Windows Vista Penetration Slow

7/14/07

Windows Vista has been out for about 6 months now. Early testing revealed that SpamButcher suffered from a few cosmetic problems. All initial indications were that SpamButcher still worked fine as a spam solution, even though interface looked a little ugly.

In the last few releases we've finally prettied SpamButcher up to the point where it doesn't look completely amateurish on Vista.

To be honest we weren't in that huge a rush to fix the cosmetic problems. Why? Because as of early July 2007 virtually no one seems to be using Windows Vista.

Despite what Microsoft would like you to believe, proliferation of Windows Vista has been slow. How do we know this?

SpamButcher.com is a moderately high volume website. We get thousands of hits each day. What many users don't know is that each time they make a request to a web server, their browser passes along information about itself and the operating system it runs on.

These numbers of course could be skewed for any number of reasons. I also can't claim historical knowledge of what market share Windows XP or Windows 98 had achieved after just 6 months. Perhaps 4% is good?

One way or the other - you can probably understand why we've focused on updating the spam filters as opposed to making the product seamlessly blend with Microsoft's latest GUI tweaks.

(We more recently stumbled across and fixed some more elusive Vista oddities which we'll document in another article.)

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