Visitors check out iPads at an Apple store in Madrid, May 28, 2010. (Reuters/Susana Vera)

From ComputerWorld | According to data from web metrics firm Net Applications, the iPad’s online usage share more than doubled in May, and spiked significantly over the weekend after Apple launched the tablet in Europe, Japan and elsewhere.

Net Applications announced Tuesday that the iPad’s share was 0.09% in May, about two-and-a-half times that of April. In other words, of every 10,000 devices connecting to the Internet, 9 were iPads. By comparison, Windows XP powered 6,253 of every 10,000 systems on the Web last month.

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