ArsTechnica posted the latest operating system market share statistics. As of December, 2009, Windows is still the lions share of the market at 92.21%. OS/X is a very distant second at 5.11% and Linux trails at 1.02%.
The trend is very slightly downward for Windows. It went from 93.66% in January, 2009 to 92.21% [...]
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It’s market share time again – who’s winning? Windows, of course.
January 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Computing
Putting things in perspective
November 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Computing
The hot technical topic is alternative operating systems. But, with the release of Windows 7, let’s put things into perspective.
Here are the estimated Worldwide OS usage figures for October 2009:
70.48 – Windows XP
18.83 – Windows Vista
2.82 – OS/X 10.5
2.15 – Windows 7
1.17 – OS/X 10.6
0.96 – Linux (all versions)
0.93 – OS/X 10.4
0.78 – Windows [...]
What do those weird Mac symbols mean?
April 28th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
Mac’s like their inexplicable keyboard symbols. Mac documentation, both for Apple software and third-party software make heavy use of keyboard symbols and often don’t take time to explain them. It takes a little hunting around to find what the characters mean.
Keyboard keys are the first, biggest stumbling block when switching to a Mac from Windows [...]
Feature-driven versus Date-driven
October 20th, 2008 · View Comments · Consulting
Very interesting blog post by a developer at Microsoft (http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/10/15/engineering-7-a-view-from-the-bottom.aspx). He describes what it’s been like working at Microsoft, comparing the Vista days to the current “Windows 7″ days.
What it boils down to is that Microsoft has switched from a Feature-driven development strategy to a Date-driven strategy. It should come as no great [...]
Running Oracle for Development on the Mac
October 3rd, 2008 · View Comments · Mac
Update: Oracle has released 10g for OS/X. Here’s a third-party guide to installing it.
Oracle still hasn’t come out with a current version of their database for the Mac. If you need to work with an Oracle database and need a local copy for development this is a problem. Luckily it’s one that [...]
Ubuntu Sucks
September 18th, 2008 · View Comments · Linux
Well, at least Greg Kroah-Hartman thinks so. He gave the keynote speech at the Linux Kernel Hackers conference. Greg is a key hacker on the Linux kernel.
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/lpc_2008_keynote.html
Greg ended up by stating (indirectly) that Ubuntu employees should quit and go to work for companies like RedHat and Novell.
Let’s take a quick look at his numbers. They [...]
