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____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 October 2008 07:12 : \____
> Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Brit Business Users Not Warm on Vista
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>> More than half (58 per cent) of businesses using Microsoft
>>>>>> technology are "exploiting" Windows XP compared to just
>>>>>> four per cent for Vista, according to the 'reality
>>>>>> checkers' research by the Corporate IT Forum (Tif), seen
>>>>>> exclusively by silicon.com.
>>>>
>>>> Linux is less than 1 percent after 15 years of being free.....
>>>
>>> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
>>>
>>> In July, W3Schools had Linux hits at 3.6%, now shows 3.8%, in March 2002
>>> was 2.2%. So much for the 1% theory.
>>>
>>> Discounting Linux browsing the Internet cloaked as Windows/IE to view
>>> Microsoft mandated software content,
>>
>>
>> I can't believe many people are doing that anymore. Do you do that? I
>> don't remember the last time a website turned me away for not using Windows.
>>
>
> Most corporate systems were built for IE-only usage, as an example.
> Look at Accenture's outsourced HR offerings, say.
>
> I'd estimate that the vast majority of workers in major corporates are
> stuck with internal systems which have been designed for IE and don't
> work well, if at all, with anything else. Part of the problem is that
> there is no simple business case to make the change, whereas for general
> consumer stuff, the case is very strong indeed.
I hear that about 8% of the people in Brazil use GNU/Linux and that's
even /before/ they deploy it in /all/ the schools.
Found an hour ago:
"For, example, according to this report, there are now 12 million users in
Brazil, representing fully 25% of the entire office market there. "
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1369&blogid=14
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