The latest data revealed by the figures from Statcounter that only 0.
79 percent of the worlds population use Ubuntu operating system, which is way behind from Windows 7 that target 19.
43 percent of the global users.
Mac OS, Windows Vista and Windows XP have 5.
66 percent, 17.
68 percent and 55.
38 percent respectively.
When asked why Linux is not a competitor of Windows 7, Paul Holt, who is a corporate sales director at Ubuntu-backer Canonical in London, said that this is because Linux appeal to cloud generation who prefer to access applications via browser that is what makes it different from any other operating system in the world.
The president of the Free Software Foundation Europe agrees to Holt and said, "I am disheartened to hear [Canonical is] not competing with Microsoft in the desktop space".
"The majority of adoption of Linux on the desktop is essentially people who previously had copies of pirated OSes, or had other ways of getting their OS onto their desktop.
We're not necessarily competing with people who might be using Windows 7," Paul Holt expressed at the Westminster eForum on open-source software in business and government.
"In my day-to-day role, am I typically [dealing] head-on with people wanting to migrate away from Microsoft environments? Yes-ish.
" Holt also said that the Web 2.
0 companies have shown great interest in Linux and the employees of these companies don't care for operating system at all.
He shared his finding at the meet and said that in UK, public sector might have not preferred Linux but on the other hand desktop Linux has been a great journey for some of the companies who market open source technology.
Proprietary companies have invested a lot in countries like UK where there are bigger chances of making money.
Holt is of opinion that it is really tough to compete with Microsoft for Ubuntu as Microsoft is really a big company which has got money to promote their products, which are no doubt good but still he prefers to use Linux as it adds value to future technology.