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How many people are using Windows Vista in percentage

Where can I see a *very recent* statistic about how many people are using Windows Vista and how many are using Windows XP?
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http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

scroll down to "os platform statistics"
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This is from about a month ago but that's fairly recent:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129525/article.html
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Run5k: little data but very recent. Thanks!
JamesCssl: lot of data but the very recent part is missing. Thanks!
orangutang: nothing new... thanks anyway

Note: I will wait some more time before closing the question
Perhaps you could post a question in xp asking everyone their if they use it or not - that should give you a pretty decent sample size if everyone responds. Otherwise ask EE if they can make another survey for it and see if they will disclose the overall results

For the record - I use Vista Ultimate 32bit but I dual boot with XP - so I get the best of both worlds.  :)
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aleinss: thanks, very interesting! but I can't believe to 32.8% Vista users before next year...  I believe that your site is very inclined to Vista users...
Well, the site is an enthusiast site, so if you wanted to get the largest possible sample of Vista users out there, it's probably the best way.  Dell and other manufacturers have also striped the right to purchase Windows XP pre-loaded on their systems.  Unless you have a copy of Windows XP upgrade/full or an OEM copy that's never been used, you will in essence be forced to use Windows Vista.

SP3 for Windows XP has gotten pushed back to 2008, now 3 1/2 years after the last service pack.  Halo 2 will only work on Windows Vista.  When little Billy's games only work on Windows Vista, guess who will go out and get Vista (or buy a new PC)?

I searched for access.log via Google and downloaded the Win32 version of analog to parse the logs. These are some of the sites I looked at:

http://www.clevelandprohockey.com/logs/
http://www.vidtags.com/logs
http://www.todi-media.com/logs/
http://www.backstretchmotorsports.com/logs/

Vista can barely be found in these, maybe one person running Vista from April 1st to April 13th came to each site.

More fun is AWstats, check these out:
http://pvda-enschede.nl/webstat/awstats.pvda-enschede.nl.osdetail.html
http://distrowatch.com/awstats/awstats.DistroWatch.com.osdetail.html

Distrowatch has had 456310 unique visitors month to date and of those visitors month to day, 3.6% of them were running Vista.  Of course, this site is for Linux fans, so the Vista numbers will be lower :)

Another site with heavy hits:
http://boingboing.net/stats/awstats.boingboing.net.osdetail.html

To date this month, 1126157 unique visitors!  Just a general site...drum roll please:

      Windows XP      59.4 %      
      Windows NT      0.9 %      
      Windows Me      0.2 %      
      Windows Vista  2.4 %      
      Windows CE      0 %      
      Windows 98      0.6 %      
      Windows 95      0 %      
      Windows 2003      0.5 %      
      Windows 2000      3.2 %      
      Windows 3.xx      0 %      

So yes, Windows XP is still king (for now).
If we break this down to just Windows, that would be:

Windows XP: 87.9%
Windows Vista: 3.6%
Windows 2000: 4.8%
Sorry, the last post is a repeat. JamesCssl already gave that link, sorry. :(
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I think JamesCssl should be included in the split.
Sounds perfect
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