operating system distribution among windows users

What are the world percentage distributions among windows users which
use Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT and XP?
Are there a lot of people out there which are still using Windows 95 or
98?
Just curious

 

Windows 98 is pretty popular still, XP is more popular, ME is awful. 95 is
used less than 98. 2000 is a good server. NT may be used, usually for public
computers. I don't know the percentage

 

Out of the NT classed O/S(s) that's NT, XP, and Win 2K 3, Win 2K Pro
workststion or Server Edition is the most stable. Win 2K Pro will replace
Win 98SE in the long run that everyone will go to.

Duane

 

I reckon that WIN2000 Pro is about the best they ever did.

WIN98 is well outdated, ME is well awful, and XP is teletubby ware.....

 

What is 'teletubby ware' ?

 

Bloated, unnecessary, resource hungry..that do;?....

 

Amazingly there are still a decent number of people running Windows 98.
My parents had it until last month when there 6 year old PC finally
croaked.
Not many people had Windows ME ever as far as I know, it was a short
lived OS, it should be very rare these days.
I still run into the occasional NT 4.0 system, I know some Government
servers still run it and some other businesses that just don't like to
upgrade there stuff.
Windows 2000 is still quite popular, anyone who has a computer over 3
years old probably is running it.
Same can be said for 2000 server for servers.

I would guess that XP is more prevailant then 2000 now, but not by a
large margin.

Then there is 2003 server which is now slowly taking over all the 2000
server systems. It is a fairly good upgrade, but expect to run into
permissions issues with some things when you install it. 2003 Server
does a decent job of locking things down by default.

I wonder where one could get accurate numbers on this though, I would
bet Microsoft knows.
Wow, now you got me curious.

 

This is just stats from one site's visitors, but if you scroll down
this page to OS Platform Statistics, you can get a rough feel:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

 

Well, I'll have to put XP Pro there with Win 2K Pro as that's all I have
seen lately in companies where I do programming on the MS platform. I'll
take the boot and logon process of XP pro over Win 2K pro any day of the
week.

It does seem that more and more companies are going Win 2K 3 server too.

Duane

 

Simply because they have to. The firms that supply them will either put
XP on the machines because they can't get 2K or they will make an earner
or the machines come loaded with it on already.

Up here in Cambridge I know of a lot of IT pro's programmers, sysadmins
who although they have to use Microsnot at work wouldn't give their
products house room at home!.

I've given a few old PC's away to good homes, deemed not good enough for
all the latest Microsnot bloatware, and put Linux, open office,
Thunderbird, GIMP, and Firefox all freebie programs on them and they
tick fine

Possibly as someone is making a profit from the sales?...

 

If the companies that were using Win 2K pro before went to XP pro, it
was not due to XP Pro already being on the machine. They already have a
legal version for Win 2K pro and could have easily laid that down on the
machine.

No IT department that I am aware of will take a machine out of the box
with the O/S and implement it into a work environment. They use preset
images of the work environment that the machine is to be used in and lay
that image down on the machine with the O/S and whatever else is to be
used in the environment. They also install what's needed after to
complete the installation so that the person can do his or her job.

Well that's most likely not true if they have any expertise and
professionalism about themselves. They most likely are on call and
have a remote VPN connection into the MS network using MS at home.

Lets not be going off the deep end here about Linux. I got Linux on my
network and I use it. But the reality is that Linux is just another O/S
that has many problems too.

You don't know what you're talking about as companies start positioning
themselves to use .NET solutions in the work environment.

Duane

 

Well thats as may be but a lot of firms just buy the PC with what it
comes with..

Sizeable outfits might but there are a lot of smaller ones who don't
have that luxury;!.

Yes.. suppose their must be a lot of amateurs out there doing pro jobs
eh?.. Lot of 'em work for some very cutting edge companies but hey!..

Dunnno ones I've used seem fine alright the GUI is a bit of a "could do
better" but their damm stable..and all free software

Course not.. I must be as thick as they come Don't suppose you deal
with or see that many small firms that make up a very large portion of
PC and computing users????


cheers

--
Tony Sayer

Bancom Communications U.K. Tel+44 1223 566577 Fax+44 1223 566588

P.O. Box 280, Cambridge, England, CB2 2DY E-Mail

 

And you know this for a fact. How?

Some of them do and some of them don't.

Yeah, some of the no nothing *clowns* I have seen come out of colleges
working for cutting edge companies do need a Pamper change or two -- no
doubt about it.

Free is ok if you want to go that way. But all my stuff on the Windows
machines are free too. It all depends on who you know. And my stuff is
stable at home and in the work place.

I do see them patching the Hell out of Linux just like MS.

What has this got to do with anything?

No I work for multi, multi, multi billion dollar companies and I have
worked for small companies too as a full time employee or contract
programmer, since 1980 actually started in 71 in the IT field.

I have seen and done a whole lot things and forgotten about them too. ;-)

Duane

 

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Just observation. During the working week I visit quite a few customers
large and small and small make up the larger proportion of business in
the UK at least...perhaps things are different over there >?..

Yes of course this is a university city and does turn out some right
duffers;, but there are quite a few tech based companies and other
places like research institutes around here...even Billy Gates has a
place in Cambridge

What is MS office or a windoze OS free now?, yes of course there is a
lot of freebie windoze stuff..

Yep me too.. looks like we'll both be putting our feet up at the same
time then;-))

 

If you know the right people, then of course one is going to get it
free. If you don't know, then you don't know and you're not getting it
free. I have Visual Studio 6, .NET 2000, Office 2000, SQL Server 2000
etc, etc and a whole lot more free.

Duane

 

Free and legal and licensed by Microsoft, or a borrowed copy?......

 

Some the company I worked for at the time gave me and some I got from
other programmers. I don't care as long as I am not paying for it.

Duane

 

Well that isn't free then..as I see it.. more pirated or nicked...

 

I do want you to be aware of what's happening with Win 2K3 server. And
when GoDaddy is talking about future growth, it's talking about .Net
solutions. And a vast majority of the corporate/business world is making
the transition to .NET over Linux and Apache as Win 2K3 and IIS 6 are
very secure solutions unlike Win 2K and IIS 5.

Long

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/04/06/april_2006_web_server_survey.html

Short

http://tinyurl.com/nskgb

It's about .NET as it's being chosen over Java to build Web server,
client server and desktop business solutions.

http://www.dotnetlanguages.net/DNL/Resources.aspx

It's about that .Net Framework as ratified by the ISO and ECMA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure

Duane