Theres a new poll up today, "What office suite do you use?" a lot of us use different tools for different jobs, if you do graphic design work chances are you use Photoshop, but in the world of office suites things can be a bit less clean cut, in an age where inter-operability is key, file format support can make or break and application, and as such you find market leaders such as Photoshop and MS Office set the file format trends.
You may be thinking well how it it less clean cut in Office Suites, you just said MS Office is the defracto standard, well Microsoft in Office 2007 for Windows, changed to an XML based format from it's old binary format, and as such not all versions of MS Office are compatible, v.X & 2004 don't support the format natively, how ever Apple iWork '08 does.
So if you could complete the poll, so we can see what people use in general.
Previous Poll Results:
143 People Voted:
Mac OS X 10.5 = 59.4% (85)
Mac OS X 10.4 = 29.4% (42)
Mac OS X 10.3 = 1.4% (2)
Mac OS X 10.2 = 1.4% (2)
Mac OS X 10 / 10.1 = 0% (0)
Mac OS 9 (or Below) = 4.9% (7)
What's Mac OS? = 3.5% (5)
So, 91.6% of people that voted use Mac OS X, and 4.9% use OS 9 or below, while 3.5% of users apparently haven't heard of Mac OS.
So here's the averages:
Mode: Mac OS X 10.5
Mean: Mac OS X 10.5
Medium: Mac OS X 10.5
At the end of the day, these stats don't reflect real world distributions of users across Mac OS X, they only provide a snippet of the people who've visited this website.