Posted on 01/22/2017 6:23:39 PM PST by dayglored
The fate of Windows 10 lies in the hands of users that are still deeply in love with Windows 7.
This year's CES saw plenty of shiny new Windows 10 devices on display, from the acrobat Lenovo Yoga through to HP's all-in-one Sprout Pro.
Hardware like this will certainly boost the fortunes of Windows 10. Sleek new designs and form factors, and the rise of two-in-one devices like the Surface Pro that can function both as a PC and a tablet, are giving consumers and businesses a reason to invest in Microsoft's latest operating system.
And Windows 10 has made some decent inroads thus far: it now accounts for somewhere around a quarter of PCs accessing the internet as measured by NetMarketShare...
First, Windows XP usage hasn't changed very much at all as a result of the arrival of Windows 10. That's hardly surprising: Windows XP wasn't part of the free consumer upgrade programme that Microsoft offered. Windows XP is long, long past its sell-by date, and most of the hardware running XP is probably so old that is can't be upgraded anyway. If users are happy running such an antique and insecure operating system they'll probably keep using it until the hardware gives up or the Sun expands to finally vapourise the Earth, whichever is sooner.
Second, Microsoft did a good job encouraging people to move away from Windows 8...
But what about Windows 7? This is the big one, of course. Usage has decline according to the NetMarketShare data - from 61 percent to 48 percent over 18 months, which looks at first glance like a rapid decline.
But the big question for Microsoft is whether that erosion of Windows 7 usage will continue...
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I miss Windows 7 a lot. Had to get Windows 10 with my new computer purchase, and am not happy.
This happened to me, and I couldn't figure out where the heck all my pictures went. I was pissed. Thank goodness Microsoft gave me the option to go back to windows 7.
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Some people do really have to do work on their pc, and you sure can’t do that with win 10.
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Indeed. I fall into that camp.
I have been very much satisfied with Windows 7, and have no interest in upgrading / migrating to any other OS.
I understand that Microsoft Corp is trying to herd myself and other well satisfied users, onto a new pasture, more to their liking.
Guess what, MS...... I ain't interested, and if you keep pushing me, I'll migrate all the way over to Linux.
Leave me the F alone.
Ummm.... Watch little dancing tiles in your Start Menu? Give up a bunch of personalization options for the desktop? :-)
Frankly, the main thing Windows 10 offers that Windows 7 cannot is longevity. Win7 security updates will end in Jan 2020 -- that's only three years away. Windows 10 will continue to updated essentially forever, since "This is the last version of Windows" -- Microsoft.
I've gotten to the point (since the roll-out of Windows 10) that I don't trust ANY Microsoft updates.
I haven't allowed or downloaded a single one since the whole Win10 episode began.
Thanks a lot, Microsoft. Is this what you really want?
Didn’t we just upgrade to Win-7? LOL
I know that we’re working on compatibility issues, both hard and software - but mostly software. It cost us millions of dollars to upgrade non-compatible apps last time around and Win-10 is no different in that respect.
Our timeline is aggressive but we’re at least another year away from the first round of upgrades (we usually hit all the vanilla machines first to get a win on the board for management ;’}
Dude...... Italics or quotation marks, please.
I can’t tell where your remarks begin, and copypasta remarks end.
Hey just upgraded my PC from XP to Win7 and love it. No can do for win10 — no drivers. Win7 pro is supposed to be supported until 2020.
The German government has banned ALL Windows 10 operating systems from running on government computers.
Why do you think this is?
Hint. Windows 10 was created by Microsoft on the specific orders of Barry Soetoro to be used as a continuous 24 hour information gathering spy machine for the NSA. The moment Windows 10 is turned on, it begins sending messages to the mother ship in Redmond WA, and then from their to giant warehouse database servers in Utah.
They telemetry device driver cannot be turned off. EVER. It is hardwired right into the CPU and network card.
Windows 10 is what George Orwell warned about. It is big brother, right in your home.
If users are happy running such an antique and insecure operating system they'll probably keep using it until the hardware gives up or the Sun expands to finally vapourise the Earth, whichever is sooner. i have an XP box and a Win7 box, both have their purpose and yes i will run them both till the sun expands
Second, Microsoft did a good job encouraging people to move away from Windows 8... what, by releasing it??? nobody wanted it and they couldn't have make it any suckier if they tried
Windows 8 was such a fuctercluck that anyone on 7 is not going to go to 10 if they can keep running 7. It’s really that simple.
Windows 7 has been, still is, a good, steady workhorse, and especially so compared to that horror that was Windows 8.0 and 8.1, now allowed to sink into oblivion. Windows 10 was created to kind of putty over the deficiencies of Windows 8.0 and 8.1, and maybe, someday, when enough fixes are done, might actually be an improvement in relation to Windows 7. But today, if you get a new computer, that is what you get.
Shortly, Windows 7 will be forced into obsolescence, because Microsoft will cease to support it, and it joins the dustbin of history.
Thanks. I completely understand your comments (and quoted citations) now.
That’s one thing that has to stop happening, this forced obsolescence. Does not look like free market to me.
aka YANA :-)
lack of security updates are not the reason to give up an o/s that works for you.
I guess I must be in the minority. I’m running the 1607 build on 4 devices in my house...all of them over 5 years old. I’m quite satisfied with it. IMO, Win 10 performs better than Win7 on older hardware. All I’ve done is disabled Cortana & OneDrive, as well as created a fixed pagefile 1.5 times total memory. Since build 1607...I’ve also started using the Edge browser and find it to be much closer to the functionality of IE.
Like Adam and Eve in the Garden, Microsoft coveted the Apple.
They were intensely jealous of how Apple had been able to push everyone from their operating system onto their app store, exploit the move to mobile phone apps and harvest private user identity data without people noticing too much and getting bent out of shape.
They were already on thin ice, and their Windows 10 shenanigans frittered away what little trust they had left with consumers.
I’d bet their approach did a lot to spur people to look into Linux.
welcome
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