Simple Country Physicist

With the formal release of Windows 7 by MegaHard, the folks at Lifehacker held a straw poll last week of their reader’s favorite OS. [Link] Now, even while acknowledging that we have to expect the population to be quite skewed from the species as a whole, after all most humans are highly acomputeric, [1] this chart is quite intriguing:[2]

 

The intriguing part is that something of order 0.27 of the responding (sample) population does not use Windows, at least as a favorite OS. If this were the situation with the species as a whole then MegaHard’s Lanchestrian monopoly would be defunct!

I also find it worthy of consideration that XP still enjoys about twice the usage as VISTA and about the same as Linux.

[1]  Computer/information illiterate. The average computer user, a MegaHard mind serf, think that being able to log in, use a browser to run a Gooey search, send and receive email  via Outlook, and use a spreadsheet or key a memo is computer literacy. There are cases on record from the nineteenth century in Amerika where slaves considered being permitted to decide whether or not to wear their (only) shirt was a freedom.
[2] Yes, I did almost use the “I” word there. 

information, computers, operating system, humans