Window 7 early adopters survey: just 14 percent are business users
- Prior to using Windows 7, 46 percent of respondents ran Windows Vista, 32 percent ran Windows XP. 17 percent ran Vista and XP about equally, 5 percent ran an OS other than Windows, and a whopping 0.7 percent used a version of Windows other than Vista or XP.
- 73 percent upgraded an existing PC to the final version of Windows 7, while 8 percent are running it on a PC that came with the OS pre-installed. 14 percent are still using a pre-release version, and 6 percent are running it on a Mac via Boot Camp or a virtualisation program.
- 64 percent of respondents rate themselves as expert Windows users; 35 percent say they're intermediate ones. Less than 1 percent call themselves beginners.
- 61 percent are using Windows 7 entirely or mostly for home/personal use. 25 percent are using it about equally for home/personal and business use. Just 14 percent are using it entirely or mostly for business use.
- 61 percent are using a 64bit edition of Windows 7 and 31 percent are running a 32-bit version.
- 82 percent did a 'clean' install of the OS from scratch; 19 percent installed it over Windows Vista.
- 59 percent say they've used Windows 7 extensively, and 36 percent say they've done so a fair amount
- . Just 5 percent say they've used it just a little so far.
Read full survey at PC Advisor