what percentage of machines have the framework installed?

[thomasamillergoogle]

I am going to be distributing a shareware application soon and would
like to know what percentage of MS OS machines have the framework
installed.

I have looked in multiple places (google, netcraft), etc and have not
found any numbers. Please advise.

 

[Guest]

You need to have your installer check for this. AFAIK,
there are no numbers and they would be meaningless if
anyone DID publish them.

 

[thomasamillergoogle]

I realize that my installer will need to detect this. I already have
that working.

I am just *curious* if anyone knows what percentage of MS machines have
the framework installed.

This is a very nice thing to know as the percentage helps developers
decide what language a program is going to be written in. Most
developers are not willing to write a program in dot net because the
runtime is so big. Not everybody wants to make users dowload a 26mb
runtime, so they are sticking with other languages until a high
percentage of machines already have the runtime installed. Make sense?