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To: Doren who wrote (39091)	1/16/2004 2:42:58 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) of 213182

>>Apple likes to tout the fact that 40% of its installed base is using OSX. Seems to me that 40% after 3 years is pretty bad.<< Doren - Seems to me that 40% is actually pretty good. Especially when you consider the time it took for the bread and butter applications to trickle out in OS X versions, and the fact that one does need to upgrade most if not all of one's apps when moving to X. Consider the fact that Microsoft still can't boast a majority of users running XP, even though most apps written for older Windows versions will run on it. Here's an interesting article about Windows new versions uptake. It reports on a study showing how slowly American businesses are upgrading Windows. news.com.com Some excerpts: "Windows XP, the most current version of Windows, was found on just 6.6 percent of the machines." That refers to businesses. Then there's this: "Consumers are also still widely using Windows 98. Google reported that 29 percent of searches done in September came from machines running Windows 98, as compared with 38 percent from Windows XP-based PCs and 20 percent from Windows 2000 machines." - Allen

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