世論 What Japan Thinks

I’ve looked before at which Office suite Japanese people use, so the basic figures below will perhaps not be so new to my readers, but perhaps there is some new information that can be gleaned from this recent survey reported by japan.internet.com and conducted by JR Tokai Express Research Inc on the matter of desktop applications in the corporate environment.

Demographics

On the 25th of September 2007 331 members of the JR Tokai Express Research monitor panel employed in the public or private sector completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 84.9% of the sample was male, 11.8% in their twenties, 34.7% in theor thirties, 39.3% in their forties, 12.7% in their fifties, and 1.5% in their sixties.

Of the product categories listed in Q1, I use Microsoft-only for all categories bar the very occasional FileMaker database and I use Notepad2 for my text-based editing needs.

Research results

Of the initial sample, 326 were currently in employment. This group was asked the following questions.

Q1: At your current place of work, which kinds of desktop applications do you use? (Sample size=326, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Word or other word processor	309	94.8%
Excel or other spreadsheet	309	94.8%
PowerPoint or other presentation software	233	71.5%
Notepad or other text editor	175	53.7%
Access or other database	112	34.4%
None of the above	3	0.9%

Q2: Are these applications from Microsoft or from other companies? (Sample size=326)

Microsoft only	74.0%
Both Microsoft and other companies (to SQ)	24.1%
Other companies only (to SQ)	0.3%
Don’t know	1.5%

Q2SQ: Which other companies are these desktop applications from? (Sample size=79, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
OpenOffice.org	15	19.0%
Other freeware, shareware	14	17.7%
Aviva	8	10.1%
Just System	7	8.9%
IBM	7	8.9%
Sun	3	3.8%
Other	11	13.9%
Don’t know	22	27.8%