The full extent of the flop that was the Vista operating
system has been revealed thanks to new real-world PC usage data.
Exo.performance.network is a community-based monitoring
tool that receives real-time data from about 10,000 PCs throughout the world,
25 percent of which are situated in larger business environments. The data is anonymised then aggregated to produce a wide
range of reports on what PC owners actually use, providing an ongoing
real-world snapshot of the state of Windows.
It shows that two years after Vista's release not even 30
percent of PCs actually run it. And those that do are almost exclusively the
Home Premium version. This means that Vista is employed mainly by home users
who likely got Vista preinstalled on a new PC and not by business users.
The data also shows that measurements of browser adoption
by firms such as Net Applications are not giving a good picture of public
Internet use. Because they don't measure internal browser traffic on company
intranets. More than 85 per cent of these run Internet Explorer although
Firefox is making some in roads.
Office 2007 is the dominant productivity suite for
enterprise Windows users although OpenOffice.org is making inroads appearing on
13 percent of Windows PCs sampled by the exo.performance.network.
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