世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Research, as reported by japan.internet.com, took a look at home computer use, with the published report focusing on problems with them.

Demographics

Between the 22nd and 25th of March 2011 1,083 members of the goo Research monitor group answered a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.1% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 17.6% in their twenties, 21.0% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 16.0% in their fifties, and 12.6% aged sixty or older.

I don’t think I’ve had any particular problem with my PC in the last year, although my wife always has problems with Internet Explorer being too slow as she has millions of bookmarks, and repeated running of Flash fills up the memory in no time.
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This short report on a survey from Marsh Inc by japan.internet.com into home computer environment, but in particular on computer problems, found over two-thirds tried to fix problems themselves first.

Demographics

Between the 14th and 16 of April 2010 300 members of the Marsh monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female, 1.3% in their teens, 18.7% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 20.0% in their fifties, and 20.0% aged sixty or older.

I have Windows Update set to download automatically, as I usually want to check to see what’s getting updated, and I can delay the update until I finish a session, to prevent the reboot reminder getting in the way. At work we are supposed to switch it off; I’d like to say it’s because it gives the IT department a chance to test out stuff, but I suspect it’s more for a dubious reason like preventing overload of the local network.
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japan.internet.com, in conjunction with Cross Marketing Inc, published the results of research into personal computer maintenance. They interview 300 people, exactly 50:50 male and female, and exactly 20% aged 18 or 19, and 20% in their twenties, thirties, forties and fifties.

I can’t say I regularly clean inside my PC, if at all, except to just blow dust out of the way when putting new bits in! I wonder if the virus scan option in Q2SQ includes a spyware check?
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