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		_cbb1 on March 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google propels Linux to the top Linux is easily the most used OS for servers. Linux has been at the top for awhile, just because the consumer doesn't run the OS natively doesn't mean that they are not using Linux machine. I disagree that google "propelled" linux to the top.

cgh on March 25, 2014 [–]

No, Windows is if you count individual deployments. Any big enterprise runs countless Windows file and print servers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system... (look at the second, smaller table)

_cbb1 on March 25, 2014 | [–]

Accordingly W3 Tech...http://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/operating_system/al...

cgh on April 1, 2014 | | [–]

That's only web servers.

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