Hi Rob, The poll at PC World is very non-scientific. It isn't, however, skewed as you think. The number of comments does not correspond to the number of votes - i.e. I voted without commenting. Also, the comments are moderated (I contacted the moderator, Chris Keall at IDG, about the last poll) and you'll see them go up and down as duplicates and trolls are removed... The bummer is that they don't list the raw numbers. Ironically, however, sometime yesterday the pro-linux percentage was up around 29%, having climbed from 17% the day before. Last time I looked, it'd gone down to 16%... I suspect that MS sent a message around to all their vendors to call them to "suggest" that they voice their support for XP :o). Note, by the way, the number of people who comment that they're planning to move to XP just because their current Windows version is such crap. Poor sheep.
Tremble in fear... or run Linux :o) Cheers, Dave On Sunday 28 October 2001 09:05, Robert Sherlock wrote: > Nick Elder wrote: > > http://www.pcworld.co.nz/ > > > > AND I just had to call there and vote with some rather cutting comments > > againsed windows and windows XP I am afraid. But my opinion is that > > if we don't voice againsed windows and eventually be heard, then the > > masses are just going to keep shelling out to buy a silly and dangerous > > (with regard to security) operating system. > > AND so I just had to read your comments <g>, and the others. In doing > so I noticed the numbers didn't seem to tie up with the stats. A count > of the 64 votes listed revealed: > > Category Votes %age %age listed on web site > > Upgrade ASAP 11 17 36 > Upgrade in 6mo 9 14 23 > Upgrade sometime 11 17 14 > No / product act 11 17 11 > No / Linux user 22 34 16 > > Could there be a bug in Excel XP? > > Of course, the paranoid might draw other conclusions <bg>, > > Rob > -------------------------------------------- > Robert Sherlock, SmartWork Systems Ltd., > PO Box 36-515, Christchurch, New Zealand. > Phone (+64) 3 355-4194 Fax (+64) 3 355-4199 > -------------------------------------------- -- ** David Lane, Director ** Egressive Limited (Chch) ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** PO Box 24162, Christchurch, NZ ** ** www.egressive.com ** Open Source: software for the discerning palate ** ** let's make NZ open source friendly - visit www.openz.org **
