This article from Marketshare is being widely quoted on the blogs at the moment – saying that Apple’s presence on the internet has gone to above 7.3%. That’s great. It also says that Apple made even greater gains in the last week in December.

Of course they did. Many corporate (therefore Windows users) were on holiday. thus skewing the stats. Ignore that bit of the report.

The very interesting thing though is to note the numbers for Vista in comparison to OSX. You’ll find them here – 10.48% for Vista, 7.5% for OSX.

This reinforces something we’ve been saying for a while. The upgrade path to Vista from XP is not automatic. People are evaluating their options. Of course, I don’t expect companies with significant structural investment in Microsoft operating systems to jump ship overnight. But I believe they should keep their minds open, and consider carefully their best and most cost-effective approach for their future IT requirements.

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