Sounds impressive, but Linux was starting from a rather small base in traditional sales channels: of all PCs sold in the UK last January through indirect channels, a feeble 0.1 per cent had Linux preloaded, according to numbers given to us by market research firm Context.
The Linux share of this route to market has edged up ever since the Vista launch. Then it broke the two per cent barrier in May after the latest release of Ubuntu, the strain of Linux most capable of kicking Microsoft in the shins.
Microsoft is still be shipped with 93 per cent of all PCs sold through distribution in the UK, according to Context.
Linux preinstalls up 28x in UK - still only 2.8%
Posted on Sunday, August 10 2008 @ 19:11 CEST by Thomas De MaesschalckThe Inq reports sales of PCs with Linux preloaded have shot up 28 times in the UK since Microsoft launched Windows Vista in January 2007. Sounds impressive but Linux's marketshare is still only 2.8%.
