On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Chuck Cole wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org >> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mike Miller >> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:12 AM >> >> >> That's all I'm saying - these giants die very slowly. Microsoft has 90% >> of the desktop OS market worldwide. People say they are dying, but how >> long will it take to get them down to 10% of the world market? If a >> company has 10% of the desktops in the world, I sure wouldn't call them >> dead. I hope that I live another 50 years, but I think Microsoft is >> very likely to outlive me. >> > > Something I saw claimed that SUSE has over 50% of the desktop share in > Europe and the percentage is growing. Might only be corporate share. That would be awesome. Let me know if you find a reference. I found this, but I think it only applies to the US: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2 Windows ME has more than twice the market share of Linux, and Windows 98 has about five times the market share of Linux. So maybe in a year or two Linux will defeat Windows ME and we can have a little party to celebrate! ;-) In he month before Vista was released, it already had almost have the market share of Linux, according to netapplications.com. Windows OSs have about 95.4% of the total. Mike