世論 What Japan Thinks

Following up on two days ago’s translated survey that showed surprisingly high penetration of Internet Explorer 7, japan.internet.com published the results of a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research into Windows Vista. The survey was conducted on the 28th of February, barely a month after Vista’s release in Japan, which seems not to have been much of a success. Note also the results of a previous survey conducted last year into interest in Microsoft Vista recorded one in five planning to upgrade.

Demographics

330 people from their monitor group employed in public or private enterprises replied to the private internet-based survey. 74.8% of the sample was male, 16.4% in their twenties, 43.9% in their thirties, 28.8% in their forties, 8.2% in their fifties, and 2.7% in their sixties.

I’m holding off from Vista for the moment myself; I don’t see any need to upgrade from XP, and indeed I also see many reasons not to upgrade, having used it for a time at work last Autumn when testing out the beta versions. Despite most people having Vista-ready notebook computers, I don’t know of anyone at our workplace who has tried upgrading their main PCs.

Research results

Q1: What operating system do you use the most at home? (Sample size=330)

Windows XP	78.8%
Windows 2000	6.1%
Mac OS X	4.5%
Windows 98	3.9%
Windows Me	3.6%
Windows Vista	0.9%
Other Mac OS	0.6%
Windows 95	0.3%
Other windows OS	0.3%
Windows NT 3.x, 4.0	0.0%
Windows 3.x, 98 SE	0.0%
KanjiTalk (Japanese version of old Mac OS)	0.0%
Linux	0.0%
Other Unix-like OS	0.0%
Don’t know	0.3%
Don’t have a PC at home	0.6%
Other	0.0%

Q2: For those of you interested in Vista, do you plan to buy a new PC? (Sample size=246)

Already have a Vista-ready PC	23.2%
Yes, plan to buy a Vista-ready PC	4.1%
Yes, plan to buy another kind of PC	1.6%
No, don’t plan to buy a PC	48.4%
Don’t know	17.9%
Other	4.9%

Q3: What operating system do you use the most at work? (Sample size=330)

Windows XP	74.8%
Windows 2000	14.2%
Windows 98	1.5%
Mac OS X	1.2%
Windows 98 SE	0.9%
Other Unix-like OS	0.6%
Windows NT 4.0	0.3%
Windows NT 3.x	0.3%
Other Mac OS	0.0%
Windows Vista	0.0%
Windows Me	0.0%
Windows 95	0.0%
Windows 3.x	0.0%
Other windows OS	0.0%
Kanji Talk	0.0%
Linux	0.0%
Don’t know	3.9%
Don’t use a PC at work	1.8%
Other	0.0%