Hate it! Had Vista. It will take me months to become proficient with my computer. Hate Hate Hate W10!
I find my self firmly fastened, probably forever, in the Windows 7 portion of that graph.
Tricks, scams, and non-consensual downloads through updates is not popularity and market share. Microsoft is like a guy giving women roofies, then bragging that all the women want to sleep with him.
Windows 10 is essentially a date rape operating system.
I finally broke down and installed it. It may be better than Windows 8, which was horrible and came on my laptop. Hate the new browser Edge, but at least you can still use IE, thought the switchover hid all the links to it and I had to set up a new shortcut.
I am staying with Windows 7 throughout president Trumps 2 terms!
So, what would it be without all the unwanted stealth installs?
Windows 7 rules
Windows 7 rules
That is only because 80% of that 20% didn't manage to prevent Microshaft from "upgrading" their win 7 machines to Win 10 without their consent...
More and more people could not stop it installing itself over their favored versions.
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
“Never 10 is an easy to use utility which gives users control over whether their Windows 7 or 8.1 will upgrade itself to Windows 10.
“The name “Never 10” is a bit of an overstatement, since this utility may also be used to easily re-enable Windows operating system automatic upgrading. But the primary reason for using this is to disable Windows’ pestering insistence upon upgrading Windows 7 or 8.1 to Windows 10.
“Many users of Windows 7 and 8.1 are happy with their current version of Windows, and have no wish to upgrade to Windows 10. There are many reasons for this, but among them is the fact that Windows 10 has become controversial due to Microsoft’s evolution of their Windows operating system platform into a service which, among other things, aggressively monitors and reports on its users activities. This alone makes many users uncomfortable enough to cause them to choose to wait. In line with this, a few months into 2016, Windows 10 started displaying unsolicited advertisements on its users’ desktops. Others dislike the changes Microsoft made by merging their failed “tiled” smartphone user-interface into the Windows UI. And, finally, some object to being force-fed whatever Microsoft wants and simply wish to choose for themselves.
“In July of 2015, responding to the significant user backlash, Microsoft added features to its Windows Update facility which allow it to be configured, on a machine-by-machine basis, to not forcibly upgrade qualifying Windows 7 and 8.1 operating systems to Windows 10. However, Microsoft did not make this configuration simple. It requires the use of the group policy editor (which is not present in some qualifying systems) and/or the system registry. In other words, they created some deep internal configuration options but chose not to provide a simple user-interface to give their users the choice. “Never10” provides that choice.
“The elegance of this “Never 10” utility, is that it does not install ANY software of its own. It simply and quickly performs the required system editing for its user.
“If the system being configured has a version of Windows Update which is older than the required July 2015 release—which would mean that the required “upgrade disable” options are not yet present—this utility will notify its user (see the sample display screens above) and offer to download and install the required update to Windows Update so that Windows can then be configured not to upgrade itself to Windows 10.
Since this utility simply updates and/or configures the system to prevent or allow, OS upgrading, it may be deleted after it has configured the system appropriately.
“Using this utility, inexperienced users will be able to easily use Never10 themselves, while advanced users will likely appreciate that fact that no additional software is installed and will be able to refer friends and family, whom they support, to this easy-to-use utility.
I have serious doubts about the authenticity of that graph but given how people hate Vista and 8/8.1, maybe those Windows 10 users are old Vista and 8/8.1 users. I have Windows 7 and, believe it or not, XP, and I don’t plan on changing to 10 in the foreseeable future. I’m happy where I am and advise anyone and everyone not to install anything but Windows 7.
I just wish I could respond to their lil pop-up with a FOAD but all I can do is close it.
If there was such an Option would they report the % of responses?
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The Microsoft SpyWare known as Win 10 won’t ever see any computer I have authority over.
I copied a Windows 7 system image to a new hard drive that I installed in my laptop then upgraded to 10. Then I installed the programs that I use the most. I tried it for a week and experienced nothing but frustration. So I just put the original hard drive back in the laptop and am now using the windows 10 hard drive for external storage.
I am sure that there are some advantages to Windows 10. But to me it really feels intrusive, and a lot of things as simple as turning “tapping” off on my touch pad were no longer possible. That is just one example of needless frustration. I could go on and on. I do not like this push to using online storage either. It is too much of a security risk for me, yet it seems like you are constantly having to go to extra steps with Windows 10 if you want to store your data only on your hard drive.
I suppose that I will be forced to upgrade when my laptop eventually starts to fall apart, until then Microsoft stop pestering me.
It’s okay for my home computers. I upgraded all of them just to lock in the free offer for Windows 10. I do find it sluggish compared to Linux Mint. Click, slight lag with Windows 10 (probably reporting my clicks to the mother ship).
Microsoft has to give it away and force download Windows 10 and trick others and they only have 20%.
If they get rid of the spyware then Windows 10 would do much better.