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I apologize for the confusion. You are correct that StatCounter Global Stats only goes back to 2009. I must have misremembered.
Here are the worldwide market share figures for Windows 98 and Windows XP from NetMarketShare, which provides historical data for desktop operating systems:
Year Windows 98 Windows XP
2002 60.3% 0.6%
2003 45.3% 19.2%
2004 21.8% 50.0%
2005 8.2% 63.9%
2006 3.4% 76.1%
2007 1.6% 74.7%
The fact that ChatGPT says this is very misleading. It does not perform recall, just token generation based on the most likely continuation of the input. It will even finish your questions
For example, I used it to help me know how to adjust some things with matplotlib that I hadn't used in years. I wasn't even sure what to type into google to get good results, looking over the docs would have taken longer than the time I spent with ChatGPT.
Like how we all learned how to search with Google early on, the same thing is going to happen with LLMs. They are certainly better at handling the questions and clarification for refinement, something we often do with each other. When they start responding with questions for clarification, rather than just spitting out whatever, that will be a nice step forward.
At this point, your methodology is looking quite sus
Are ready to accept that ChatGPT is reliably lying to you? The longer your conversation with it goes on, the worse it gets