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.


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