🆚 Unix vs. Windows
- 📈 Windows is much more popular than Unix.
- 🌎 Windows is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Unix is more popular in Germany and Cameroon.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Operating system
Operating system
About
Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems.
Windows is a family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments.
In its Windows Server editions, it combines web hosting through IIS with support for 
ASP.NET, application pools and SSL management, alongside Active Directory for centralized identity, Hyper-V virtualization, PowerShell automation, and hybrid cloud integration with Azure.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌
Windows Server 2025
Standard edition$1,176
Datacenter edition$6,771
Categories
Operating Systems › Rank #6
Operating Systems › Rank #2
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Windows operating system is 9 times more popular than Unix.
Total websites
Market share
Operating Systems
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Windows is more popular in the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, while Unix is more popular in Germany and Cameroon.
United States
China
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Turkey
India
Netherlands
Canada
Brazil
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Afghanistan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Denmark in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Vietnam in the Operating Systems category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Operating Systems category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Windows is more popular than Unix in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Internet Services
Travel
Software/Hardware
Public Information
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Linux
Ubuntu
Debian🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,512,920 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.