The Internet is full of presumptions: some of them are more optimists than the others. On one hand, the Gartner consulting group assures that GNU/Linux could end the year being used by 7.5% of the computers around the World.

Other companies as Hewlett-Packard aren’t as optimists as Gartner Group, however they think that it is really possible that GNU/Linux will surpasses Mac computer percentage.

Meanwhile, May has begun and the statistics show that there has not been any important movements on. Therefore, during the last month the Linux usage went down from 2% to 1.89% as W3Counter says.

So this is the current situation: Windows Vista is the only one that went up during April. The Ubuntu 8.04 releasement had no effects (it’s important to remember that Ubuntu 7.10 really impacted the stats).

If we talk about net browsers, Firefox is still improving its position and each month goes up. Of course Internet Explorer 7 goes up as well, but that’s because people come from the old Explorer version.

What will happen when the year ends?. We would like to believe that linux could rise to 7.5%, but it doesn’t seem to be possible. Anyway, a global view shows that GNU/Linux and Firefox are there, competing seriously.