世論 What Japan Thinks

With Patch Tuesday tomorrow promising (threatening?) three critical updates, let’s look at this survey from JR Tokai Express Research Inc and reported on by japan.internet.com into comnputer maintainance at home.

Demographics

Over the 3rd and 4th of June 2008 330 members of the JR Tokai Express Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.9% of the sample were male, 3.3% in their teens, 16.4% in their twenties, 40.3% in their thirties, 21.8% in their forties, 10.0% in their fifties, 5.8% in their sixties, and 2.4% aged seventy or older.

I’m not 100% which camp I fall into, as I have Windows set up to automatically download, but to notify me before install. In addition, I visit Windows Update once a month or so just to see if there is any extra optional components. As for defragmenting, I’ve never done that on my home PC, mostly as it’s too slow, although I’ll do it at work just to make me look busy. I might just do it tonight just to see what happens.

Research results

First of all, from the 330 people in the original sample, 309 of them ran a Windows variant on their home PC. This group was asked the following questions.

Q1: Do you have Windows Update set to automatically update? (Sample size=309)

Yes	71.8%
No (to SQ)	17.5%
Don’t know (to SQ)	6.1%
Don’t know what Windows Update is	4.5%

Q1SQ: About how often do you run the Windows Update tool, visit the site? (Sample size=73)

Almost every day	5.5%
One to three times a week	2.7%
Once a month	12.3%
Once every two or three months	2.7%
Once every six months	2.7%
Once a year	6.8%
Whenever I feel concerned about it	35.6%
Never used it	15.1%
Don’t know	16.4%

Q2: About how often do you run the defrag (defragmentation) tool? (Sample size=309)

Almost every day	2.4%
One to three times a week	4.2%
Once a month	13.3%
Once every two or three months	7.9%
Once every six months	2.7%
Once a year	7.0%
Whenever I feel concerned about it	22.1%
Never used it	10.0%
Don’t know	30.3%