Posted on 10/05/2015 9:17:17 PM PDT by dayglored
Windows 10 looks to have won about seven per cent of the world's desktop operating system market.
That's The Reg's back-of-the-spreadsheet calculation after running our eye over September’s data from Netmarketshare and StatCounter, the two services we regularly eyeball to see what's going down on the desktop.
Remember that Windows 10 launched on July 29th. With that in mind we can see that August saw plenty of growth, but things slowed rather markedly in September. The losers are Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, as the graphs below show both have dipped markedly since Windows 10's debut.
When we crunch the ratings companies' numbers we find Windows 7 is down about an average of four per cent and Windows 8.1 is down around two, results that neatly match the Windows 10 result.
Adding another one per cent market share during September is no mean feat: any company that achieved that outcome over a single month would be proud of the outcome.
Is Microsoft? The company always finds a reason to talk up a Windows launch, so in public it will be saying everything's gone just swimmingly. The Reg suspects it's not a stellar launch. Windows 8.1 did not, by all accounts, win many friends in business... yet the majority of Windows 8.1 users have stuck with the old, frustrating, operating system, despite Windows 10 being free. Why?
Windows 7, meanwhile, is stable and doesn't need to be replaced in a hurry on the business desktop, no matter what Microsoft might say about Windows 10's magical empowerment powers. Might the mess of Windows 8.x's interface be deterring the rump of Windows 7 users from going anywhere near a tiled interface?
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Same here.
Why be a free beta tester?
Windows iterations always need lots of tweaking.
Probably Windows 7 may be your last update and a good thing. It is not only the impatient but the experimental that tend to lead the charge. In this case, it may be the impatient or the ignorant. Keep trucking on...
Well, and that’s BEFORE you factor in all the nanny/spyware aspects of WX.
Exactly!!
Not on a bet.
:)
I installed it yesterday. I haven’t any real complaints about the OS itself, but I absolutely HATE with all my soul what they did to the browser!
Slow, clunky, buggy as all get out, and it freezes constantly when watching video.
Oh, and it dumped all my bookmarks somehow. Yay.
I had a hunch. :-)
Why, yes.
And the old, if it ain't broke..........
Well, it is good to try new things but always be able to regress otherwise your will put yourself into the hands of Microsoft...heh.
still have Windows 7. When I heard no more solitair on Windows 10 decided not to upgrade...
If you are going to remain in the Windows family of operating systems, then you will eventually need to have a supported operating system; if you are going to use an alternative operating system then just use it and stop blustering - eventually the lack of corporate support for older versions of Windows will dictate you get up to date and and upgrade or move to a different operating system.
Of course the FIRST thing I did when I fired it up was to install Classic Shell to get rid of the stupid interface.....
Windows 7 is fully supported with security updates until 2020. (Feature updates stopped a little while ago.)
A lot of people with Win7 are taking a wait-and-see attitude on Win 10 because it might morph a LOT between now and 2020. Might get better, might not.
A lot of people are gonna use those 5 years to migrate to another non-Windows OS, as you say. Linux is improving, OS X is doing its thing...
And a lot of people will trade in their Win 7 system for a mobile of some kind and forget the desktop/laptop entirely.
There's no rush for any of those decisions. Not yet, anyway.
I am using edge as we speak...It's nifty fast! Quicker than any browser I have tested.
Flash is integrated in the same way as Chrome is, so I don't understand your issues with video.
If you are running a separate anti-virus/anti malware application, it could be that. Edge was really designed around Microsoft's security AV/Malware/firewall....I have found that some other apps are not working well with 10, and require the vendor to do a little more tweaking.
I did have some issues with a video card....Nvidia GeForce. The updated 10 drivers did not mesh well with my older original Dell Vista desktop. Something to do with the fact that it has a original Intel chipped video card built into the mother board and the new driver tries to default to it..so I solved that by forcing it to use a older driver that has always worked fine on my system.
Other than that, I really like it and how it syncs with all my other computers.
The way I see it....If you liked 7, you should love 10.
For a desktop without a touch screen, you don’t use the tiled interface or need it.
The interface is very little changed from 7...same controls but they are better and you might find all your management tools are accessible in a slightly different way but they are all there. Even the control panel.
I notice you left out the red-headed bastard - Windows ME...which I still have on a laptop...somewhere in the attic.
It said it wanted an id and logon, but then gave me the items I wanted anyway when I wouldn't do that.
+1.
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