Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:50:52 -0900 From: "Peter A. Giessel" <pgiessel@mac.com> To: Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The BBC survey.... Message-ID: <45BA316C.3070903@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20070126094241.GA77116@glitch.carpetsmoker.net> References: <1169791677.29783.12.camel@localhost> <20070126094241.GA77116@glitch.carpetsmoker.net>
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On 2007/01/26 0:42, Martin Tournoij seems to have typed: > It's probably more than 90%, the last study I saw (~2 years ago) said > that 98% of the users used windows. That survey is clearly wrong. With Apple pulling 4-5% of the (new) market, and the average time between replacements being higher with MacOS over Windows, the absolute largest percentage that use Windows would be 96%. Any number higher than that is clearly wrong. That assumes everybody who doesn't buy a Mac runs Windows. So that would be 0.0% market share for every variant of Linux and every variant of BSD. Assume a higher than 0.0% market share for the open source OS's and the maximum value for windows further declines. My gut feeling is that the 90% number is about right, but I would believe anything from 85%-94%. Any higher than 94% can't be right. There are obviously more than zero BSD and Linux users. :)
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