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How Company Employees Use The Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-keeping-track-of-the-competition-sir dept.

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."

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  1. IBM employees by tjwhaynes · · Score: 5, Informative
    And IBM is using Windows exclusively?

    Well, only if myself, about half of my immediate colleagues, the Linux Technology Center people, all the people on the internal linux mailing lists and probably quite a few others don't count :-)

    Given that one data point looks a bit borked, I'm wondering about the rest of the data...

    Cheers,
    Toby Haynes

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  2. Re:What a shock... by Atrax · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am very doubtful that Microsoft gives its employees much freedom, if any, to install the software of their choice.

    Actually, pretty much all MS employees are admins on their own machines, and aren't particularly heavily restricted on what they can install, as long as it's legal and licenced.

    P2P apps and their ilk are restricted, as well as most other stuff at the dodgy end of the spectrum, but no-one's formally restricted on what browser they can install. Except of course for the fact that intranet sites use windows integrated auth, and will tend to break in non-IE

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  3. Mirrors Here by Kinetic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like their server is clobbered. MirrorDot has the mirrors.

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