I wouldnt say that the results were surprising at all, every time I have seen this survey, and the results before, I knew that this was not a true reflection of the ALL the readers opinions.
If anything is true, it is that the new survey is NOT a reflection of all the readers. By admission of infoworld, it is just a small percentage, and therefore less accurate than if all readers were allowed to vote.
Make a comparence with browserwatch.iworld.com, (measures how many hits the different www clients make to that site) wich had much of the same problems. Once they added safeguards against "fraud", the OS/2 www clients almost dissapeared from the survey...
Browserwatch may have had one person [according to them very few] who fudged. That does not mean most of the hits were from that individual. In fact, I watched it for awhile afterward and it dropped only a few points due to the new counting scheme.
So surprised? naaa... Mixing religion and business never was a good idea.
Ah, the nasties come out.
The fact is that religious folk are those who think there is only one way, and that is their own. In compuerdom, those folks are almost always windows users. They don't think any other tool is useful, or should exist. And, with that attitude they will no doubt get their wish if the rest of the world is convinced of it. And per Bob Metcalfe's column, per the example of France, we will be getting prices raised about double when Microsoft has no competition.
So, it is the Windows users that are religious. OS/2 users are most often not. Almost every OS/2 user acknowledges DOS and Win 3.1 since OS/2 has them built in and does them very well [as opposed to NT which does not]. And very often OS/2 users have more than that; they often have Linux, Win 95, NT, Solaris, AIX and other OS's in their skill pool, and installed as well.
Rather than a one world government of 1984, OS/2 users tend to be very well versed with all tools and furthermore know how to use them. I hardly think that is *religious*. But I think you may be...
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