[cw-discuss] (no subject)

[Rob]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:44, Geoffrey wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 13:42, Jason Van Patten wrote:
> >> Geeks like us are in the small 5%.  And that's where we're
> >> staying.  And there's no real business win in making the 5%
> >
> > Internet Explorer's market share is no higher than 85% by
> > any reasonable estimation (recent news reports claim 83%),
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Yeah, I'm familiar with w3schools.  Unfortunately, I think that's 
nearly as unreasonable an estimation as the statistics of 
msn.com (the IE start page) would be.  From the site itself:

"W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web 
technologies. These people are more interested in using 
alternative browsers than the average user. The average user 
tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with 
Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers."

Statistics taken from a wide variety of sites, both technical and 
non-technical, are probably more reliable than single-site 
measurements.

Anyway, more interesting to this list should be the OS statistics 
further down, since I think a lot of cxoffice users are also at 
least occasional web developers.  It shows that among w3schools 
visitors, the share of Mac and Linux users has almost doubled in 
the last 3 years.  That should be good news for Jeremy and co. 
if they weren't already aware of it. 

Rob