The first of Valveās new software survey results are in, and they provide a fascinating insight into the kind of crap the serviceās users have installed on their PCs.
The companyās surveys have long been a great source of general information on whatās popular amongst hardcore PC gamers on the hardware side of things, but the July 2010 results for the first time also show what kinds of software these gamers have installed on their computers.
Steam, obviously, is installed on 100% of computers, what with it being mandatory to access Steam. But after that the commonality of programs drops off remarkably. Only 96.79% of users have Flash, where youād expect that to be 100%, while the next most popular piece of software was Adobeās PDF reader Acrobat at 73.18%.
Firefox is king of the browsers at 63.05%, WinRAR is the most popular archiving tool at 45.28% and Microsoft will be pleased that its Flash competitor, Silverlight, is installed on 53.13% of responding userās PCs.
On the surprising side, nearly 70% of users donāt have iTunes installed, over 70% of donāt have ĀµTorrent installed, and chat program Xfire had penetration of only 10.54%.
You can see the full software results alongside Valveās regular hardware results at the link below. Mac users note, theyāre PC-only at the moment, with Mac survey results ācoming soonā.
