Poll, for those who dont live in the US..

Yes and yes.

 

Yes to both questions.

 

I don't consider myself as living in the US.. so yes and basically yes (not my kids but other people's kids).

 

For Canada it's yes and yes.

 

I was in Cairo, Egypt in 99, and every computer I used had windows. I even saw some computers using windows competely in Arabic.

 

Ryan,

TonyH responded for the UK, so I'll vouch for a coutry that most people have never even heard of (I lived there for a while).

The Republic of Kiribati in the Central Pacific predominantly uses Windows. I would say that few kids use PC's, but those that do would use Windows.

All the best
Jamie

 

When I was in Japan, ever computer I saw was running Windows.

 

Also, countries below as you would expect, from first hand experience...

Germany
Austria
Italy
France
Vatican City
Iceland
Turkey
South Africa
New Zealand

Sunny

 

I live in Singapore, and at the moment, I use a pure Win2k pro PC. I used to dual boot with various distros of Linux, but found that Linux was still too immature and unuser friendly for my liking.

My kid is 7 months old now, at the age where he just likes to bang the keyboard here and there. When he's older, I'll be giving him equal time on Linux, BSD or some other flavor of Unix, as well as Windows. Oh, and he'll also be learning programming at an early age, just like I did.

 

Yes and yes, though the next computer to arrive in our household will be a Mac.

 

Good to hear! My wife just got a Mac Mini - the $500 entry model, with free keyboard and mouse, and a 17" LCD flatscreen on sale for $159. (USD) She's very happy with it (and now that we each have our own Mac, so am I ).

Of course, maybe you're going for a big gun G5...

Turbo: my son is also 7 months, and he's always reaching for the keyboard, webcam, etc... we've been joking about when he's going to need his first computer. Maybe soon!

 

Yes and Yes for The Netherlands!!

 

yes/yes. although i would dearly love to use a mac, the incompatiblity makes it impossible

 

got my passport stamped by the Republic of Kiribati last year - beautiful place.

I'll add South Korea to the list of Windows. I'd bet 95% of the world is using Windows, legally or illegally.

 

Mac all the way. G5's with 30" screens in the office, 17" as well as 12" lap tops for my wife and me, latest iMacs for the kids (8 and 10), both in the Netherlands as well in the US

 

My dad has bought his first grandson one of those "My first computer" toys already. We're waiting for his first b'day to present it to him.

 

Love those deals in the States! $159 for a LCD? Crazy!

Nah, just a PowerBook G4 for us old folks. The Wintel machine will be handed off to the boy, since he's asking...

 

Yep, www.macmall.com

Any friends in Buffalo you could have it shipped to?

 

I think Windows is a global evil. When I lived in India we used Windows, funny since most programmers are from there you'd think they'd be using something better.