary machines as predominates today."
All of this represents potentially great news for Linux developers, of course, if they in fact have a significant audience to serve now and a much bigger one to look forward to in the future.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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