[LINK] Re: Windows XP versus Vista

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Mon Jan 21 09:48:21 AEDT 2008


Ahh the joy of being able to make statistics say whatever you want....

On 1/21/08, stephen at melbpc.org.au <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:
>
> > From: Lyndon Sharp <lyndons at ozemail.com.au>
>
> I have just completed my annual analytics of the Board of Studies NSW
> website for the whole of 2007.


[...]

That is, there are currently still less Vista users than Mac users.


"whole of 2007" and "currently" are clearly two very different time periods
- especially when you're talking about an OS which hasn't even been
available for "the whole of 2007".

A more realistic statistic would be to re-do the counts including only the
past 1 or (at most) 3 months.  If Vista managed 4.57% when averaged over the
whole year, then I'd be very surprised if it didn't beat MacOS's 5.12% if
you were looking only over a shorter time period.

  Scott.



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