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osViews: Google's "Other" Statistic Clarifies OS Install-Base
Sep 3, 2004, 02 :30 UTC (14 Talkback[s]) (8982 reads)

(Other stories by Kelly McNeill)

[ Thanks to Kelly McNeill for this link. ]

"One of the oddities I found on this resource was a value represented as 'other.' Normally I wouldn't have given the issue a second thought except for the fact that this figure was equal to Macintosh, Linux and Windows 95 users combined. Though the stat implied that 'other' represented every other operating system out there, I simply don't believe that the more obscure OSes out there--even combined--make up a figure that is that high.

"But if 'other' doesn't represent these lesser-used operating systems, what is it then...?"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
It's interesting, but the article ha ...   Speculation   
James
Sep 3, 2004, 05:42:10
 
Maybe Google discontinued the OS statist ...   Discontinued   
Onan the Barbarian
Sep 3, 2004, 08:11:01
 
Many of the statistics counted as Window ...   Misses Linux users counted as Windows.   
Shiva
Sep 3, 2004, 12:12:04
 
Clearly windows XP does not run on over  ...   XP!?   
alison
Sep 3, 2004, 12:38:42
 
> It's interesting, but the article  ...   Re: Speculation   
Onan the Barbarian
Sep 3, 2004, 13:07:47
 
> By the way: Brian, what are the OS sta ...   Re: Re: Speculation   
Brian Proffitt
Sep 3, 2004, 14:15:16
 
I think it completely plausible for "oth ...   A plausible explaination.   
Kevin Hudson
Sep 3, 2004, 14:51:46
 
> Unlike the author of this article, I w ...   Re: Re: Re: Speculation   
R.L.
Sep 3, 2004, 14:54:23
 
> Agreed. And how does *Others* look by  ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Speculation   
Brian Proffitt
Sep 3, 2004, 15:05:05
 
Brian, perhaps your "other" contains a f ...   Re: Re: Re: Speculation   
alison
Sep 3, 2004, 15:16:18
 
> Brian, perhaps your "other" contains a ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: Speculation   
Brian Proffitt
Sep 3, 2004, 15:18:17
 
  Windows 3.1X:  Yep, people are still u ...   Re: A plausible explaination.   
Hyper L
Sep 3, 2004, 16:20:47
 
Okay, so there is an "other" category an ...   Why not just FIND OUT?   
Brandioch Conner
Sep 3, 2004, 21:25:52
 
> > > By the way: Brian, what are the OS ...   Re: Re: Re: Speculation   
Jim McClanahan
Sep 4, 2004, 04:05:09
 
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