[CTS] Re: Most used OS
- From: "Eric C. Vogel" <ECVogel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:36:04 -0500
SP2 will add some more secuirty. Longhorn will not be out till 2005, 2006
but we all know how dates can change.
Thank you,
Eric Vogel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal Brown" <hbrown@xxxxxxxx>
To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:08 PM
Subject: [CTS] Re: Most used OS
> I don't see this at all. People love XP - hate activation. Win 98 is
just
> too insecure for business use anymore. XP has been out for about 18
months?
> or so. Except for activation, I don't see anything wrong with it. Stable
> as a rock, runs nearly any Windows app, PNP actually works, and so on.
It's
> like W2K on steroids. I've put in a lot of Dell boxes, and I'm getting
> ready to put in 35 more real soon now. No way could I recommend anything
> but XP at this point in time. 2K is on its way out, MS will release the
> next ver in probably a year, year and a half or so.
>
> Still, activation sucks. But unless you stay with 98 forever, and that is
> not going to happen; that would be like staying with Win 3.1, you move on
> and use it or quit.
>
> I'm getting ready to try a relatively new Linux distro, Xandros. It is
> supposed to run MS office, and even IE, and I want to see how it does.
> People want MS apps, period, and I don't blame them.
>
> When people think computers they think Windows, so even if this works
well,
> I don't believe it will rattle MS much.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Russ Blakeman duly noted:
> >I think it's a little off, maybe biased too. I know for a fact that Linux
is
> >more popular than 1% (maybe 5 at least, probably closer to 10 in reality)
> >and I doubt that 42% is reality for XP - I work in the field and see
> >personal, small business and corporate machines all the time and maybe
25%
> >are XP, possibly 33% - due to the newness and the fact that machines are
a
> >lot cheaper now and include XP. 2000 is likely the next bhind that and
then
> >98/98se.
> >
> >Macintosh is a good 30 to 40% of the market so you know it's more than
3% -
> >and even if people goofed on MacOS X and put Linux or Unix that would
make
> >the other or Limux categories even fatter.
> >
> >I wonder what other means - I know people that run Sun, RS6000 (AIX),
AS/400
> >(OS400) and many others - but not generally for home use though. No one
> >mentioned DOS but I know that there is as much of a liking and
renaissance
> >back to DOS as there is to Linux...partly due to nostalgia and partly due
to
> >a liking or even a dislike for the new MS ways of doing things.
> >
> >Also Windows NT on servers is still the #1 I see in the field, 2k being
next
> >and a few are trying Server 2003 but cost will be the factor that gets
them
> >to stay with either NT or 2k server platforms, or even switch to
somehting
> >like Apache or other linux server OS's
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hal
> >> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 6:38 AM
> >> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [CTS] Most used OS
> >>
> >>
> >> I got this from the Lang List this morning. There was some
conversation
> >> last week (I think) about the most used OS. Actually this comes from
> >> Google and is free to distribute as long as Google is credited.
> >>
> >> Operating Systems Used to Access Google
> >> ~~~~~~ Oct/Nov, 2003 ~~~~~~
> >> Windows XP 42%
> >> Windows 98 27%
> >> Windows 2000 19%
> >> Windows NT 3%
> >> Macintosh 3%
> >> Windows 95 1%
> >> Linux 1%
> >> Other 4%
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Hal Brown
> >> http://adwt.com email: hal@xxxxxxxx
> >>
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