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MS Down, Mac, Linux Up

By gregladen on March 22, 2008.

For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a percentage of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the Mac, but, while no one does a good job of tracking the still-new, pre-installed Linux desktop market, it's also clear that Linux is finally making impressive inroads into Windows' once unchallenged market share.

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I think this says more about how horrid Vista is, than Linux and Mac.

Unfortunately, your source doesn't provide enough information to give a reader any confidence that their market analysis is accurate. They point to NPD.com but there is nothing on the NPD website that indicates an analysis of computer sales.

Another thing you need to be aware of -- NPD only reports sales through mass-market big box stores, so none of Apple's sales through its own stores or through any internet retailers are included. I'd imagine that that also excludes a lot of sales of Linux systems. (This info on NPD is buried among a lot of other stuff in this report: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q1.07/FFE4A8E2-9816-4344-9FB0… )

I work in the Microsoftest college on campus, and though our desktop base is all PC+MS, we are acquiring more Apple servers. And I am seeing a huge uptick in the number of macbooks being toted around by our ever-so-earnest business majors.

Cracks in the dam - and when the critical point is reached, the dam fails almost instantaneously. Just like this metaphor.

Cracks in the dam - and when the critical point is reached, the dam fails almost instantaneously. Just like this metaphor.

Checkmate!