[austenallred]

Nothing is "wrong" with it, I'm just surrounded by people who obsess about tech all day and go after whatever is newest and shiniest - if you're not running chromium on your 15" retina macbook pro then you're obviously incompetent.

Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better.

Not passing judgment on one or the other, just thought it an interesting realization.

For what it's worth, I run Windows on a virtual machine to do some stuff and I use 7.

[slayed0]

Turns out for most people stability and cost are much more important than having something incrementally better

Or, rather, people have different definitions of better. For many people, cost and stability are huge components of their personal calculation. I think it would be more appropriate for you to say:

having something incrementally NEWER

[tpurves]

I work in tech and take the latest shiniest things very seriously. But when it comes to PCs I don't put Windows 8 in that category, for me it's an egregious regression in UX quality and pleasure of use than Win7. Hope springs eternal for windows 10, but for me Win8 is so packed full of annoyances that I would never consider it to be an upgrade from 7.

[sheltgor]

Have to agree here... my company even develops primarily for Win8, so its not as if I'm not used to using it, but I still vastly prefer Windows 7.

[DanBC]

I'd love to see the stats for HN for browser use.

[joedavison]

On February 20, I had a story hit the front page of HN on a brand-new blog that didn't receive traffic from anywhere else.

Here are some screen shots from my analytics.

OS: http://i.imgur.com/oZNOxCK.png

Browser: http://i.imgur.com/84DGWHz.png

[hackmiester]

For the amount of *nix people I see showing out on here, I'm surprised that it's only 10% - although for the Web in general, that's an absurdly high number, still!

[nitrogen]

Some percentage of Windows visits could be browsing at work, maybe?

[hackmiester]

Hmm...

HN could use the user's ISP to guess whether they were home or at work, then correlate that with OS data.

That's actually an interesting idea!

[dublinben]

>stability and cost

If this were truly the case, they wouldn't be using Windows. It's mostly inertia in large organizations and for the general public.

[NeutronBoy]

I'm not a sys admin by any means, so I may be out of the loop here - but is there a viable alternative for management of tens of thousands of systems and users, outside of Active Directory?

As good as *nix/Apple stuff is, is it really feasible to run it at scale across an org, without building custom deployment tools each time?

[nitrogen]

There were giant UNIX networks before there were giant Windows networks, using things with names like NIS/YP and NFS. IMO building custom deployment tools is kind of the point of using not-Windows, but I'd wager Canonical, RedHat, and/or Oracle have something for central management and deployment of Linux systems.