Here's something that just occured to me. The results of the second polling may have been influenced by Sandy Reed in a more direct way than originally thought.
Someone (I think it was Rachel) said that a few of the people polled in this newer poll commented that they had been following the controversy surrounding the first one.
It just occured to me that the 'controversy' surrounding the poll, as presented by Infoworld's editorial by Sandy Reed, included comments such as "Ballot-box stuffing" and "OS/2 Fanatics". Even better, since these are people that are reading the print version (and not the online version) for the most part, Sandy's editorial is most likely the *only* viewpoint they had.
Do you suppose any of the poll respondents thought that they were countering the OS/2 vote when they voted for NT? How many of the votes that OS/2 would/did have recieved were swayed, in one form or another, by that editorial? How many of the votes that NT recieved had those comments in their heads? It's possible that these results are merely a backlash from Sandy's editorial, more than an honest reflection on the products.
The more I think about it, the more I think that Infoworld should have just completely scrapped this year...
-steve
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