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What's Your Main Operating System? [Reader Poll]

Source: Lifehacker

Nov 04, 2009

Summary

Windows 7 has only been out for about two weeks now, but statistics web site StatCounter reports that Windows 7's OS market share reached roughly three percent by the end of October. So what operating system are you using?

We already know that a good 70 percent of Lifehacker readers using Windows have likely already upgraded to Windows 7 (or so you said before its launch), so now we're just checking back in to to see how our crowd of early adopters match up to the entire OS ecosystem in general. (Hell, in May, 35 percent of our Windows users were already using Windows 7 as their primary OS.) I'm using the same OS splits StatCounter uses (XP, Vista, Win7, OS X, and Linux), since presumably it's the most accurate separations in terms of significant popularity. So:

What's Your Main Operating System?(answers)

Give us the details for why you're using your operating system of choice in the comments.

Top 5 Operating Systems from W42 to W44 [StatCounter via Mashable]