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How Company Employees Use The Web
An anonymous reader submits "VisitorVille Intelligence has released information on how employees of several large companies use the web based on their monitoring of thousands of websites. Presumably using IP address blocks, they group company employees together to produce some interesting facts and figures: Microsoft employees use Google for their searches 66% of the time, but MSN Search only 20% of the time, and Firefox is their second most popular browser behind Internet Explorer 6's whopping 98.76% share. Google employees use Google as their search engine 100% of the time
and 21% use a Mozilla or Firefox browser. Apple employees like Google best and 68% use Safari.
91% of Internap employees use Mozilla or Firefox, Deutsche Telekom AG employees are the biggest users of Linux, and 39% of Sun Microsystems employees use SunOS. Other groups of interest to Slashdot readers include: The White House, the United Nations, The New York Times, Red Hat, and IBM."
85% of Slashdot users use windows, and 60% still use internet explorer.
97% of NY Times employees use this to log into the NY Times website
only 39% of Sun employees use Sun OS??? That seems awfully low to me. Granted, I am sure they do use Windows and Linux (at least their version) for various and sunder things around the office but 39%.....there is something very unusual about that.
If you can't preach to the choir there, how are you going to preach to the masses??
No trees were harmed in the composition of this; however, numerous electrons were inconvenienced.
...that 100% of Microsoft employees use sol.exe.
Electrons are free; it is moving them that becomes expensive.
Regarding White House internet usage, the number one browser used from the Oval Office itself is that of Xbox Live.
When approached for comment, President Bush stated that he likes to relieve his stress by, "blowing the shit out of my constituency on Halo 2."
Let me tell you about the years I spent working in a sausage factory...
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
But also imagine how fast it would be to have Google and its entire internet cache on your LAN?
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Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum.
You'd think that slashdot users, being nerds, would use Firefox...
Dude, you're so last millenium...
Being a countercurrent techno freak implies using unfashionable tools. With all the positive press OSS gets, nerd-chic these days is to use IE.
abuse Slashdot so that our IP gets banned. When we track down the little bastard that did this...
95% of dynamic websites crumble within the first 15 comments. 50% after subscriber 'preview'. 5% when Cmdr Taco tries to click on the link before posting the story. 3% when Cmdr Taco tries to click on the link before posting the story. 2% when Cmdr Taco tries to click on the link before posting the story. 0% for Timothy; he's too busy ranting about the latest threat to "our rights online" to check the links.
Please help metamoderate.
Yes, It would be a national security threat if terrorists knew "The White House" had cookies enabled and used IE.
Either that or they didnt want Bill Gates to know they were using *nix of some kind...
Just love that all 50 links in the submission are to the same /.ed server.
"Well, that link didn't work. Maybe this one..."
Wake up.
Firefox is their second most popular browser behind Internet Explorer 6's whopping 98.76% share.
:)
The second most popular behind 98.76%. Spin that any faster and you'd warp space-time.
The coolest voice ever.
You may wish to reconsider that statement in light of Microsoft's extensive and well-known policy of "eating their own dog food" :).
Nah. Microsoft employees use MSN search 99% of the time and Google 1% of the time. It's just that MSN search almost never finds anything useful so they don't click on the web sites found, hence nothing shows up in RefererLog files.
And 78.35% of statistics are fabricated.....
That 20% MSN search at Microsoft accounts for all the times Bill Gates or some other senior hovers over someones shoulder...
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Personally, I prefer emacs.
Being a countercurrent techno freak implies using unfashionable tools. With all the positive press OSS gets, nerd-chic these days is to use IE.
Or, with regarding security, I just like to say, "I use IE because I like a challenge..."
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Actually What I got was Dear Slashdotter,
/. effect has subsided. Here's the URL to bookmark: http://intelligence.visitorville.com
We're sorry we missed you.
In your infinite bounty, you have brought down our server.
Please check back once the
Thanks for your interest!
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https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
The only search engine they're using these days is Dice...
At the bottom of the endless pile of paper work which characterizes all regulation lies a gun.
Alan Greenspan
Amen!
I use IE 5.01 from the original Win2k install (SPnone) with no security updates and:
A: Can't use the web worth shit.
B: Have lots of data for my upcoming book "How long does it take spyware to use 100% of my cpu 24x7" book.
Read my sig.
"Piter, too, is dead."
I think you mean:
Proverbs 26:11
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
I used Firefox exclusively at MS. And I didn't try to hide it. Most MS people just kinda shrug about IE's problems. "Let some guy in India fix it"
While I was working with a network admin at a local highschool, the entire district got banned from Slashdot for "abuse" that appeared we were trying to dos them or somesuch. Of course we just assumed it was the district, but as it turned out, all the schools in the province are connected to a massive network that provides bandwidth for every school. So every school in the province got banned, that's thousands of IT workers and whoever the heck knows how many geeky kids who were suddenly greated with a big red screen. It took a few emails to slashdot to finally get them to unblock it, and the problem as it turned out was some kind of a router looping explosion thing. Sorry, boring story and I forgot the details. And the point. But I got this far, so *submit button*
It's because even though they told the president he had a laptop, it was really an etch-a-sketch. It came with easier instructions:
Mr. President, if your laptop gets mess-i-fied or subliminalated hold it upside down and shake to reboot.
Sig (appended to the end of comments you post, 120 chars)
:) so dumm war ich dann doch nich, darin zu investieren.
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hey, but tell me a german ISP who gives you hints how to set up your MTA, and their only comment at the end of the FAQ is "if you screw up, well kick you out". treasure that.
I stopped using HotBot because the 'T' key is next to the 'Y' key. Shucks, boss, I swear it was a typo.
New poll idea:
Is it possible for MirrorDot.com to be any uglier?
- Yes
- No
- Only if someone pukes on your monitor while you're reading it
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
Perhaps Google's coming out with their own branded browser. Those clever tricksters, can't hide from us!
Okay, so how many slashdotters remember when alta vista was just a dgital subdomain?
WTF is "Digital"?
Visual inspection of senior West Wing staffers shows that a high proportion of them run OSX laptops.
The only thing you can accurately describe as "Scotch" is a sticky tape made by 3M. And it's
You guys should try out Unknown! It rocks! I've been running it on my Unknown Unix System for about a month and I'm very pleased with it's performance. Best part, absolutely NO EXPLOITS!
> FreeBSD - 0.5%
Your logs confirm it: FreeBSD is dying
BoD