News Top 10 downloads of past decade

So, it's not entirely accurate is it? I mean, how many people here downloaded the Paris Hilton sex tape? I dont mean to be crude, i mean to be honest

Im supprised firefox is up there so soon though if it's the last decade.

 

Yea i was just as surprised about iTunes. I'm yet to actually see a PC with it on it.

 

who the hell ever used realplayer... one piece of software that will NEVER be on my pc.

 

1995 there weren't all that many people downloading, so the last few years will swing the voting, and especially since broadband introduction.

But I think they've just done some categories, like top browser, top spyware remover, top p2p, etc. Some of the rivals to the 'winners' must beat Firefox's claimed 50M+ world-wide by a streak.

Morpheus - 135.2M
iMesh - 96.6M
Limewire - 61.9M
Spybot - 59.6M

Unfortunately, the BBC video stuff is all Real and the Real Alternative has problems. But the Real Enterprise version can be made no-phone-home easy.

 

fair bit of bbc stuff is in wmv now
i dont even bother to install real alternative, if something is in realmedia i wont even bother to try and play it

 

Problem to real is that it's a bloated clunky piece of *****.

 

*possibly*

But then again, Firefox have been claiming the same 65m+ users for a while now, and surely tens of thousands minimum would see the light each day. Also consider that our logs show over a dozen different versions of Firefox - there's all the betas and then 4 further revisions after 1.0 came out. IMO most people keep their chosen browser up to date - especially if the software informs them of a newer version - so you're talking up to 65m people downloading 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 etc - that all adds up...

 

"who the hell ever used realplayer... one piece of software that will NEVER be on my pc."
It is an amazing software and could be very great. There are few problems with it but there are also important advantages over other players. You would be amazed how many PC's has RealPlayer installed on them.

 

Im never ever EVER installing real-anything on my PC, except the alternative. My dad uses it for BBC but it installs a whole pile of ******** with itself and i cant get rid of any of it :/

 

Aye - RealPlayer has been blacklisted from my PC for years for that very reason. I find most streaming media useless anyway, so I either find a download link, stream in WMV or go without - no video would be work installing that horrid garbage

 

I wonder why people behind RealPlayer do this? Do they hate the software they're making or do they make more money from having so many ads instead of more users... hmmm