How fast can Windows 7 go?
Earlier in the week PC Pro ran an article stating that Windows 7 is “already used on 1% of PCs”. This was lifted from some Internet metrics measured by NetApplications. It’s easy to do – each time you visit a website, your browser tells the website what version it is, and what operating system it is running on.
Given the buzz this summer about Windows 7, I thought I’d have a quick look at the stats for this blog. And the answer has truly surprised me. (Or at least it did once I’d learned from Wikipedia that Windows 7 reports itself as Windows NT 6.1)
What this table shows is the last 1,000 visitors to the blog – and 1 in 6 are running Windows 7!
Now I reckon that this is partly because the readers are more technical, and there’s been quite a buzz about Windows 7 – and lots of early deployments in education. Given that there have already been half a dozen schools who’ve told me they’ve rolled out Windows 7 to all their desktops, and plenty of experiments in universities, perhaps Windows 7 is going to overtake even Windows 95 in it’s speed of adoption.
I was genuinely surprised at what I saw. Are you?
