Coincidence? I think not. 🙂
Tag: Microsoft
Ever heard of the MSDN Academic Alliance? I never have until I took a class at the local college. Apparently everyone who takes any sort of Computer Science class gets enrolled in this Microsoft program at this institution.
Check this out:
That’s the list in it’s entirety that I can download for free from my school. I ran some numbers, and the retail value of all of that is more than $20,000! That’s more than I’ve spent on tuition so far.
Ridiculous! 20 Grand worth of software and I can’t even use it… I would need to buy another computer to make use of this stuff, and the girlfriend probably wouldn’t approve of that.
I’ve gone though my website logs to see just what kind of visitors I’ve had in the last few days. I’ve received well over 2000 page views over the entirety of my blog, with a majority of those being referred from the Linux section in Digg, where I submit most of my articles.
But this part is what is so puzzling – 46% of unique visitors to my website in the past few days are using Windows. It goes something like this:
1. Windows 46.10% 
2. Linux 44.96%
3. Macintosh 7.23%
4. Other 1.71%
“Interesting information,” you’re saying, “but why do I care?” I’ll tell you why. I only write about Linux here.
However, Internet Explorer users alone account for 300% more traffic than any of the other browsers. That’s a aneurysm waiting to happen for Microsoft!