The unknown may be mobile devices. I visit the site everyday from my palm using either the built in blazer browser (which sucks) or Opera Mini. Mostly Blazer though, because I have the site bookmarked.

Sometimes I visit with NetFront. I'm willing to lay odds that Picsel Bowser's's been here before, too (I don't have it installed, honest!).

Interesting that the number of Linux visitors is almost as large as Mac OSX.

"I was pretty surprised to find that only 22% of our readers are using Vista, while 48% of our readers are still using XP"

How is vista to pass XP in one year, when XP has been out for something like 6 or 7? It's like people just want to knock Vista, even when there's nothing to knock.

Neil sure has a bone to pick with Rob. I'd like to meet the person(s) who is still using Windows 98.

Rob, this really surprised you?


"I was pretty surprised to find that only 22% of our readers are using Vista, while 48% of our readers are still using XP, more than a year after Vista has been released."

2.37% I feel so special.

Not quite seeing, why you think Neil has a bone to pick with Rob, but i think its important to remember that the average consumer doesn't move to a new OS just b/c it's out, especially if the old one isn't exactly broken.

Yes Vista has new features for tablet pc users, but most users don't move to a new OS, until they buy a new machine. Early adopters will go out & make sure they have the latest & greatest...& though not a member of these forums...i still have an uncle running windows 98..and though the thought makes me shudder...People do tend to stay with what they're comfortable with.

I was expecting upwards of 40%, esp considering the Tablet pc improvements

As far as Neil's bone to pick with Rob, I probably read it incorrectly. Now that I've re-read it, I can see multiple interpretations in how it's worded. My apologies to Neil.

I was also somewhat biased in my thoughts because I was thinking along the same lines as Rob. I would have expected somewhere around 30 to 40%. The arguments made for the "average consumer" seem like they'd be somewhat moot for this website. I wouldn't think the average consumer would stop by GottaBeMobile.com and check out what folks are saying about their tablets and mobile devices. The average consumer also doesn't own a tablet or UMPC.

Rob, do you think maybe some Vista systems are falling into the unknown category due to a particular security set-up? I'm not sure what it's using to gather these statistics, so it made me curious.

Unknown, at least in my web logs, generally indicates everything from RSS readers to broken/hijacked Browser-Agent strings, but given the high numbers, I'm betting on RSS is the majority of this site's Unknowns.

I definitely think that IE and Firefox are the browsing champs these days for obvious reasons, but I'm not surprised by the XP trumping Vista figures. In my situation, I despise Vista and have no desire to upgrade ever. I hated it in beta, and I hate it a year later with SP1. (In fairness, I hated XP until SP2 was released, opting to run Windows 2000 from the time it hit beta in late 1998 until XP-SP2's release.) I'm sure a lot of us have XP computers at work still too, and I know that's where I do the majority of my GBM reading. ;)

PS--- Unknowns are usually search-engines too.

Here I am, still using in Win 98 since 1897...

Muhahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cory - I think they are mostly search engines and rss

I think that vista is low because a lot of people are using older machines or desktops with no reason to switch. I have XP on my laptop because it's an M200 and I haven't rebuilt it and probably will replace it rather than do that. I have XP on my desktop because it came with the machine, and I see no reason to switch to Vista at this time -- particularly with the issues regarding Send to OneNote.

Neither is a slap against Vista. although there are enough compatibility issues still to have some doubts.

I had completely forgotten about search engines and the RSS feed. That makes a lot more sense now.

jkontherun just put up a blog showing that there were more OS X than Vista users visiting their website!

Rob, as much as I want the upgraded tablet bits in Vista, the likelihood that Vista would slow down my machine and increase power consumption is a major deterrent. And since my tablet does not have dedicated graphics, as is true for most tablets, the eye candy would only slow it down further. This drops Vista fairly low on my list of upgrades.

Ok who has Windows 98?

Hey guys, you have about twice the number of Vista users as we do over at Notebooks.com. We ran a similar report here:

<a href http://www.notebooks.com/2008/03/25/notebookscom-users-still-love-windows-xp/>Notebooks.com OS Share Report </a>

http://www.notebooks.com/2008/03/25/notebookscom-users-still-love-windows-xp/