Best OS ever poll on Microsoft Channel 9 site
Sridhar Dhanapalan
sridhar at dhanapalan.com
Sat Feb 3 09:06:31 GMT 2007
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, "Daniel Robitaille" <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Currently there is a poll on one of Microsoft web site:
> http://channel9.msdn.com/
>
> The poll is about the "best OS of all time". Interestingly, after
> 142 votes, Microsoft OSes are only at around 70%. OS X is at 11%,
> Ubuntu is at 4.2%, other Linux distros are at 1.4%
>
> I was a bit surprised: I would have expected Microsoft numbers a bit
> higher up considering the audience of that web site. But it's nice to
> see that Ubuntu got its own category in that poll, and is doing not
> too badly considering.
>
> One of the answer in that poll was Singularity, a non-window OS
> project from Microsoft I had never heard of before:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_system%29
> http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=227260
Considering that this is a Web site catering for Windows users, and the fact
that an OS that barely even exists (Singularity) garners over 4% of the
votes, I wouldn't place too much stock in this poll.
--
"Nimda bundles several known exploits against Internet Information Server and
other Microsoft software. Enterprises with Web applications should start to
investigate less-vulnerable Web server products."
- John Pescatore, Information Security Strategies,
Gartner Group, 2001-09-19
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