Business PC Users Admit to Storing Multimedia for Personal Use

In-Stat: Personal multimedia content holds a place within the US business user’s work computer, even among senior-level staff. The survey was aimed at determining what computer form factors and configurations businesspeople are using, in order to draw conclusions about how computers are being employed in relation to media content. Overall, it is important to remember that businesses act differently in their consumption of computing devices. For example, 23% of respondents continue to use legacy OSs (Windows 2000 and older), which has important implications with the looming introduction of Vista. . It is equally important to note the business users do not always limit their usage of business computers to ‘business content.’

• Executive/Manager respondents had the greatest penchant to use Mobile Computers.

• Roughly 35% of business respondents store songs on their business PCs.

• IT/Tech personnel were more likely to store audio, video, and image content on their work computers than other categories of workers, and coincidentally, had significantly larger hard drive capacities on average.

• Surprisingly, those who identified themselves as engineers had computing devices that tended to mirror the average business user.

US Business PC Profile: Business Survey Characterizes the Installed BasePubl 20060612