Best OS ever poll on Microsoft Channel 9 site

[Jonathan Jesse]

> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:20:49 +0100
> Rolf Kutz <kutz at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
>> > 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%,
>>
>> Even more suprising that Vista counts for 45% all
>> alone, given that it was only released to the
>> enduser this week.
>
> Not so surprising really :) After all, if this was a Mac site, the latest
> OS-X would win hands down, and on an Ubuntu site the latest Ubuntu would
> probably win too.
>
> What I find interesting is that Ubuntu has a category of its own, and that
> even though you need to log on ( thus being most likely an MS fan or at
> least a non-geek), it still scores over 4% . If you add the "other Linux"
> category, you get around 5.5% , and there is a 2% vote for Unix as well :)
> Poor old BSD gets a zero though... ( Obligatory Slashdot reference "
> NineMSN confirms - BSD is dying!" )
>
> Peter
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As an active participant in the community on C9, it is not suprising that
Vista ranks so high due to most particpants being involved in various
betas and using a vast amount of the CTPs that were released.  As
mentioned Ubuntu has its own seperate category because it is the most
discussed Linux distro on the board
-- 
Jonathan Jesse