While I can&#x27;t support this with figures, which I&#x27;d love to see by the way, my experience working as a consultant at a number of companies, from startups to big media conglomerates in Europe, is that for web, there&#x27;s definitely a preference for macs, however slight.<p>It&#x27;s generally older, more conservative or more back-end focused shops that are on Windows (.NET, Umbraco), but even those often move to macs or want to. Viacom, for example, uses Rails for it&#x27;s European sites and all developers in the office use macs.<p>Smaller startups tend to have mac-users for front-end development and a mix of windows&#x2F;linux&#x2F;mac for back-end guys.<p>And of course my experience here on HN gives me the impression that most front-end stuff is mac-centric.<p>All that said, the big qualifiers are wealth and web. I know quite a few web guys who use windows because they can&#x27;t afford a mac, and I know many developers who use windows or linux because they don&#x27;t do front-end web development. But in my world (The Netherlands) the vast majority of web developers use macs, to the point that it&#x27;s kind of a &#x27;thing&#x27; to see a web developer use anything else.