RAM upgrade

I don't know what the numbers there track but they plain and simply make
no sense at all! There is no way that anyone is going to make me
beleive that there are more Win 3.x surfing the net than Win95, Win ME
and Vista combined! These numbers are bogus, I dare say that there are
more Vista machines on the net than Win 3.x machines and I also dare say
that there are most likely more Win ME machines than Win 3.x.

1. Windows XP 53496272 (81%)
2. Win 2000 3570762 (5%)
3. Win NT 3085183 (4%)
4. Mac 2621571 (3%)
5. Win 98 1426388 (2%)
6. Unknown 1047210 (1%)
7. Linux 399138 (0%)
8. Win 3.x 81427 (0%)
9. Unix 24958 (0%)
10. Win 95 17490 (0%)
11. WebTV 13251 (0%)
12. OS/2 2755 (0%)
13. Windows ME 1810 (0%)
14. Windows Vista 43 (0%)
15. Amiga 42 (0%)

John

98 Guy wrote:
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:


You are mistaken. Of internet users, less than 1% use Windows 98.


I've seen stats indicating 2% as of July 2007.


MUCH less than any other OS that's been out since 98 came out


I believe that there were versions of Linux back in 1998, and
naturally there was unix, win 3.x and win-98. Win-98 use is currently
used more than any of those, not "MUCH less".


http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp


Which tracks only hits to that web domain.

This tracks hits to all domains using this reporting and stats
service:

http://www.thecounter.com/stats/

I've just plotted all the 15 OS's they track (plotted going back to
June 2006). I see a few interesting things:

- MAC use jumped from 3% to 4% in Nov/2006 (but in general there
is no general trend to the change)

- Win-98 use was 5% in June 2006 and is 2% in July 2007
(basically, it's currently dropping at the rate of 1%
every 7 months, so it should hit 1% in March 2008)

- Linux is basically static, somewhere between .25 and .5%

- Win-NT was less than Linux up until February 2007, when it
started to climb 1% per month. I wonder if this is an error
and this is really Vista being mis-identified as NT.

- XP peaked at 84% in January 2007, and has been declining at
0.5% per month since then. Win-2K has shown a very even decline
from 8.5% to 5.5% (about 0.2% decline per month)

- Windows ME has stabilized at 0.003% for the past 6-8 months.

- Win 3.x and Win-95 are very similar (0.1 to 0.15%) but win-95
has fallen to 0.0025% for the last 4 months .


"ssome" wrote:


Yea, we know, but... maybe a world wide petition. looks like
30% of users still use win 98 FAT32 is plenty and many of my
friends still use DOS apps, i use one dbase for my books.
we are not all gamers


But you'll get laughed out of court if you demand that the world,
particularly applications developers, cater to your anachronistic
whims.


"Ron Badour" wrote:


MS no longer supports W98 and a petition will not change that
I'm afraid.


Ssome, you've got to realize that people like Gary and Ron earn their
living based on continuous change in operating systems driven by the
Micro$haft business model. Without OS turnover, we would end up with
a stabilization of systems and software, and the need for IT people to
tinker and troubleshoot and fix things would slowly go away. So the
MVP's here have a vested interest in seeing people and businesses
migrate to each new MS OS.