On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Steve Siegfried wrote: > OS rankings published by OneStat.com on 14Aug2006: > > > The 10 most popular operating systems in the world on the web are: > > > > 1. Windows XP 86.80% > > 2. Windows 2000 6.09% > > 3. Windows 98 2.68% > > 4. Macintosh 2.32% > > 5. Windows ME 1.09% > > 6. Linux 0.36% > > 7. Windows NT 0.24% > > 8. Macintosh Power PC 0.15% > > ... > > > Methodology: A global usage share of xx percent > > for OS Y means that xx percent of the visitors > > of Internet users arrived at sites that are > > using one of OneStat.com's services by using the > > particular number of OS Y. All numbers mentioned > > in the research are averages and all measurements > > are normalised to the GMT timezone. Research is > > based on a sample of 2 million visitors divided > > into 20,000 visitors of 100 countries each day. Is it possible that Linux machines don't identify as such? I don't know why a machine would give it's OS to a web site! It seems like a bad idea, so maybe Linux users avoid it. Linux definitely has more market share on the server, as you suggested. Mike