Hodejo1 writes "Frequently, we get wind of big announcements that are either backed up by a dubiously small data set or not backed up at all. Big Champagne, PC Pitstop and Digital Music News joined forces to analyze 1,661,688 PCs to track 152 unique P2P clients quarterly from September 2006 to September 2007. Topping the list by a healthy margin is LimeWire. "In September of 2007 LimeWire was found on 17.8% of all the PCs polled that month (also referred to as the attachment rate). With regards to market share — counting only those users with at least one P2P application on their systems — LimeWire held a 36.4% share, meaning one out of three P2P users has LimeWire on their system. These numbers are up slightly from September 2006 when LimeWire held a market share of 34.1%". Meanwhile, uTorrent has made huge gains during this period soaring into second place and posing a genuine challenge to LimeWire. The article includes a chart that tracks the top thirteen applications over each of the four quarters, so you get to see whose fortunes are rising (uTorrent) and whose are falling (Azureus). Six of the thirteen are BitTorrent clients. The methodology at the end of the article also makes an interesting read."
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