Windows XP now has more than a third of the online market

"As of May 7, 2003, Windows XP had a global Web usage share of nearly 35 percent, about 10 percentage points higher than the next most popular version, Windows® 98, according to WebSideStory's HitBox StatMarket (www.StatMarket.com), a leading source of data on global Internet user trends. Global usage share is the percentage of Internet visitors who are using a particular operating system." (Stat of the week) XP was launched in October 2001. StatMarket says Windows 98 got to a third of the market in a third of the time, and still has about 25% of the Web-user base.