What percent of normal people have the .net framework installed?

It's very hard to get a straight answer on this. And if you mine the stats of a Microsoft related website like this one, you'll get a very skewed answer.

Well a friend gave me some stats about his website, which is a non-technical site, dealing with the 'talent' industry. I think these stats will be closer to 'normal' people than stats I've seen previously ;-)

.NET CLR 1.0.3705	4.44%	(2083 people)
.NET CLR 1.1.1432	0.01%	(6 people)
.NET CLR 1.1.4322	41.70%	(19586 people)
.NET CLR 2.0.40607	0.01%	(5 people)
.NET CLR 2.0.50215	0.00%	(2 people)
.NET CLR 2.0.50727	11.02%	(5175 people)
.NET CLR 3.0.04320	0.04%	(20 people)
.NET CLR 3.0.04324.17	0.01%	(3 people)
.NET CLR 3.0.04506	0.00%	(1 people)
.NET CLR 3.0.04506.30	0.01%	(6 people)
WinFX RunTime 3.0.50727	0.03%	(13 people)
Total 46,967 people

The Micro-ISV articles will begin soon -- near the end of next week hopefully. Lots of material put together already, just some deals to sign off first ;-)

The hard bit is working out what to leave out. But hey, that's what good design is all about.

'Paul' on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:47:54 GMT, sez:

Interesting stats… they do seem more "average" than using a geek site. One of the things that concerns me with product deployment in the public eye is the user having to install the .Net framework first. I guess its more of an issue if they have any errors, rare but I have seen it... I would hate that sort of negative experience to influence their perception of my software!

'Stucko' on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:38:02 GMT, sez:

So How many people had neither installed?

No .net Framework at all?

Thats a crucial statistic.

'Douglas Stockwell' on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:46:23 GMT, sez:

I assume these statistics were gathered from user-agent strings? Another thing to consider is that browsers other than IE will not report the framework version.

But then again, how many "average" users don't actually use IE :)

'eBay Templates' on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:29:21 GMT, sez:

I find that now about 70% of my visitors are needing to install .Net 2.0. Traffic is mainly non-techie users.

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