Installed base of Mac users on the rise
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 1, 2007 at 10:59am
The installed base of Apple computers rose nearly 6.7 percent in the month of September to 6.6 percent of personal computers, driven largely by a one-month 12.7 percent increase in Intel-based Macs, according to market research released today by Net Applications, which samples operating system data from visitors to a network of some 40,000 web sites.
The Net Applications’ method is less of a measure of market share than installed base, according to an Apple 2.0 blog. By Net Applications’ reckoning, more than 90 percent of the computers on the Internet are running some flavor of Windows while 6.6 percent are running a version of Mac OS X. Nearly 3.4 percent are categorized as “other,” which includes 0.81 percent Linux and 0.07 percent iPhone (up from 0.05 percent in August).
Among mainstream operating systems, Vista was the fastest-growing, up more than 15 percent for the month, although Windows’ numbers overall were down slightly. Linux and iPhone both showed double-digit gains, up better than 18 percent and 28 percent, respectively. The iPhone data were taken too early to reflect the effect of the software update last week that rendered unlocked phones inoperable.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
