Accounting for the 9.6%:<p>1. 3.0% - IE at day job<p>2. 3.0% - Modified User Agent string<p>3. 3.0% - IE Tab in FF<p>4. 0.6% - Just for the irony of it
I know I accidentally loaded YC News with IETab a couple times (have it installed in Firefox for browser testing). So those stats are definitely inflated... <i>chuckles</i>
Thanks for the stats! Very interesting indeed. Most people here are technology trend-setters and are influencers. Usually, you can forecast what people will use in the next few years by looking at what "alpha geeks" use today (Tim O'Reilly's term).<p><a href="http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail716.html" rel="nofollow">http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail716.html</a>
Guilty as charged. I was a Vista early adopter (need it for dogfooding at work), and back when Firefox was doggedly slow in Vista, I went with IE and never switched back. IE7 isn't too bad.<p>I realize making Firefox slow on Vista was probably not a deliberate marketing decision by Microsoft, but it certainly worked on me.
I'm currently using a laptop with Windows XP, because it isn't mine - if it were, it would have some Linux distro. But I do run a virtual machine with Ubuntu installed. Do I count as Linux or Windows?