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Windows XP sales rocket to 46+ million

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lazygamer:
Ah, but if were talking about MS controlled futures then don't forget about all the W95/98/W2000/ME/NT machines too. So what if alot of users switched to Linux, there is probably tons of non-XP wind0ze users.

voidmain:
But the subject is about XP.  No one is seriously trying to say that there is anything but a tiny fraction of Linux users out there.  You'ld have to be pretty stupid to think otherwise.  However, it is entirely possible/probable that there are fewer XP users than the "copies sold" number. And it is also probable that the number of copies of "Linux in use" is much higher than any statistic would show because there is no way to track how many copies are in use.  It also seems from every indication that Linux is steadily and exponentially becoming more popular. You can't say that for Windows as they already have nearly 100% of the market.

cocoamix:
*(insert favorite artist of choice)* will NEVER overtake Britney Spears. She's sold more albums than *(insert favorite artist of choice)* has ever sold in their career.
It makes me all happy inside.

creedon:

quote:Originally posted by cocoamix:
*(insert favorite artist of choice)* will NEVER overtake Britney Spears. She's sold more albums than *(insert favorite artist of choice)* has ever sold in their career.
It makes me all happy inside.
--- End quote ---

EXCELLENT analogy; my personal favorite artist (and one of my favorite human beings!!) Frank Zappa only had 2 songs that ever got ANY popular notice (Valley Girl was a minor hit), but he was more of a musician than 99% of the so-called artists that ever got a Grammy!
You can't judge anything by numbers; they can be easily manipuated to show anything you want them to!!

lazygamer:
Actually, remember that site www.osdata.com? http://www.osdata.com/kind/windows.htm

This mentions how MS has 26% of the market share and how 60% of defaced websites are windows based.(Could someone do some math stuff to determine how much more % vunerable windows servers are compared to non windows)

The point here is not the lack of MS security. The point is that there is HORDES of websites on the internet, and 74% of them belong to non-wind0ze servers. Even if there not all Linux, woulden't these numbers indicate a huge amount of Linux servers nonetheless? That's alot of "copies".  ;)

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