This is What Steam Gamers Have Installed on PC
A lot of BitTorrent users on the legit gamer's gaming service.
As part of its information gathering, Valve has compiled and published the opt-in survey results from Windows users of what sort of software they have installed on their gaming machines.
Steam, naturally, was installed on 100 percent of the machines. Adobe Flash was close with being installed on 96.79 percent of the machines. Then the third most popular software was Adobe Acrobat at 73.18 percent.
Firefox is the clear alternative browser of choice, as it was on 63.05 percent of machines. Chrome, on the other hand, was on 11.56 percent.
Various Microsoft software make up much of the top parts of the list, such as Office, Silverlight, Live Messenger, Games for Windows, and Windows Media Player.
QuickTime was on 43.95 percent, while Skype was on 41.75 percent of PCs.
It also seems that a third of gamers are also BitTorrent users. By far the most popular BitTorrent client is µTorrent at 29.41 percent of machines. The official BitTorrent client has 5.28 percent and BitComet held 2.44 percent.
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Whats the point of including Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer when they are part of the Windows OS.
And yes
Installed not Used
Why would you install software that you don't use anyways?
Whats the point of including Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer when they are part of the Windows OS.And yes Installed not Used
Steam runs on mac's now. You can also uninstall both Windows Media player and Internet Explorer.
Wether this detection would detect IE as fully uninstalled, since it is integral to the operation of the system i do not know.
i'm surprised more people don't use foxit reader instead of adobe acrobat
[citation]A lot of BitTorrent users on the legit gamer's gaming service.[/citation]
Maybe I'm just being touchy, but the implication of that subtitle is that BitTorrent users aren't legit. There are many legit uses of BitTorrent: downloading Linux ISOs for instance.
I have both BitTorrent and Steam on my machine and I don't use BitTorrent for any nefarious freetard activities, so please don't tar all BitTorrent users with the same brush - implied or otherwise.
Wether this detection would detect IE as fully uninstalled, since it is integral to the operation of the system i do not know.
I know Steam runs on Mac now but the survey was made for Windows users .
PROOF :
For the second part, maybe you are correct and but In WIN Vista and 7 you cannot unnistall WMP and IE( not counting the disabling in Win7 ). For Win XP I'm not sure.
Can anyone clear this up??
I suspect it only detects what's in "add and remove programs", since IE only shows up there if you have updated it, so if you have XP with IE6 it would not be counted.
@indran1412. My Bad, Sorry, didnt notice its Windows users only.
But anywho. only 30% of windows users are listed as having IE installed, or there abouts. You can uninstall WMP if you want. Wether this removes the files I don't know.
[citation]Maybe I'm just being touchy, but the implication of that subtitle is that BitTorrent users aren't legit. [/citation]
It's a generalization but I think we can all agree that the majority, most likely a vast one, downloads copyrighted material and IP without paying or without any intention of paying for it. The title doesn't need to imply it, it's sorta generally accepted nowadays.
As for IE stats: 30% of browser usage is an IE version, I'm not sure where you got only 30% of windows users have it installed. Something like 70%+ have .NET installed but likely never use it or apps that require it. I'm sure the number is much higher, they simply don't use it to surf the web.
i'm surprised more people don't use foxit reader instead of adobe acrobat
Yeah, Foxit Reader deserves more users...
agreed, foxit is sweet, only annoys me that it doesn't open directly in chrome like acrobat does when I click on pdf's but it runs a LOT better on my netbook then acrobat so I can live with that