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Posted on 01/04/2016 4:44:07 PM PST by dayglored
Subtitle: But third-party metrics don't support the company's contention that Windows 10's adoption has outpaced Windows 7's in late 2009-early 2010
Microsoft today updated its Windows 10 claim, saying that the new operating system is on more than 200 million devices that have been used at least once in the past month.
The number included not only personal computers and tablets, a company spokesman confirmed, but also Xbox One video game consoles -- the box got Windows 10 in November -- and smartphones now running a preview of Windows 10 Mobile.
"As of today, there are more than 200 million monthly active devices around the world running Windows 10," asserted Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's lead marketing executive for the Windows and devices group. Mehdi tossed out several other upbeat statistics in a post to a company blog Monday.
"Windows 10 adoption is accelerating, with more than 40% of new Windows 10 devices becoming active since Black Friday," Mehdi said, referring to the shopping day after the U.S.'s Thanksgiving holiday. "In fact, Windows 10 continues to be on the fastest growth trajectory of any version of Windows -- ever -- outpacing Windows 7 by nearly 140% and Windows 8 by nearly 400%."
Mehdi also announced that 22 million of the 200 million-device total -- or about 11% -- were in enterprises and educational organizations, a number likely derived from tallies of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education, the editions available only to businesses, schools and universities.
Today's data refresh was the first from Microsoft in three months: On Oct. 6 a different company official said that 110 million users were then running Windows 10.
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More from the article:
It's impossible to corroborate Microsoft's claims using data from outside the company -- the "monthly active" framing of the 200-million measurement implied that Microsoft was tallying unique connections to the Windows Update service, which polls Redmond's servers only when a device is on -- but third-party statistics hint that fewer devices are running Windows 10, and that the OS has fallen slightly behind Windows 7's uptake tempo in its first five months.On Friday, U.S.-based analytics vendor Net Applications pegged Windows 10 with an overall user share of 10% -- an estimate of the fraction of the global users who went online in December running the OS -- and indicated that Windows 10 accounted for 10.9% of all Windows-powered personal computers.
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Win10 drove me to Linux Mint 17.2 + Oracle VMs to run various Win versions (including a very slow win10 - just for kicks)
I am satisfied with 8.1 on my home PC and not upgrading.
Most companies aren’t proud of pissing off so many people.
;)
I just upgraded my laptop and desktop.Far too soon to pass judgment although I am a bit concerned about compatibility with several applications and devices.
>>I am satisfied with 8.1 on my home PC and not upgrading.<<
Don’t be surprised if soon your car won’t start, your ATM and credit cards don’t work, you start getting magazines you didn’t order and your TV decides what to watch.
Starting to lose track of how many linux instances I own or personally support - it’s all good though!
“I am satisfied with 8.1 on my home PC and not upgrading.”
I am satisfied with 7 on my home PC and not upgrading.
I’m sure this will be 100 posts from people that will swear that half of those people uninstalled it, or that Microsoft is fudging the numbers, or how someone “tossed my PC and got a Mac” or Linux or whatever.
Oh dont forget the 10000 variations on the “I was forced” meme.
I bet most of those are computers of large international to smaller businesses that need to upgrade for contractual reasons.
It's not -quite- that bad. :-)
As for myself...
I've been running 10 in a couple VMs for a few months and it's mostly fine. I've had a couple of application problems, and my Linux/Samba-based file shares stopped working because Win10 dropped back-compatibility and only supports a new variant protocol of SMB that wasn't part of Samba when I built the fileserver, so that's on the list to get upgraded.
Overall it performs well. I'm not a fan of the remaining bits of Metro that lurk in the corners of my desktop but I'm studiously overlooking them.
On the other hand, my working machines are 7 and may very have to stay 7 for a good while, because I have to get work done at work and can't be compromising productivity for newness.
On my personal machines they'll probably have to pull 7 out of my hands in 2020 by stopping the security updates. OTOH, I'm looking at buying a SurfaceBook when my current laptop (a wonderful, reliable, speedy Fujitsu) quits at last, and of course the SB will come with Win10. I'm probably gonna try running 7 Pro on it, but by then, if I have to run 10 I'll probably have figured how to make things work with it acceptably.
See? Not so bad.
I upgraded an 8 year old w 7 Dell Laptop and a 2 year old w 8.1 Dell Laptop. I later did a clean install on both systems. Both are running flawlessly.
I disagree -- I think most of the new activations are new machines (pre-installed) and upgrades on individual personal computers.
There may be some companies that are contractually obligated to upgrade but if so I call them reckless and damned foolish. It's NEVER been a good idea to pull the rug out from under a business network of functioning computers and expect a smooth transition with a new OS.
If I had to guess, I'd say that businesses will be the LAST to upgrade their existing 7 and 8 installations. They have to run a business, not play Beta-tester for Microsoft.
I can only speak from my experience with it. I tried and I didn’t like it.
What is this "getting magazines" of which you speak? Some new mechanism for ammo delivery?
Damn straight. Microsoft is STILL supporting businesses running Windows XP with customized security updates... if you have enough money. It ain't cheap.
>>What is this “getting magazines” of which you speak? Some new mechanism for ammo delivery?<<
The only thing I know is you get 20 a week and they all are titled “Harriet Carter.”
They say 10 is on 200 million systems.
They have set 7 and 8 to have 10 downloaded to, ready for install. Whether the person actually installs it or not.
I bet the farm these boxes are included in this 200 million figure.
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