“10:44 a.m. Reller said two thirds of business PCs are still on Windows XP. That represents 300 million PCs.”
see WPC11 coverage

If 2/3 of business PCs = 300million then 3/3 of business PCs = 3/2 X 300million = 450million PCs, about 1/3 of all PCs and that does not count hand-helds.

Consider that a great deal of individual purchase of computers is at least partially motivated by a need to either work at home on documents brought home from the office or to give students a leg up on life by making them familiar with what is being used by the businesses that they will one day work within.

You made a foolish statement. Learn to live with your mistakes. You may someday become more credible overall.

Big business, at least, is not going to buy “home” versions from Best Buy and they buy their own licences direct from M$ or resellers. That leaves 25% of PCs purchased by big businesses.

Dell lists its segments. Large, small and medium business segments account for half the revenue.

HP gets about twice as much revenue from selling commercial hardware as consumer but the prices of the commercial units are often higher.

In 2005, Lenovo had 83% of its revenue from consumers.

IDC wrote (June 6, 2011), “Consumer PC purchases have been a cornerstone of PC growth over the past five years. During this time, a transition to low-cost portables helped drive purchases by new users in emerging markets as well as replacement and secondary systems in more mature markets. Consumer PC shipment growth averaged 18.9% from 2005 to 2007, almost 7% faster than commercial shipments. During 2008 and into 2009, consumer growth was actually faster at more than 21% while commercial growth fell below 3% in 2008 and then dropped to -10.5% during the recession in 2009.”

If that is what you think, #pogson, it is easy to see where you can get your odd ideas about the world.

I have no problem with the page loads with better computers either, #pogson, just on the Atom powered machine. I suspect that if/when anyone using one of your future ARM machines shows up, they will have an even greater problem, but that is your problem not mine. Ignore it as you wish.

I have never seen a business that didn’t shuffle tons of paper. In my own lab, I encourage paperlessness but still paper needs/wants to be printed. Paper is a valuable commodity. The US alone produced/consumed 79 million tons in 2009. In 1997 the number was 44million tons of which 26 was for printing/writing.

The corporate world is a minority consumer of IT.

I have no problems with the page loads. Perhaps you should switch to GNU/Linux or visit other sites.

You only think that you do, #pogson. You are dismissive of the hundreds of millions of what have come to be known as “information workers” who you suggest merely “shuffle paper” and answer telephones. It seems to have escaped your notice that there is a distint absence of paper on their desks and they are creating and editing documents in a collaborative manner using their Windows PC. Otherwise you would never suggest that they could simply replace their PC with a cell phone, even augmented with a keyboard, mouse, and large monitor.

In addition to their actual work assignment, their days are dependent on their Outlook connection to Exchange for mail, meetings, and other work scheduling functions. You don’t live in the real corporate world, #pogson, and what you get from using your imagination is a very wrong picture.

“I have a 1.6 gHz dual-core CPU at the moment.”

Well check back when you are using one of those ARM based peanut whistles instead. That is the point, after all. Right now I am using my Acer Aspire One netbook out on the patio because I am too lazy to go upstairs and get my laptop.

BTW,I continue to notice that the page reload for your site is a real PITA with the PlusOne stuff enabled. When the page is reloaded, the masthead and first article are dispplayed fairly quickly, but then the CPU usage slams to 100% for over 10 seconds before the PlusOne icons pop up and the3 wait cursor disappears. That is a lot less, only about a second, for my laptop or desktop. Something is CPU bound in there and it is obnoxious with my netbook. The same thing happens with Chrome used as a browser.

Maybe it is just me, but it didn’t happen prior to the PlusOne addition.

I read and write for about 7h a day and I use huge bandwidth personally. I do a lot more with a PC than most people do. They have not the time or inclination even if they have a job. Most people who have jobs do use a computer for some but not all the tasks. They handle real, not virtual, products or they shuffle paper or answer telephones. I do just about everything with a PC from 0600 to around noon and then from around 2 to 4pm. During that time I read dozens of articles, write a few and look for positions. My resume is so polished it shines… I have a 1.6 gHz dual-core CPU at the moment. When Beast gets back on the air it will be quad-core 2.5gHz. That’s far more than I need but I can serve many users on thin clients if I had thin clients set up. Some of the smart phones clearly match or exceed my current specs but Beast was intended to be a school-sized server. I could leave him off but I want to play with virtual machines and Beast loves them.

How about yourself, #pogson? You do not have a job that involves using a computer to process information, such as most office workers have. So do you think that you would be happy with a PIII or phone in lieu of whatever you are now using? I doubt it, but go ahead and tell us.

“I would recommend GNU/Linux …”

Well, we all know that YOU would do that, #pogson, but there isn’t anyone who makes one of these things who agrees with you. They use Android and don’t even mention the word “Linux”.

“One does not assume a child molester will become a saint.”

That tickled a memory, #pogson. It seems that child molesters may not become saints, but they are supported by the FOSS guru Stallman. See your own blog threads:

http://mrpogson.com/2011/06/17/freedom-does-matter/

XP is irrelevant. M$ is the problem, not their current release. One does not assume a child molester will become a saint.