MS also does a dishonest thing in counting upgrade numbers that may not apply in this case. When they field a new OS nobody wants, they eventually relent and include rights to “downgrade” to a previous (and better) version. Witness Win8 and 7 install rights. And that does help move the systems and licenses. BUT....let’s say that someone’s offering a machine for which they bought a Win8 license, but which you’re willing to purchase because they’ve already “downgraded” it to Win7. It shows up, it has Win7, and you’re happy, but MicroTruth still counts that as a Win8 adoption, since it was theoretically a Win8 license they sold to the PC maker.
RE: MS also does a dishonest thing in counting upgrade numbers that may not apply in this case.
The only thing is this article cites a SURVEY of businesses. Unless those responding are mostly lying, I think the article is true regarding adoption rate.
“MS also does a dishonest thing in counting upgrade numbers that may not apply in this case. When they field a new OS nobody wants, they eventually relent and include rights to “downgrade†to a previous (and better) version. Witness Win8 and 7 install rights. And that does help move the systems and licenses. BUT....let’s say that someone’s offering a machine for which they bought a Win8 license, but which you’re willing to purchase because they’ve already “downgraded†it to Win7. It shows up, it has Win7, and you’re happy, but MicroTruth still counts that as a Win8 adoption, since it was theoretically a Win8 license they sold to the PC maker.”
No matter how many times this trope is trotted out, it never reflects reality.
If you were to add up all of the supposed stories of this, then 100% of people would still be using Windows 98.
The number of people that do this + the number of people that install it for “30 minutes” before going back to a previous version + the number of supposed Linux converts and people that rushed out to buy a Mac = next to no one.