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The winbeta article you've linked to is a repost of this article: http://microsoft-news.com/windows-8-overtake-android-web-pre...

This completely ignores mobile android use! It's basically comparing desktop Android (Tablets) with Windows 8.

StatCounter doesn't publish web traffic os data across mobile and desktop, but if you look at overall mobile vs. desktop, it's 86.7% vs. 13.3% [1]

If you look at the data for the start of the graph:

Android has 31% of mobile [2] (0.133 * .31 = 0.041, or 4% of the overall mobile+desktop)

Android also has 0.64% of desktop [3] (0.867 * 0.0064 = 0.0055, or 0.5% of the overall)

So Android has 4.5% of Mobile + Desktop

While Win8 has 0.35% of desktop [3] (0.867 * 0.0035 = 0.003, or 0.35% overall)

so it's 4.5% for Android vs. 0.35% for Win8

For the end of the period in the graph, Win8 has risen to 0.71% or 0.61% overall (Android will have stayed the same at 4.5%).

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_vs_desktop-ww-daily-201210...

[2] http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-daily-20121021-20121...

[3] http://gs.statcounter.com/chart.php?bar=1&statType_hidde...




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