After two weeks and more than 21,000 visits to the web site, the survey only produced 225 responses (thank you to those who filled out the survey). I hoped to amass at least 1000 responses, but it was still an interesting experiment. The Google Web Form attached to Google Documents worked simply and flawlessly.
The survey will remain open and you can access it by clicking here. Google Docs automatically generated the results below, but any Excel or database guru out there that wants to take a look at the raw data and shoot me back some more detailed results correlating operating systems, RAM, etc, feel free! The spreadsheet is attached below the article.
UPDATE: Jason H. took the challenge and came up with some great statistical data from this little project. View or download his analysis below in the attachments. Thanks Jason!

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this is nice to have an idea of what people are using, but how about some bivariate analysis? it doesn’t do much good to know what’s being used but how it all relates to each other.
I totally agree. Unfortunately, I’m not a statistics or spreadsheet guru, so I’m hoping someone will take the data and run with it for us!
I have some data analysed in SPSS format, i can export as jpeg or pdf. in a few days i can have it published to my website if that an easier way to share it.
Thanks! You can email me the files to: questions at helpmerick dot com
Thanks again, I look forward to seeing what you came up with from the data. What is SPSS format by the way?
SPSS is my favoured statistics program and it outputs tables (pivot tables at that) and posts them in an output .spo file. i don’t think it can be read by anything else but the tables can be copied as .jpg and i’ll have that soon. i had to take some liberties with the numbers in order to analyse them though.
I appreciate you taking up the project…and I perfectly understand about the liberties because of the simple questions on the form. Thanks!