The software used to access the BBC homepage: Operating systems - part 2
by Martin Belam, 22 October 2005
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Operating systems visiting the BBC homepage
The complete dominance of Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 is no surprise. Just over 70% of requests to the BBC homepage come from machines running Windows XP, and IE6 took 78% of the browser market.
In the operating system sphere the stranglehold of Windows is nearly complete - a computer running a version of Windows accounted for 95% of requests to the BBC homepage. Mac users accounted for 4.4%, with various Linux distributions making up another 0.41%.
| Operating System Share of Requests to the BBC Homepage | |
|---|---|
| Windows XP | 67% |
| Windows 2000 | 16.5% |
| Windows 98 | 6.6% |
| Apple Macintosh (Various versions) | 4.4% |
| Windows (Various versions including CE, 3.1 and ambiguous UAs) | 2.1% |
| Windows NT | 1.8% |
| Windows NT5.2 | 0.6% |
| Linux (various distributions) | 0.41% |
| Windows 95 | 0.20% |
| Windows Vista | 0.15% |
| Solaris | 0.04% |
| OS/2 Warp | 0.001% |
