Maybe most people who read my blog are Microsoft haters (which would be especially ironic, since I get paid based on my skills with Microsoft products). Or maybe many of them are sufficiently technically adept and iconoclastic to rely to some significant degree on non-Microsoft browsers and operating systems. Or maybe the majority of my visitors somehow and for some reason mask the fact that they're using Microsoft products. Or maybe my hosting company's statistic programs frequently get confused about my visitors' browsing tools. Or maybe most of my visits are various RSS readers (which I'm guessing would show up as unknown browsers using unknown operating systems) checking for updates. Who knows?

But there's no denying the fact that, over the past month, 57.3% of the visits to my site have used an unknown browser, and 46.5% use an unknown operating system. By contrast, 21.5% of my visits have been through a Netscape browser (I assume that really means Mozilla, which would include Firefox) and 21.0% have been through IE (as a point of interest, 0.1% used Opera). On the other hand, 45.3% of my visits have originated from various flavors of Windows platforms, while other identified platforms such as Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, each hit somewhere under 5% and in many cases under 1%.

I don't understand it, but I just thought I'd share.