Most Popular Operating Systems 1999 - 2022 

Windows XP, the legend!

This was interesting - however, not sure mixing mobile OS and desktop OS gives a super clear comparison. Embedded System OS inclusion would push Linux pretty high up the list as well - a lot of commercial electronics use Linux as the basis of their products (fridge, ovens, hot tubs, thermostats, etc, etc)

win xp touching 80% is just amazing

I have a suggestion to the next video or for any near future. The most popular Linux distributions used since 90s until this year. Thanks you 💕

Everyone talks about how Win XP and 7 are legends but no one mentions Android's supreme reign which is pretty amazing

Now I'm nostalgic for the Windows XP days

Ahhh I still remember many of the Windows XP wallpapers. They became different eras of my childhood. Vortec space was my fav 💙 so many memories!!

I was surprised how long Windows 95 stayed relevant as extended support ended in December 2001

So nice to see that channel back and very active. It's interesting to see these graph. 👍

WinXP and 7, legends.

Interesting to see how Linux and MacOS as desktop OS's never take off but never go away. That's good consistency actually.

Reminds me of a book about coding in Java that I own called "Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design", the book is from 1998 and it's so old that there's a part in the book where it says "Examples of popular operating systems include Windows 95 and Unix"

XP with 81%? That is wild!

After support for Win 10 ends, I'm moving on to Linux. Fortunately, it has matured more than enough. Plenty of great options now.

It's sad to see mobile OS overtake the share. Fewer people exploit the power of desktop OS.

There's something sad about Linux, while being one of the most influential and useful OS's of all time (cause of servers, Android, github to some extent) never breaking 5% marketshare.

The evolution of Windows is just gradually reducing the shading and color in their logo

Guys, THIS is the year of Linux Desktop!

I started on Windows 3.11 over MS-DOS, Windows 95 was a paradigm shift, Window 98 was where I had the most fun with games mainly because it was where I got my first graphics accelerator card, a Voodoo 3 PC 16MB, the 3dFX Glide API elevated the games to another dimension. I've been using Linux since 2001 in dual boot, but of all the systems, the one I missed the most was without a doubt OS/2, mainly from eComStation. The most stable system I've ever known.

Don't you love how these operating systems stats never include GNU/Linux on servers, but include mobile phone operating systems?

My father used Windows NT until 2013. In the meantime I installed XP for him, but no chance, he wanted NT.

Will be interesting to see whether the Steam Deck will have a significant impact on Linux marketshare in the future. Maybe other manufacturers will also try Linux as default OS?

So glad to see you back!

I think most of us miss xp.

I know it's an old discution but, I was one of the few who loved Windows Vista. It was beautiful and pretty stable for me. I never understood all the hate towards it. When I upgraded to 7, I didn't notice any huge improvement. I got the feeling it was just a tweaked Vista.

Win 95, Win XP and Win 7 are the legends

Win 11 at 5% brings a smile to my face. They took so many steps backward with that OS

I love your channel, am a long time fan and subscriber. Please continue the good work.

September 2003 - July 2011 What a run

Interesting to see how popular Win XP was - and whilst it was at a time when there weren't very many alternatives, it was really only killed when MS stopped supporting it in favour of Win 7/8. IIRC, MS even extended the period of service time for XP by an extra five years, because it was so popular and they didn't get a better decent version out in time... Of course, what I would like to see is OS data for pre-1999, because there were a lot fewer devices, and a lot had proprietary OS built in... I mean, that was a time when you had to state whether software for PC was IBM-compatible... before the standardisation of Windows 95...

This has got to be on of my favorite videos. btw i personally loved Windows 7. It was so classic. Love your videos, Data Is Beautiful!!!

I'm pretty sure Linux outdoes all of these. Considering android is Linux based and majority of servers run on Linux.

Looking at the data sources and that it is adjusted by user-agents, a more correct title would be "Most Popular Consumer/End User Operating Systems 1999 - 2022" because OS used on servers are more or less ignored because a server normally don't make outbound browser connections and therefor has no user-agent to measure. This explains why Linux, even as it is the most used server OS, never makes it over 5%.

Thank you for complying my request :) Edit: I appreciate you for inserting my favourite music for this video!

missed these videos ahah love the dramatic music so much

Windows 7 is the best Windows I have ever used. It was futuristic and didn't compromise its user interface.

XP is still the best OS; I had so many fond memories of XP, as well 98 on my first computer. Time flies too fast :(

You should probably have an extra category called Windows that shows all Windows PC users as one block.

Impressive how proprietary operating systems like MacOS and iOS command such large shares (by proprietary I mean they operate on only a single hardware platform offered by a single company). My favorite version of Windows was Win2000. It's interesting to see how short-lived it was. Microsoft quickly transitioned to WinXP because they wanted to push their activation model (Windows 2000 is basically the same as WinXP but without the goofy interface and it didn't require activation).

I really missed your videos :') thank you so much for coming back!!!

Watching this I'm sure if MS never released Vista, XP would've hit %90.

A hobby OS version would be interesting to see. Linux, BSD, and independently coded OSes.

Love the way the music did not change when this video was sped up to 2X on youTube.

Windows XP and paint was my childhood xD

Wow, Win 11 does have some growth, MS learned something but the TPM requirement and many users are very reluctant to upgrade. I was about to but reinstalling old softwares is not easy to do so.

My OS Bio for PCs, starting 89: MS DOS > Win 3.11 > Win 95 > Win 98 > Win 2000 > Win 98 SE > Win XP > Win Vista > Win XP > Win 7 > Win 8.1 > Win 7 > Win 10.

Great video! It would be interesting to see the other OS, not just Win, split into versions also.

Love those videos, and this song. Thanks

Windows XP and Windows 7 were the best Windows we ever had. Too bad we will never get an OS like these ever again.

HE IS BACK OMG

Excellent work 🎉

0:22 I love how windows xp didn't show up until October 2001 because that's the month when it got released worldwide

Dobra robota.

Love how windows 7 is still in the 6th after all these years

Windows is the most popular desktop OS because they monopolized the computer operating system space and made deals with virtually every computer manufacturer for their products to come factory installed. If more people were even half aware of Windows alternatives it’s market share would be much more balanced.

I'd like to see sources of this visual data. I see a lot inaccuracies here.

Damn I miss XP

Linux > All other OSs This comes from someone who only uses windows and helps the family with the Family Mac computer. Also, I'm in the IT career field so I use Linux a lot.

Windows is so popular that it's various versions are broken into different charts. If we are gonna mix mobile and desktop OSes, then I think atleast we to separate out the major releases. But I understand that getting that data is hard.

Windows XP is a legend. I still have a notebook with Windows XP and I enjoy using it.

windows 98 was a solid OS, surprised it did not do as well as i was expecting

You should do one on just Linux distros (not counting Android or ChromeOS)

Interesting!! How come I don't see any questions on the song that is used! I love the space ARP's that are used. What's the name of the song?

Beautiful video, pls tell us what softwares are used to make this video.

Technically speaking Android is a Linux OS but I understand why you separated the two.

I’m surprised by the difference between MacOS and Windows. I thought it was WAY closer.

Part of the issue on getting accurate Linux server and workstation data is that servers and workstations shipped for Linux use is often shipped simply with no OS preinstalled, because Linux platforms are typically customized by IT staff per user, or by the user themselves.

Are server installations included? Why is Win split into its versions but others not?

I remember having some of my best experiences on a system build using XP Pro, that machine seemed very stable and responsive on XP.

winxp will be always the top1 in our hearts

I was a big OS/2 fan. I still have a VM with OS/2 4.5 and another with Windoze XP. I run Fedora Linux on my laptop and Win 11 on my desktop machine.

What is the program you use to build such presentation?

I thought Linux was much more present : a lot of servers runs on Linux actually, isn't it ?

I was surprised there wasn't more of a spike in ChromeOS from 2020 onwards.

THE LEGEND CAME BACK

I feel like you (purposedly or not) merged iOS with iPad OS despite the official split on september 2019, right? If so, are watchOS & tvOS included as well?

GNU/Linux operative system most popular in servers, mobiles & Supercomputers.

Its wierd that most os such as android and linux has been through a lot of versions but windows keep making those versions separate

So few appreciated the beautiful Win NT! (Btw, I still use Win 7 [offline] and still have a working Vista machine that's never given me a lick of trouble. Knock wood.)

Nice, Win 11 is only 5% huh Anyway here's a suggestion, you could've reduced the size of logos since they were clipping which doesn't look good

I don't think you can compare OSs for tablets and phones to those for desktops and servers. I think there should be a separate video for OSs for tablets and phones

Personally, my fondest memories are from Windows 98. However, Windows XP is the G.O.A.T.

This gives you a simple and intuitive interface

I think great that the video shows all windows versions but it not heappens with other OS (like Androif Kit-kat vs Android Oreo). In this way, MS Operating Systems will always appears fragmented and all the others wull be only one thing

It’s impressive how mobile operating systems come out of nowhere starting in 2007!

"Numbers are showing market share by specific OS, measured by amount of units shipped worldwide". Yes, that explains why there are almost no servers mentioned (they would bring up the Linux share to roughly 90%) and Windows 11 despite being still some sort of beta has such a high share. Almost every Win 11 shipped machine in companys gets downgraded to Win10 for reliability or Upgraded to Linux to work productive. And mobile devices are mixed with normal devices, I think it would make sense to divide mobile and productive devices apart. Shooting portrait films with mobile Devices for Ticktock and doing productive work with normal landscape Monitors are to very different usecases. If Adobe would make their software available for Linux, Apple devices would suffer and get around 3% market share since Apple really tries to get rid of their loyal customers, the only reason to stick to Apple is Adobe. Windows 11 shoved many people to Linux Mint, in combination with e.g. Softmaker Office (only paid once) and Nextcloud this is an alternative since more than 4 years which actually works.

i am a part of the stubborn that still has windows 7 on one of my machines(my desktop is on 11, my MS surface is on windows 10 and my laptop hasn't gotten an upgrade from windows 7 yet despite still being used a month ago).

Start from win95 until today, the best os experience i ever had is the time with XP

Linux users: "Come on, Linux! Be number one!" Google: [makes Linux number one] Linux users: *_"Not like thaaaaat!!"_*

There is a disproportion in this graphic. For example, Android or Mac OS are listed as one OS across all versions versus Windows, which is listed with each version separately. This is just a statistic of desktop distributions. However, Linux OS is on all kinds of devices like routers, modems, NAS... and desktop distributions are only a small part. If all devices were counted completely, I think Linux OS would be the most used OS, ignoring the fact that Android is based on the Linux OS kernel... (I say this as a Windows OS user.)

Here it comes!!

0:22 your childhood has joined the game

Imagine if this included virtual machines or downloads on Raspberry Pis and the like. Linux would have knocked all of them out of the water.

Id love to give a kiss to Win7

since the PCs sold come with windows pre-installed, have you removed the PCs with linux from the windows data? based on what do you have data linux ?

I don’t think phone operating systems should have been included as they don’t compete on the same market

Android is based on linux so its technically linux

Great video! How come you decided not to include Windows 8.1? Or did you include that in Windows 8? :)

quali sono le percentuali sui server? questi sono per lo più OS sui client, ma sui server credo che linux sia 99%

You can definitely see windows cycle of every other OS flopped. Me, Vista (which I'd actually forgotten about), and 8, all of which were superceded by their successor before they beat their precursor. Now we'll see if 11 suffers a similar fate. I won't upgrade until I can turn off frequent programs without leaving a large empty ugly gap for it in my start menu.