Linux market share set to surpass Win 98, OS X still ahead of Vista

Ars Technica ^ | September 3rd | Ryan Paul

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Recent statistics released by W3Counter reveal that the market share of Windows 98 fell from 1.44 percent to 1.34 percent in August, reducing it to the same level of popularity as the open source Linux operating system, which saw its market share increase from 1.33 to 1.34 in the same period. If the steady downward trend in Windows 98's market share continues, the popularity of Linux will soon surpass that of Microsoft's outdated, nine-year-old Windows version.

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It seems to me a very odd distribution of hits with respect to countries (Latvia has 4% of the hits, Turkey's presence in the top 10, and Japan and Korea are nowhere on the list, all of which strike me as odd):

1. United States 30.40%
2. Germany 7.52%
3. United Kingdom 5.99%
4. Latvia 4.05%
5. Canada 3.41%
6. France 3.09%
7. Netherlands 3.00%
8. Turkey 2.48%
9. Australia 2.44%
10. China 2.11%

That list of countries makes me wonder exactly what 5,722 websites are being monitored by "W3Counter".