Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent

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Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent

Post by greggh » Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:15 am

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-991026 ... heOpenRoad
Linux went from 1.25 percent in May of 2007 to 2.02 percent in March of 2008. That is 61.6 percent increase in market share in nine months. [Put another way,] that is 82 percent annual growth in installed computers.
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Re: Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent

Post by Wally Balljacker » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:56 pm

ZOMG, 2 percent! Time to break out the cigars and champaign. :lol:
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Re: Linux desktop market share is up as much as 61 percent

Post by davijordan » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:57 pm

I have a friend who had a really messed up windows xp mce box. I cleaned it up and now after that nightmare from viruses and spyware , she wants me to do her laptop with linux.
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