Windows 7 building up steam in schools
16 November 2009
You may remember a while ago I mentioned that almost 1 in 5 readers of this blog are running Windows 7.
To be honest, that’s nagged at me for a while. Because I’ve worried that it means that I’m only “preaching to the choir” – ie the readers of the blog are only the super-keen Microsoft lovers. Although some of the emails I get would prove that wrong :-)
So I thought I’d check elsewhere, and asked Chris at EduGeek what their statistics were showing. EduGeek is a big community of network managers and technicians from schools in the UK (and latterly in other countries too). His answer (after duly consulting the web logs) was 14%. Not quite matching my 19%, but considering that it is a much more diverse community, its still a surprisingly good number.
The whole table was:
| Windows XP |
56% |
| Windows Vista |
17% |
| Windows 7 |
14% |
| Mac OS |
7% |
| Windows 2003 |
2% |
| Ubuntu |
2% |
| Linux |
1% |
You can read the EduGeek statistics on their website – and if you don’t know EduGeek already, then it’s worth considering popping onto their website more regularly.
There’s something that I don’t get in this table (and it was the same in my earlier version) – 2% are browsing the web using Windows Server 2003. Must be a statistical oddity – or there’s more going on the in the school Server Room than we all think!
Posted @ 08:16
