{"id":15656,"date":"2008-12-23T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/12\/os-percentages.html"},"modified":"2008-12-23T23:24:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T23:24:26","slug":"os_percentages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/os_percentages\/","title":{"rendered":"OS percentages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0\">Last week I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/12\/feedback_please_4.html\">requested feedback<\/a> about operating system usage among Photoshop CS4 customers, and I said I&#8217;d share the findings here.&#160; Having gathered some 1,200 responses, I can share a few notes I found interesting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I was curious mainly about how rapidly Windows-based customers are adopting 64-bit operating systems.&#160; You get both 32- and 64-bit flavors of Photoshop in the CS4 box, but plug-in developers need to know when a critical mass of customers will demand 64-bit compatibility.&#160; Of current CS4 customers running PS on Windows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">\n<li>39% (!) are using Vista 64\n<\/li>\n<li>8% are planning to migrate in 3-6 months\n<\/li>\n<li>9% are planning to migrate in 6-12 months\n<\/li>\n<li>23% are planning to migrate &quot;at some point&quot;\n<\/li>\n<li>20% are not planning to migrate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I should point out that this poll is hardly scientific&#8211;more like sticking your finger in the air to gauge wind direction.&#160; Still, I was struck by the high number of people using Vista 64.&#160; Of course, the data come from people who bought CS4 in its first two<br \/>\nmonths, and who are motivated to read my blog <em>and<\/em> to answer surveys.&#160; <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">My take is that Windows-based customers aren&#8217;t in any rush to install Vista on existing hardware, but that when they do buy new machines, they&#8217;re going with Vista 64.&#160; In any case, it&#8217;s great to see people moving forward.&#160; The sooner customers drop old technologies, the sooner we can lop off (and stop maintaining) old code. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">Here&#8217;s another wrinkle in the numbers: among visitors to this blog, Mac browsers account for just<br \/>\nover one third, yet 68% of survey respondents say they run PS<br \/>\non a Mac (with 60% running it primarily there).  I take this to mean Mac<br \/>\nusers are disproportionately likely to respond to an OS usage survey.  The<br \/>\nsame may be true for Vista 64 adopters (who are proud of their choice and<br \/>\nwant you to know about it).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">If you&#8217;d like to see the raw data collected, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/sr.aspx?sm=mRWWUkJhL_2fXBU0bdASCWinelYOTOA_2bc1L3dcJ5_2frqsI_3d\">be my guest<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I requested feedback about operating system usage among Photoshop CS4 customers, and I said I&#8217;d share the findings here.&#160; Having gathered some 1,200 responses, I can share a few notes I found interesting. &#160; I was curious mainly about how rapidly Windows-based customers are adopting 64-bit operating systems.&#160; You get both 32- and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}