So Windows 7 has shipped and sales apparently are giving Ballmer the only joy he’s probably had for some time. I know I’m getting ready to plunk down my hard earned money for the Family Pack of Home Premium before the RC version I’m running time-bombs out on me.
At this point everyone that I have read gives the new version of Windows some high marks but this didn’t stop the folks at the Technologizer blog from running a survey to try and the the pulse of what people think of Windows 7. I was one who took the survey so it’s interesting to finally see what the results from it are.
You can read the complete report over at the Technologizer but in the meantime here are some quick facts about the 550+ people who took the survey.
- Prior to using Windows 7, forty-six percent of respondents ran Windows Vista, and thirty-two percent ran Windows XP. Seventeen percent ran Vista and XP about equally, five percent ran an OS other than Windows, and a whopping 0.7 percent used a version of Windows other than Vista or XP.
- Seventy-three percent upgraded an existing PC to the final version of Windows 7, and eight percent are running it on a PC that came with the OS pre-installed. Fourteen percent are still using a pre-release version, and six percent are running it on a Mac via Boot Camp or a virtualization program.
- Sixty-four percent of respondents rate themselves as expert Windows users; thirty-five percent say they’re intermediate ones. Less than one percent call themselves beginners.
- Sixty-one percent are using Windows 7 entirely or mostly for home/personal use. Twenty-five percent are using it about equally for home/personal and business use. Just fourteen percent are using it entirely or mostly for business use.
- Sixty-one percent are using a 64-bit edition of Windows 7, and thirty-one percent are running a 32-bit version.
- Eighty-two percent did a “clean” install of the OS from scratch; nineteen percent installed it over Windows Vista.
- Fifty-nine percent say they’ve used Windows 7 extensively, and thirty-six percent say they’ve done so a fair amount. Five percent say they’ve just used it a little so far.
Since they say a picture is worth a 1,000 words what better way to end the post than with a nice graphic showing part of the results from the survey.
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