Linux Desktop Nearly Doubles Market Share in 3 Months
One of the metrics for how well a dominant operating system is doing is looking at the competition's market share. Well, Linux went from 1.99% in May to 3.37% in August, nearly doubling its market share, according to
Net Market Share.
The raw numbers don't look impressive, 3.37%, but when the competition doubles its market share in four months and you are the dominant player in the market, chances are you are doing something, or SEVERAL things, severely wrong. Microsoft is screwing the pooch here and as usual (example: Terraserver) don't care and don't connect the success of their new core businesses with the health of their operating system.
To quote the article above "It is worthy to note that Linux distros dominate the market in servers and embedded devices. Not to forget that Linux simply rules super-computers with almost all of the top 500 supercomputers running on Linux." Microsoft is nearing the tipping point. When it happens calamity will happen suddenly and irreparably.