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Skriven 2007-10-06 15:13:54 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Stats according to Dvorak
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In Dvorak's column in the Nov 6 2007 PC Magazine are some possibly interesting
statistics:

"Never-Ending Stats Dept.: A site called WBCounter (www .w3counter.com) tallied
33 million visits at over 5,OOO Web sites
to develop some interesting stats people should know. The most interesting by
far is that very few people have jumped on the Windows Vista bandwagon. (Duh!)
The market share for operating systems is still led by Windows XP, at 83.5
perªcent, followed by Windows 2000, with 3.9 percent. The Mac OS comes in
third, with 3.7 percent, followed by Vista, with 3.5 percent. Linux as a
desktop OS is still moribund, at 1.3 perªcent, the same as the laggards such as
Windows 98.

Two other things in the survey worth noting: First, IE 6/7 has 66.2 percent of
the market. Remarkable when you consider that, at one time, Microsoft had
nearly 100 percent. And Opera is very low at 0.6 percent. This doesn't sound
right, and it tells me that many of the smarter users take advantage of the
Opera option of pretending to be IE. This is so downloads and other functions
go smoothly at sites that refuse to accommodate non-Microsoft browsers. Opera
should have 2 to 5 percent marªket share, if not more. All those estimates
would further reduce the IE numbers. Most of the rest goes to Mozilla/Firefox.

In addition to browsers, the survey covªered screen size. l,024-by-768 is the
winner, at 49.5 percent. But only 8.3 percent of the users run a smaller
(800-by-600) size. All the rest--over 42 percent--are bigger! So people should
get off the old 64O-by-48O bandwagon for Web sites."

The Vista stats fit in with my experience... I was chatting with the owner of a
local 'white box' PC shop (Vancouver has more of these per square mile than any
other place I've been in)... I asked him to guesstimate what percentage of his
customers were wanting Vista on their systems.... he paused for a moment,
started to say "None of them" them corrected himself and guessed 2%... i.e.
there have been a couple, but hardly any.

Of course the market for locally custom-built PCs is not representative of PC
users as a whole, who to a large extent use whatever comes on their system. But
interesting, none the less-- at least to me!

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