desktop os market shareas of may operating system market share may courtesy of net applications a marketing company which obtains its data from the alexa toolbar or related products because people who install these products on their computers are not always aware that the product reports web browsing habits back to the marketers at alexa some security software considers the alexa toolbar spyware and removes it both the automated removal as spyware and the self selecting nature of those who install software that reports on personal web browsing habits raises questions as to whether the resulting data represents a unbiased statistical sample of internet users windows mac linux sunos other these tables compare general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently available operating systems due to the large number and variety of available linux distributions they are all grouped under a single entry see comparison of linux distributions for a detailed comparison there are also a variety of bsd operating systems covered in comparison of bsd operating systems for information on views of each operating system see operating system advocacy