Which operating systems are you using?

Thanks to everyone who participated in my recent site survey, conducted by the good folks at Federated Media. We received an excellent response, and as promised I’m sharing some of the results here.

Of the five custom questions I added to the survey, I was most interested in seeing what operating systems you’re using. Here’s the result from the survey (note that numbers add up to more than 100% because of multiple responses).

Based on this survey, nearly two-thirds of the active visitors to this site (as opposed to people who get here via search engines) are using Windows Vista. More than 90% are using Windows XP. I sliced and diced the data a little further to see the relative positions of XP and Vista:

One conclusion that these results have brought home for me is the sea change in how market shares get calculated. The rule used to be “one person, one computer.” According to this survey, more than 76% of you have at least three personal computers in your home, and more than 36% have five or more PCs at home. In that sort of environment, it’s not surprising that more than 20% of you would have at least one Linux box on the network and that roughly one in three have a non-Microsoft operating system (OS X or Linux or both) running on the same network as your Windows machines.