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Because most of PCs are windows machines.

p(windows|vnc)=p(vnc|windows) * p(windows) / ( p(vnc|windows) * p(windows) + p(vnc|non-windows) * p(non-windows) )

Most of them are not VNC on Windows, but Windows in QEMU, which provides VNC access to the console.

The RDP server comes with Windows 7/8 Pro; home and other versions of Windows don't enable it.

RDP works a lot better in general, because you aren't limited to the screen resolution of the server system.

It's not possible to use IBM SPSS Statistics over an RDP connection without paying for a multi-user license, even if there is only one connected user.

my entire office uses vnc, reason is helpdesk sometimes needs to see what you're doing in order to help you. But you most definitely have to be on the network and we have a password, albeit very weak.