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"It may be a brave opinion but I predict that Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista are going to be the two operating systems that will take over the largest chunk of the desktop OS market during the next couple of ...

"It may be a brave opinion but I predict that Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista are going to be the two operating systems that will take over the largest chunk of the desktop OS market during the next couple of ...

A few days ago, Net Applications published OS market share figures which showed that the market share of the Mac OS remained largely flat over the past year.

Handset OS market shares shifting November 4 2008 - 1:17 pm EDT The 'OS wars,' as some would have it, are alive and well - at least in the data on the various contenders' shifting market share.

Apple continues to successfully take over client operating system market share from Microsoft, at least if we believe the latest survey data released by Net Applications.

Recently we've check Distrowatch for the list of popular Linux Distribution in the world. Ubuntu still on rank #1 today.

And Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth believes that Ubuntu is ready to compete with Windows and Mac OS X and he expects to see the open source Linux distribution ship on millions of devices in the coming year.

As summer draws to a close, the activity has started to heat up on the Linux blogs. Among the topics at hand this week: The Democratic National Convention's lack of Linux support for its video feed, an estimate that Linux might own 20 percent of the OS market and a list of the best Linux-based devices out there.

LinuxInsider: "As summer draws to a close, the activity has started to heat up on the Linux blogs. Among the topics at hand this week: The Democratic National Convention's lack of Linux support for its video feed, an estimate that Linux might own 20 percent of the OS market and a list of the best Linux-based devices out there."

Never before has Apple had such a fine opportunity to grab considerable market share from Microsoft.

It is still Microsoft that dominates the OS market and most are unfamiliar with Linux. Rarely can you see someone with a Linux laptop on a public transport and if ever you found one most likely people...