Comments on: FeedBurner Stats: Operating Systems

By: Jon Lloyd

Jon Lloyd — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:04:34 +0000

Just think what 81% of the world is missing out on. Love your blog Tony, big fan!

By: Robert Pooley

Robert Pooley — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:34:32 +0000

Well I am making the jump as we speak… ordered the brand new, just released Imac yesterday. I wonder if that will trigger a percentage jump soon?

By: Adam Gregory

Adam Gregory — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:01:41 +0000

I HATE Vista!!!
My wife has it on her new laptop and I am getting ready to reformat it back to XP. Not only is the whole interface horrid to use they did absolutely nothing that i can see from a user stand point to improve on XP.

I will never be a Mac person either. The world runs on Microsoft for the most part so why try to fight it.(though for some business and artistic applications MAC rocks).

Go FireFox! Best Web Browser Out there!!!

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:25:22 +0000

My parents just bought a new HP with Vista. They just aren’t as technically sound as most of the people out there. Well, my husband and myself have been over there quite a bit helping them with that horrid piece of equipment. I don’t want Vista, I do not like what I have seen of it.

By: David Russell

David Russell — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:59:57 +0000

That is actually a strong number for the OSX platform. Your content obviously appeals to more creative and intellectual types. That’s also why Firefox usage is high amongst your readers.

I would expect that Microsoft had hoped for better with Vista. I think they shot themselves in the foot on a number of campaigns, including overpricing (something Apple is far too fond of.)

From what I understand, Vista is the stepping stone to the Windows OS that people might really dig. They’ll be locking up the kernel in the next version and that will really help secure the end user’s experience. I guess we’ll see if that stands up or not.

I had not heard that 6% stat yet. Yet I’m not surprised by it when I count up the number of friends and family that have Vista. I stop counting at 1—and that was a new purchase, not an upgrade.

By: Jason Runyan

Jason Runyan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:52:24 +0000

As a part of the 1% on the bottom and a system administrator. I have to say only the desktop world revolves around windows. UN*X is still king when it comes to running high usage, highly available enterprise and web applications

By: nathan

nathan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:07:42 +0000

‘upgrade’ to Vista?
Is Vista considered an upgrade?

By: scott hodge

scott hodge — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:52:33 +0000

Either that or maybe your blog doesn’t appeal to the Mac demographic - artistic, creative and TRULY innovative.

HA! :)

By: michael

michael — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:35:56 +0000

ahh, but the percentage of mac users is going up, while the percentages of windows users are going down.