世論 What Japan Thinks

I haven’t had a look at this subject for a while, so it was good to get some fresh data on home computer operating systems.

Demographics

Over the 14th and 15th of January 2011 1,099 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 12.0% aged sixty or older.

I’m on Windows XP on my netbook and Vista on my desktop, but too stingy to splash out for the full upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate that I need in order to run multiple language versions side-by-side. I must be one of the few people reasonably satisfied with Vista over XP, however, at least once I got it all configured correctly.

Research results

First of all, all bar eight people had computers at home, so they were eliminated and the following question asked of the remaining 1,091.

Q1: What operating systems do you have on your home computers? (Sample size=1,091, multiple answer)

Windows (to SQ1)	97.2%
Mac OS	5.9%
Linux	1.5%
Other	0.4%

Q1SQ1: Which versions of Windows do you have on your home computers? (Sample size=1,060, multiple answer)

Windows XP	49.6%
Windows Vista	33.1%
Windows 7 (to SQ2)	29.7%
Windows 2000	3.2%
Other Windows	2.9%

Q1SQ2: Did you upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7? (Sample size=315)

Yes (to SQ3)	78.1%
No	21.9%

Q1SQ3: How satisfied are you with Windows 7 compared to Windows XP? (Sample size=246)

Completely satisfied	27.6%
Satisfied to some extent	52.0%
Can’t say either way	15.4%
A little dissatisfied	4.5%
Completely dissatisfied	0.4%