I did a check recently on another website that I run to see the O.S (operating system) and browsers used by visitors around the world over the last few months. Here’s the interesting results:

Operating System (first number is the number of unique visitors using the O.S) -

• 2623: Windows XP (77%)
  
• 288: Windows 2000 (8.4%)
  
• 157: Mac OS X (4.6%)
  
• 149: Windows Vista (4.4%)
  
• 64: Linux i686 (1.9%)
  
• 44: Windows 98 (1.3%)
  
• 43: Windows NT (1.3%)
  
• 21: OpenBSD (0.6%)
  
• 16: Windows NT 4.0 (0.35%)

Interesting statistics hey? Especially when you consider that visitors running Vista are less than those running MacOS (Apples)… So much for the latest version of Windows taking the world ‘by storm’. Hmmm spin-doctors, gotta love em!

Browser used to visit the site -

• 1922: Internet Explorer 6.0 (57%)
  
• 455: Mozilla Firefox 3.x (13.5%)
  
• 367: Internet Explorer 7.0 (10.9%)
  
• 360: Netscape 4.0 (10.6%)
  
• 116: Safari (3.4%)
  
• 65: Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x (1.9%)
  
• 53: Opera 9.52 (1.6%)
  
• 37: MSIE 5.0 (1.1%)

It’s disturbing the huge numbers of people still using IE6.0 – this browser is the most insecure, outdated one on the planet and should definitely not be used. Modern websites don’t display properly in it either.