Net Applications uses software sensors at 40,000 Web sites around the world to measure traffic and come up with its stats. These stats include operating system, browser, IP address, domain host, language, screen resolution, and a referring search engine, according to Vince Vizzaccaro, executive vice president of marketing and strategic alliances for Net Applications.
However, Net Applications noticed something unusual with stats from Google.com, which would represent Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) employees, not the public at large that use its search engine. Two-thirds of the visitors from Google.com did not hide what operating system they were running, which Net Applications recorded in its survey.
One-third, however, were unrecognized even though Net Applications' sensors can detect all major operating systems including most flavors of Unix and Linux. Even Microsoft's new Windows 7, which is deployed internally at Microsoft headquarters, would show up by its identifier string. But the Google operating systems were specifically blocked.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth continues to chart among NPD best sellers, while Helldivers 2 stays above COD: MW3 in Year-to-Date sales revenue.
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Good to see ff7 performing 🏆
HD2 smashing records! I hope it motivates other studios to bring on some decent similar games.
Also miss some good FPS
Okay. NOW can we stop with the whole 'Rebirth was a flop' chatter? Still selling remarkably well after two months.
It might have had a lower out of the gate sales than the first one, but kind of makes sense considering how front loaded I'm sure that one must have been, the anticipation was through the roof after many years and many teases of an actual remake.
This one will have long legs, I'm sure of it.
It's not a flop but Square isn't celebrating its sales one bit, and DD2 launched nearly a month later but outsold it immediately in the US. Who would've predicted that two months ago?
If you're Square, you're panicking, and that's why we got the news yesterday of them changing their approach to development.
Square traditionally has insane sales expectations. How will releasing this on XBOX that has moved so little consoles and historically moves so little Square titles help this game's sales?
There seems to be a deliberate dialogue that is trying to be spread that this game is a conmercial failure. Articles like these prove otherwise.
And by the way the third game will also be Sony console exclusive, this was confirmed already. I will be buying a PS6 for that.
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I hope so. Ms needs some competition to get their creative juices flowing. They've had a monopoly for too long.
Internally Google employees use a custom Linux distro jokingly called "Goobuntu". We've known about that for some time now. The question is whether they ever plan to release a desktop version or if they're just going to wait it out and go completely web based.
It's already known that google has their own internal version of Linux that they use for various things. Not to mention this, but Google employees are allowed to use any OS they want, so who's to say 1/3 of the employees aren't just a little bit paranoid?
Or the most likely explanation of them all - Google's main focus is crawling the web. They don't just do it for search, either, they do it for their targeted advertising and God knows what else. It's likely that all this traffic is simply coming via automated services Google is running.
I would probably pay cold hard cash to use a Google OS. That's how good their software is. Google's all about speed and efficiency, so I can imagine their OS (if they ever release it) running even faster than Linux (the fastest, smallest OS out there).
What a kick in the junk for microsoft. Personally would be great seeing a monopoly like Microsoft get shafted a bit. Google probably has a better chance than Apple and there annoying azz commercials. We get it, Microsoft has some problems.