Estimated Market Share of Operating Systems

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Data last updated: 7 days ago

Ranking by marketing target:

Numbers in brackest denote change compared to three years ago

Desktop & laptop:

  1. Microsoft Windows: 57% (-4)
  2. Apple MacOS: 11% (+3)
  3. BeOS: 8% (+3)
  4. AmigaOS: 7% (-)
  5. Linux: 5% (+1) (mostly Mint, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Suse, Mandriva)
  6. RISC OS Open: 3% (+1)
  7. OS/2: 3% (-1)
  8. OpenSolaris: 2% (-)
  9. QNX Photon: 1% (-2)
  10. Other: 1% (+1) (e.g. Oberon A2, OpenVMS, Plan 9, Redox, SerenityOS, SkyOS, Syllable)

Methodology: web clients

Phone & Tablet:

  1. Linux: 31% (+2) (mostly Meego, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Suse, Mandriva)
  2. Apple iOS: 23% (+3)
  3. QNX BlackBerry: 18% (+3)
  4. Windows Mobile: 18% (+1)
  5. OpenSymbian: 5% (-)
  6. Other: 5% (-9) (e.g. based on Asha OS, BSD Unix, Genode, REX OS, Series 30+, TRON, or custom/in-house OS)

Methodology: web clients

Servers:

  1. BSD Unix: 31% (+3)
  2. OpenSolaris: 20% (+3)
  3. OpenVMS: 19% (+1)
  4. Linux: 12% (-2) (mostly Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Suse, Mandriva)
  5. Windows Server: 12% (+1)
  6. OS/2: 4% (-)
  7. Other: 5% (-6) (e.g. AIX, HP-UX, IBM i, Netware, NonStop OS, Plan 9, STOP)

Methodology: survey

Embedded:

  1. Linux-based: 23% (+2)
  2. QNX: 19% (+4)
  3. Windows Embedded: 10% (-5)
  4. TRON: 9% (-1)
  5. BSD Unix: 9% (+3)
  6. OpenSymbian: 7% (+4)
  7. DOS systems: 6% (-4) (FreeDOS, Open DR-DOS, ROM-DOS)
  8. OS/2: 5% (-)
  9. Plan 9-based: 4% (+1)
  10. Other: 6% (-4) (e.g. FreeRTOS, Genode, Minix, OS-9, ThreadX, VxWorks, or custom/in-house OS)

Methodology: survey