[Sigia-l] Flash 7 only on 76% computers (was: MacromediaFlashpaper...)

[Manu Sharma]

David:
> It isn't that hard.  The last stats I saw were that only 56% of
Windows
> users had Windows XP.

According to one site [1] the share of internet users on Win OSes for
Dec 2004 is: Win XP 59.8 + Win 2000 23.5 + Win 98 5.4 + Win NT 1.1 =
Ttl - 90%

> Many are on earlier versions and may well not have a working version
of WMP.

I'm on Win 98 and my WMP works fine for http://music.msn.com [which
requires at least version7]

> Further, the test, whether it is your preferred
> methodology or not, tests whether a viewer can actually experience
content
> with a given player (Flash, QT, Windows Media, Acrobat, etc), not
whether it
> is "installed". As we all know, none of our software always works as
> expected, and it is certainly possible that some folks have something
> "installed" but it isn't actually working as expected.

I agree but don't think that would account for such a huge discrepency
[40%].

Manu.

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp Scroll down
for OS stats