Comments on: Dvorak Poll: What OS & Version Are You Running?

By: cgp

cgp — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:03:45 +0000

Yeah OSX stats three times nominal stated values.
( I believe this poll)
This is just another example of current level of
truthful statements by players in the world’s
marketplace.

There needs to be a statistical quality number (like chi)
I’d call it ‘bs’. How would it be calculated?

By: Alfred1

Alfred1 — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:18:32 +0000

U are all correct…in a parallel universe, where the denizens of Microsoft hell are released, and walk the earth…they will be seeking, not brains…but John C Dvorak…it was he who, like the proverbial pied piper, led the masses out of cpm, with its tight machine language and program portability, to msdos…even though he confessed, it was inferior in many respects…

The walking dead, suffering in dos hell, now windows vers. 666….coming to get you John C…no doubt pushing Curry out of the way…

By: Cephus

Cephus — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:27:09 +0000

Vista is massively bloated. I don’t know how much space it takes up right out of the box, I never looked before I started installing software, but just my Windows directory right now is about 20 gigs, that doesn’t include anything else like Explorer, other directories Vista uses, etc. That’s 20 gigs for the OS ALONE!

I might not complain if it worked well, it just doesn’t.

By: brendal

brendal — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:24:01 +0000

Well, “running” Vista is relative, isn’t it?

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:25:50 +0000

I run Widows XP on my computer and dual boot WIndows XP/Ubuntu on my netbook. I am never going to buy a PC again. Next computer will be a Mac. I am fed up with every version of Windows having more and more bloat.

By: Alfred1

Alfred1 — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:58:51 +0000

If it weren’t for John C Dvorak…he convinced us all to switch…CP/M would rule…I miss my Kaypro.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:19:36 +0000

#31 62% of computers are XP

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10

By: David

David — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:15:43 +0000

I’m a bit surprised at the number of XP users compared to Vista or Win7. I use XP myself, but only because the machine is older and doesn’t run Vista too well. Clearly there are a disproportionate number of Mac users here, but if the Windows stats reflect the general population, it doesn’t say much for Microsoft.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:47:45 +0000

#27

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/chartfx62/temp/CFT0519_1146051624F.png

By: Cephus

Cephus — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:45:05 +0000

I am running Vista, only because it came with the new computers and personally, I think it’s a piece of shit. I’d much rather be running XP SP2 as I was previously, it’s not perfect but at least it’s more stable and user friendly than Vista is.

Typically, I wouldn’t put a Microsoft operating system on my machine before it hits SP2, that’s usually about the time it actually becomes usable and the biggest bugs have been squashed. Win7 might get on my machine sometime around 2011, maybe.

By: bb

bb — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:16:46 +0000

Triple boot (Vista/Win7-32b/Win7-64b) on my main PC, mix of XPs (Home/Pro/Media) on 5 others, and FreeNAS on the home server. And there are only two of us living in the house. This would be incredible to me 30 years ago. (First PC: Northstar Horizon running CP/M as seen above!)

What’s it going to be in another 30 years?

OBTW, the real figures are here: http://tinyurl.com/5vchbb

By: Bob West

Bob West — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:40:50 +0000

Vista on my main PC, Win7 32bit / 64bit and Linux on my second PC. Will upgrade to Win7 64bit upon release.

By: davefretty

davefretty — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:36:14 +0000

I use Linux myself and just had to do the survey. Looks like I am not the only one as nearly 10% of the people who answered run Linux. Probably more close to 2-3% if you check the numbers with analytics. People who do these surveys are a self selecting group.

By: honkytonkwillie

honkytonkwillie — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:54:45 +0000

2 linux boxes, 1 linux server, 1 linux/XP dual boot laptop for me. 2 Macbook something or others for the wife, Vista for my son and another OSX for my daughter. It’s difficult to quantify the other random laptops and boxes that haven’t been booted in over a year, but they’re all XP except for a single WinMe that had some expensive add-on hardware.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:26:44 +0000

Interesting that so many are on Mac OS X.

Kinda makes JD’s negatories sound a tad hollow.

Sure, the total windows-like population is bigger, but imagine what this would have been five years ago.