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Steam Hardware Survey: More than 68 percent of PC gamers running Windows XP
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 —
... , the game company's online PC games distribution platform, which boasts 15 million+ accounts globally. Today, the company relaunched a public results report from the Steam Hardware Survey and the top operating system is Windows XP 32 bit, which was running 68.7 percent of the computers surveyed in November. ...
Steam Hardware Surveys Relaunched, Makes You Smarter [Valve]
Kotaku —
... months of data on CPU, GPU and DirectX usage published in handy, easy-to-read pie and line chart formats. Normally, we wouldn't be that jazzed to poke through operating system ratios, but thanks to the nicely constructed aggregation of data, we can't stop wondering things like "I wonder what the most popular multi-monitor desktop resolution is?" With some 8 million computers surveyed over the course of 4-plus years, we'd say its a pretty solid indicator of who's doin' what out there. Steam Hardware Survey [Steam]
Gamers Sticking With XP, Searching For Wii
WebProNews Feed —
... Ownership and search stats declare clear winners Go to a retailer like Target early some morning, and you'll likely find a group of non-employees waiting to be let in. When the doors open, a race to the electronics department ensues, and the cashiers get busy. So since gamers are so willing to spend money, two new reports take a look at where their interests lie. Let's talk about in-use operating systems first. According to Steam's latest monthly hardware survey , XP dominates. Its market share, though down a bit since October, remains more than twice the size of what ...
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Malware Protection
AppleInsider —
... malware payloads. Most of the iceberg is under water Microsoft's installed base of a billion Windows PCs is a fertile base for spammers and identity thieves to set up their virus-distributed operations. While Microsoft has invested heavily in securing Windows Vista/7, adoption of modern versions of Windows is very low. This has severely diluted the billions Microsoft has invested over the past decade to fix Window's show stopper security problems. As noted earlier, even among big spending gamers with higher-end PCs, Vista's penetration has only reached a weak 36% after ...
From its glass house, Nvidia throws stones at AMD over Windows 7 support.
Crave: The gadget blog —
... own 3D cards, but also from its investment CUDA, Nvidia's own GPU computing standard. If you believe that the fact that AMD's older cards lack this capability, you obviously find GPU computing, and by association CUDA, important. For some commercial-level users it might be, and adoption on the consumer level is growing, but it hasn't quite achieved critical feature status yet. Raw numbers for affected customers are also hard to come by on this issue, but we can use Valve Software's Steam Hardware Survey to get an idea of the percentages. If you're unfamiliar, the Steam ...
