世論 What Japan Thinks

With Windows 7 just two months old, this survey from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, into home computers, looking in particular at Windows 7, found over 10% of users had already adopted it.

Demographics

Between the 14th and 19th of January 2010 1,087 members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private intenet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 17.9% in their twenties, 21.8% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.5% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.

I run Windows Vista on my desktop and Windows XP on my netbook, but I have no intention of upgrading either the netbook as it probably doesn’t have the horsepower to make much difference, or the desktop as we need the Ultimate pack to support a separate language for each user.

Research results

Seven people did not have a computer at home, so the remaining 1,080 were asked the following.

Q1: What operating systems do you have installed on your computers at home? (Sample size=1,080, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Windows 7 (to SQs)	113	10.5%
Windows Vista	453	41.9%
Windows XP	780	72.2%
Windows 2000	61	5.6%
Windows NT	3	0.3%
Window Me	41	3.8%
Windows 98SE	24	2.2%
Windows 98	39	3.6%
Other Windows OS	18	1.7%
Mac OS X	58	5.4%
Other Mac OS	13	1.2%
Linux-based OS	25	2.3%
Other Unix-based OS	2	0.2%
Other	4	0.4%
Don’t know	30	2.8%

Q1SQ1: Did you upgrade to Windows 7? (Sample size=113, multiple answer)

Yes, bought an upgrade (to SQ2, SQ3)	36.3%
Yes, received an upgrade (to SQ2, SQ3)	6.2%
No, came pre-installed, etc (to SQ3)	57.5%

Q1SQ2: From what operating systems did you upgrade to Windows 7 from? (Sample size=48, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Windows Vista	38	79.2%
Windows XP	12	25.0%
Windows 2000	1	2.1%
Windows Me	1	2.1%
Other	0	0.0%
Don’t know	1	2.1%

Q1SQ3: Do you use the Windows 7 Windows Touch feature on your home computer? (Sample size=113)

Regularly use it	3.5%
Sometimes use it	3.5%
Just tried it out	1.8%
Have display that supports it, but never used it	5.3%
Don’t have a display that supports it	58.4%
Don’t know if I have a display that supports it	12.4%
Don’t know what Windows Touch is	15.0%