On Thu, 10 May 2012, Yaron wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2012, Mike Miller wrote: > >> Supposedly Ubuntu will be shipping on 5% of new machines, which is >> about 18 million: > > That's firmly in the "I'll believe it when I see it" category. We've > heard such things before... That's fair, but did you believe this part of the article?: "Eight to ten million units shipped last year world-wide. "Last year Ubuntu shipped on 7.5 billion dollars (presumably USD) worth of hardware." Maybe doubling in a year is overly optimistic, but those are still good numbers for last year. Only 2.5%, I guess, but it's a pretty good start. Mike