Survey: Know anyone using Win9x/ME?
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I have four work systems running XP, I use XP at home (only one system), and I know people who use every OS known to man from linux to OSX to every Windows system ever sold. Unix, at least 4 varieties. And lets not go into real-time OS's, since most of the ones I know are bundled with one of the above as a partner. The problem is, no matter how you word this, you will get skewed data. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Yeah. Like 7 years ago. :) Jon Sagara As you may presently yourself be fully made aware of, my grammar sucks. Sagara.org | Blog | My Articles
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I am ashamed to say that my home pc still is running Win98.
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long time before i wrote a small file stealing program for snatching some files from my class mates' computers.. at that time , i made a survey like this..if majority is using one type of OS,then there wldn't be any need to generalize the program.. i hope u r doing this for someother purpose.. he he :-D 5 V
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I have four work systems running XP, I use XP at home (only one system), and I know people who use every OS known to man from linux to OSX to every Windows system ever sold. Unix, at least 4 varieties. And lets not go into real-time OS's, since most of the ones I know are bundled with one of the above as a partner. The problem is, no matter how you word this, you will get skewed data. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: no matter how you word this, you will get skewed data. True. This is just an unscientific and informal poll to help determine if my freeware offerings should necessarily (continue to) support Win9x/ME. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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Unfortunately.. my home PC still has Windows 98. I have been thinking about upgrading to XP, I'd have to see if the machine will even support it, though maybe I can get by with some extra memory. Can't really afford to upgrade the whole computer right now. The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: no matter how you word this, you will get skewed data. True. This is just an unscientific and informal poll to help determine if my freeware offerings should necessarily (continue to) support Win9x/ME. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Ravi Bhavnani wrote: True. This is just an unscientific and informal poll to help determine if my freeware offerings should necessarily (continue to) support Win9x/ME. But that is the point, you can't judge quantity, even informally like this. You'd do better just asking for a discussion on the viability of supporting Win9x/ME in a product, freeware or otherwise. Although the best way is to ask your users. Most freeware users don't have a forum for their software, this is a mistake. Setting up a forum somewhere, to catch bug reports (without direct email), and offer these questions. As much of a hermit in public life, I know a lot of people on the internet. Enough that if I were to balance it out on OS offerings, I might have to vote 3 as a 50/50 knowing enough older OS's to balance out the XP offerings. But at the same time, I know security recently forced upgrades of all computers on the site to XP, though I do not know most of those people... that is a LOT of XP computers. so do I vote overwhelmingly XP because I know those computers "exist" even though I do not know the people? _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I was just looking through the weblogs of one of our servers yesterday and I noticed a large number of people using Win98. I also noticed people surfing our sites with: AmigaOS :omg: Atari :omg: and CP/M :wtf:
or they are fudging the browser signatures... I used to do that with CP/M or something from CRAY... I haven't done that in a while though, so it isn't me, but someone may be following my dark sense of humor. :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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w3schools stats Here are the August 1-8 stats for a site I have access to: OS/Visitors/% 1 Windows XP - 29,187 77.73% 2 Windows 2000 - 2,304 6.14% 3 Windows 98 - 2,166 5.77% ... 5 Windows ME - 1,045 2.78% ... 8 Windows NT - 145 0.39% 9 Windows Server 2003 - 71 0.19% 10 Windows 95 - 36 0.10% In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and what did that produce - the cuckoo clock! -- Harry Lime
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w3schools stats Here are the August 1-8 stats for a site I have access to: OS/Visitors/% 1 Windows XP - 29,187 77.73% 2 Windows 2000 - 2,304 6.14% 3 Windows 98 - 2,166 5.77% ... 5 Windows ME - 1,045 2.78% ... 8 Windows NT - 145 0.39% 9 Windows Server 2003 - 71 0.19% 10 Windows 95 - 36 0.10% In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and what did that produce - the cuckoo clock! -- Harry Lime
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There are plenty of people/businesses still using 9x/ME. Those systems were bought for a specific purpose and still do the job just as well as they did when they were first purchaseed so why waste the money on a questionable upgrade that offers no additional value. That being said, if you (or anyone else) writes a new piece of software that does not run on 9x, and it is something that people really want, is an improvement over what they already run, and can justify the expense of getting, they will upgrade their systems. It just has to worth their while.
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