Statistics on people who install Linux and then revert to Windows?

Question

Anyone know of any figures on people who try Linux, then go back to microsoft?

Please answer if you are aware of a link to a relevant reference.

Answer 1

I am not aware of any official figures, however since the release of the likes of the Wubi installer http://wubi-installer.org/  many more people are quite happy using Linux alongside Windows. Its unfortunate that this feature at present is only offered for Ubuntu. Hopefully in time there will be a Wubi like installer for other distros.

To return to your original question I think it would be more interesting to know the statistics of people who try Linux and not go back to Microsoft. I somehow think the numbers would be surprisingly healthy.

LUg.

Answer 2

I do not have a link to propose, but such  a statistic (if one existed anyway) would be inaccurate.

My counter question is : Based on what official stats would anyone create such a report?

Come to think about it, I do have a link : www.microsoft.com.

Its for real i am telling you!

Gates, Balmer and Co.

I bet they have downloaded at least Ubuntu, Mandriva and Suse Linux, used them, got a few ideas about how a real OS shoudl be handling things and then run to implement the OSS ideas into Windoz.