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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Julian Hall wrote: > Simon Waters wrote: >> Hardly a representative sample, but I noted that less than a third of >> DCGLUG visitors were using Internet Explorer last week. Less than the >> number of Firefox using visitors. > Is that not simply because visitors to the DCGLUG site fall mainly into > two categories: > > a) Linux users > b) Prospective Linux users, already partially converted to the > non-Microsoft world > > Windows users (generally) are not interested in Linux and tend to toe > the Microsoft line. Therefore Firefox is likely to be the browser of > choice (between these two anyway) for visitors to the website. For most websites a fairly large proportion of the visits comes from people searching for something totally unrelated, so you should take that into account. I hardly ever visit the DCGLUG site, but I have done so from work, using Windows. On a half-related note, I don't like to think of Linux as "an alternative to Windows", but rather as a great OS on its own. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html