On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:12:14 pm Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Prof. Harley Flanders wrote:
As to O/S, the following statistics should interest everyone:
OS Platform StatisticsWindows XP is the most popular operating system. The Windows family counts for almost 90%:
2010 Win7 Vista Win2003 WinXP W2000 Linux Mac June 19.8% 11.7% 1.3% 54.6% 0.4% 4.8% 6.8% May 18.9% 12.4% 1.3% 55.3% 0.4% 4.5% 6.7% April 16.7% 13.2% 1.3% 56.1% 0.5% 4.5% 7.1% March 14.7% 13.7% 1.4% 57.8% 0.5% 4.5% 6.9% February 13.0% 14.4% 1.4% 58.4% 0.6% 4.6% 7.1% January 11.3% 15.4% 1.4% 59.4% 0.6% 4.6% 6.8%
Except that browsers are not exactly the same thing as programming languages.
Exactly.
I work for a Linux consulting company. Apart from the guy who insists on using Lynx as his browser, everyone I know sets their browser user-agent to pretend to be Internet Explorer on Windows XP. I suspect we're probably counted as part of the 54.6%, and I'm pretty sure we aren't the only ones.
But be that as it may, what's important is not the percentage of OS users all up, but the percentage of OS users that are interested in a Pascal compiler.
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Hodges, Robert CTR USAF AFMC 520 SMXS/MXDEC wrote:
Walk outside into the real world (which you eventually will, like it or not), however, and UNIX/MacOS/Linux systems virtually disappear.
Only 1 out of 10 people want/need to use it.
If you think that 1 in 10 is so vanishingly small that it doesn't matter, that it isn't part of the "real world", I invite you to consider 1 in 10 of the people you know disappearing without trace.
Or consider that Pizarro destroyed the Inca Empire with an army less than 0.00125% their size (192 men against 16 million); or that the population of the USA is less than 5% of that of the world. That's the real world.