Microsoft vs. Linux – Should Microsoft worry?

NetApplications, a company running the MarketShare site, reported earlier today that Linux usage share on client devices has surpassed 1% for the first time in their tracking.

According to MarketShare “Linux has been successful primarily as a server operating system, but client usage share has not kept pace with server share. Linux has reached this important milestone on the client as Linux-based systems have become more functional, easier to use, and pre-installed on computers from vendors like Dell.”

Although Windows usage is decreasing (91.58%, April 2008 / 87.90%, April 2009)  it seems that Microsoft shouldn’t worry about Linux yet. The increasing usage of Mac OS is likely more worrying…

In the Browsers area, things are a bit different…

As for April 2009, Internet Explorer is leading with 66.10%, about 8% less than the same time last year (74.83%) while Firefox with 22.48%,about 5% more than the the same time last year (17.76%).

                  April 2009                                                                     April 2008

Recently, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8, which presented lot of improvements from it’s predecessors, hopefully for Microsoft, it will stop the decreasing use of Internet Explorer.