93% of all internet web surfers worldwide are from Microsoft OS. SOmething to cheer up; is internet new-economy?
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- WebSideStory, Inc. (www.websidestory.com), the pioneer and leading provider of real-time Internet intelligence and Web audience analysis, today reported that the global Web usage share of Apple's Macintosh OS has remained steady at around 3% since early 1999. The data shows that while Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - news) has retained a core following among Web surfers worldwide, it has been unable to make any advances into Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) dominant global OS share. As of Oct. 4, 2000, the Mac OS accounted for 2.84% of all monitored Internet usage, according to WebSideStory's StatMarket. Windows had a usage share of 92.82% on the same date, while Unix had 0.44%. Other operating systems, including Microsoft's WebTV, Linux, Sun SunOS, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Amiga, and IBM OS/2 among others, had an aggregate 3.90% usage share worldwide |
