Image Courtesy: NetMarketShare.com Posted on 09/08/2017 8:12:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Looks like Microsoft’s Windows 10 is growing very slowly now. Last month Windows 10 market share had grown by 1%. The new report by NetMarkeShare revealed that Windows 10 share has increased to 27.99% from 27.63%. Good news is that Windows 10 market share is still increasing but very slowly.
Windows 8.1 market share dropped to 6.07% from the 6.48%, Windows XP’s share also decreased slightly. On the other hand, Windows 7’s market share dropped slightly to 48.43%.Image Courtesy: NetMarketShare.com
Although Windows 7’s market share is dropping, Windows 10 is still far behind to over take the former. Windows 10’s market share is likely to see a big jump as recently Gartner revealed that 85% of enterprises will be upgrading to the new OS by end of this year.
Microsoft is going to end Windows 7’s mainstream support 2020, more organisations are likely to upgrade to Windows 10 in the coming months. Apparently, Windows 10 will soon replace Windows 7. “Organizations recognize the need to move to Windows 10, and the total time to both evaluate and deploy Windows 10 has shortened from 23 months to 21 months between surveys that Gartner did during 2015 and 2016,” Gartner said.
As Windows 10 Fall Creators Update release is also on cards, Microsoft will be able to convince more users and urge them to upgrade to Windows 10 as the OS much better now.
Bragging about windows 10 increasing market share is like a guy using date rape sedatives and bragging he gets laid a lot.
Windows 10 is literally the date rape of operating systems. It installed itself while you slept.
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Headline is misleading. Win7 share has been nearly constant since Oct. 2016 (between 47.17% and 49.46%).
I bought a new computer and all I could get was windows 10. I hate it. But they said the new computer already had windows 10 and they couldn’t change it. Windows 10 is absolutely horrible.
I bought my daughters new laptops last year, both Win10 machines. For what they use it for, Win10 is fine, but I’m not looking forward to the day I have to use it at work...
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>> “ It installed itself while you slept.” <<
Only if you failed to properly install “Never10.”
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I’ve played with Windows 10 Home Edition and it’s actually not a bad operating system. At least most of the time you don’t have to deal with that annoying tiled interface like you did with Windows 8.x. The problem is that we’re so used to the Windows 7 user interface that the Windows 10 user interface can be a tad jarring initially.
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You can still buy “7 Ultimate” on Ebay.
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Still going strong with Windows 7. A month or so ago I even bought an old used Windows 98SE machine so I could run some of my old games.
You can get Windows 7 if you purchase refurbished (actually great deals and every machine in my home and office is a refurbished unit and been very reliable.
On Windows 10, I went with it for my personal machine only because Windows 7 support runs out in 18 months (or less). I had XP before and was tired of the constant non-longer supported issues). Windows 7 is great and more familiar. I gotta say, though, except for a few things I don't like, Windows 10 is working for me.
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Win 7 isn’t really that great either, but it does beat 10.
Its that insane and uncontrollable “Folder” file system that ruins 7.
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“I bought a new computer and all I could get was windows 10. I hate it. But they said the new computer already had windows 10 and they couldn’t change it. Windows 10 is absolutely horrible.”
There is a utility program out there called Classic Shell. It is an interface that will make your machine look and act like windows 7. It’s free but will take a donation. If you like it throw the guy a few bucks. I own a computer repair shop and install this for a lot of my senior clients.
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Where can you buy refurbished machines with Win 7?
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Win7 here and I don’t look to be using Win10 anytime soon.
However, I have noticed that browsers (primarily Firefox ESR and Comodo Icedragon) and Opera are becoming a bit glitchy. Web pages stall momentarily when I try to move down the page. The behavior is strikingly similar to problems I began having with XP before going to Win7.
The ‘mobile friendly’ websites have ruined website viewing on desktops and laptops. Scroll down while reading something and at the end of the screen, the whole website jumps/glitches to open the next segment. I then have to scroll up the page to find out where I was last reading.
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For what it is worth, I have been reading that by Firefox 57, they are completely re-writing the code so current extensions/add-on may no longer work. Many authors of extensions quit updating when the Mozille Rapid Release started several years ago. I lost several very good extension. More recently, I have received notes from extention and Mozilla-based browsers that they are giving up and will only do major updates occasionally or will no longer be updating their products.
It seems that Mozilla has been trying to kill Firefox for several years.
My Firefox ESR is at version 53 and it is glitchy. With every upgrade, I lose another extension or two due to incompatibility.
In doing so, the powers-that-be failed to discover that the primary program that my section relies on is, even according to the creators of the program itself, not compatible and will not work .. repeat, WILL NOT WORK .. on Windows 10 Professional. It is compatible with Windows 10 Home but the Army, in its infinite wisdom, elected to only allow Windows 10 professional on its computers.
When my installation switched over to Windows 10 .. in the middle of the night, without warning .. my section of six soldiers and two civilians became instantly unable to perform our duties .. duties that I would note only we eight perform for the entire installation of tens of thousands of soldiers. We spent the next three weeks completely unproductive as the IT folks, both locally and Army-wide, attempted to find workarounds, which they were unable to do, while querying the creator of the program about workarounds or updates to the program, and, lo-and-behold, they "discovered" that the program was incompatible .. nay, was designed to be non-compatible .. with Windows 10 professional. Additionally, the creator of the program indicated that they had no plans on to adapt their program to be compatible with Windows 10 professional.
So, with my bosses whining to us about our lack of productivity, it was finally decided that they'd kick the can down the road awhile and roll-back our computers .. and only the computers for my section .. to Windows 7. But that then created another problem: in the rollback, about half of the computers went back to Windows 7, but then refused to run the program. And there was no way to reimage them with a new Windows 7 OS because the Army had already created an Army-wide Windows 10 professional image for newly-imaged Army computers, and would not allow new images to be made for Windows 7.
So here we are: almost two months later and we're limping along on half the number of computers that we need to perform our duties in a productive manner, and hoping that the ones that we're able to use now don't go belly-up. Other installations also made the conversion from Windows 7, even after seeing what happened to us, and the sections like mine on those installations are having the identical problems, with no better solutions. But we're still living on borrowed-time. The Army has decreed that all .. repeat, all .. computers used by the Army will be converted to Windows 10 professional by the end of the year, and we've been told that that means ours as well.
Have had 10 since release and it is as good as 8/8.1 were. Converted our 200,000 work desktops from Win 7 to Win 10 this summer, very few issues and it continues to run great.
Still using XP, updates off, macrium reflect for re-install, and Firefox browser, but lately Firefox not mating happily with Youtube.
Ebay.
Windows 10 is good - better than the Win XP, Win7 and Win8 I have/had on other machines in the office. No problems so far on 3 desktops and 2 laptops. Install was clean and easy on all and I have a lot of heavy-duty apps (no games, though). Don’t know what the fuss is all about. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with or consideration from MS.
But Windows 10 does take some getting used to because it tries to integrate the tiled user interface from Windows 8.x versions. But once you get used to it, Windows 10 is actually quite a good operating system (at least you still get overlapping windows).
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