Most Popular Operating Systems

∟Year 2008 Reports - Part I

∟Most Popular Operating Systems

The most popular operating systems based on browser signature strings in log files for 196 days of year 2008.

The following table shows the most popular operating systems for 196 days of year 2008, with 2 weeks of log files missing. Data used in this table come from the operating system report generated by Analog 6.0 using log files from herongyang.com.

  pages      %pages      OS
-------      ------      -------
1425956      49.59%      Windows
   1139914      39.64%      Windows XP
    106760       3.71%      Unknown Windows
     84911       2.95%      Windows 2000
     59198       2.06%      Windows Server 2003
     19951       0.69%      Windows NT
     12213       0.42%      Windows 98
      1270       0.04%      Windows ME
      1144       0.04%      Windows 95
       499       0.02%      Windows CE
        96                  Windows 3.1
 928170      32.28%      OS unknown
 419805      14.60%      Known robots
  64436       2.24%      Unix
     62797       2.18%      Linux
       970       0.03%      SunOS
       603       0.02%      BSD
        34                  IRIX
        16                  HP-UX
        11                  AIX
         4                  Other Unix
         1                  OSF1
  36335      1.26%       Macintosh
    341      0.01%       Symbian OS
    104                  BeOS
     73                  RISC OS
     57                  OS/2
     46                  OpenVMS
     44                  Amiga
     22                  WebTV

Comparing to year 2007, there is a significant drop in popularity for Windows, 65.03% in year 2007, and 49.59% in year 2008. This drop is related to the increase of "OS unknown" from 17.89% to 32.28%, which is probably caused by the huge amount of Yandex indexing requests mentioned in the previous section.