Microsoft Windows XP Off To Fast Start
StatMarket | at | by Mike
Web Usage Share of Microsoft's Newest Operating System Rises to More Than 2 Percent in Its First Two Weeks of Release
WebSideStory, Inc. the world's leading provider of outsourced e-business intelligence services, today reported that Microsoft Windows XP has gotten off to a quick start in only its second week of release. As of November 5, 2001, the new operating system's global usage share had risen to 2.36 percent, according to WebSideStory's StatMarket, a Web site design optimization service and a leading source for data on global Internet user trends. StatMarket publishes information gathered from more than 50 million Internet users a day to more than 125,000 sites worldwide using WebSideStory's HitBox Enterprise and other HitBox e-business intelligence services. Global usage share is the percentage of daily Internet users worldwide that are using a particular operating system. Windows XP was launched Oct. 25, 2001.