Linux outnumbered by Windows 98 in Japanese homes
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Despite the iPod and iPhone being a reasonable success in Japan, Apple are not seeing the benefit in terms of Mac sales, according to this survey reported on by japan.internet.com and conducted by goo Research into home computers, with a look in particular at the upcoming Windows 7.
Demographics
Between the 23rd and 26th of July 2009 1,086 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.4% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 11.9% aged sixty or older.
I use Windows Vista only at home, which does work well for everything I want to do, so I don’t see any reason why I should bother upgrading to Windows 7, especially given that since I run the Ultimate version as it’s the only one to support multiple languages, the upgrade price will be pretty high, I suspect.
Research results
Q1: Do you know about Windows 7? (Sample size=1,086)
Know about it in detail 5.3% Know something about it 24.4% Just heard the name 50.6% Never heard of it 19.7% There was one person who did not have a computer at home, so the following question was asked to the remaining 1,085 people.
Q2: What operating systems do you have installed on your computers at home? (Sample size=1,085, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Windows XP (to SQ1) 841 77.5% Windows Vista (to SQ2) 458 42.2% Windows 2000 62 5.7% Windows Me 47 4.3% Windows 98 30 2.8% Windows 98SE 18 1.7% Windows 95 6 0.6% Windows NT 4.0 2 0.2% Windows NT 3.x 0 0.0% Windows 3.x 0 0.0% Other Windows OS 5 0.5% Mac OS X 62 5.7% Other Mac OS 16 1.5% Linux OS 23 2.1% Other Unix OS 0 0.0% Other 5 0.5% Don’t know 12 1.1% Q2SQ1: Do you think you will upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7? (Sample size=841)
Wait a while after release, then investigate 50.5% Don’t want to upgrade 18.2% Want to buy a new PC 9.8% Want to upgrade 6.9% Don’t know 14.6% Q2SQ2: Do you think you will upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7? (Sample size=458)
Wait a while after release, then investigate 51.5% Want to upgrade 14.6% Don’t want to upgrade 12.9% Want to buy a new PC 2.8% Don’t know 18.1%
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This is probably not a really accurate title….
many of the linux users would of course be using windows 7 as well and vice versa.
it would be more interesting to see if the user is using windows, linux, or both.