Posted on 06/11/2016 4:09:11 PM PDT by george76
The abacus-shufflers of analyst firm IDC have revised their 2016 PC sales forecasts downwards.
The firm now says PC shipments ... are forecast to decline by 7.3% year over year. That's roughly two per cent below earlier projections as conditions have been weaker than expected. The firm names weak currencies, depressed commodity prices, political uncertainty, and delayed projects as the weaker conditions impacting sales.
Windows 10 isn't helping matters either, because lots of people are availing themselves of free Windows 10 upgrades rather than buying a new PC. The firm also says that while a large share of enterprises are evaluating Windows 10, the pace of new PC purchases has not yet stabilized commercial PC shipments. Which sounds like plenty of organisations just aren't pulling the upgrade trigger fast enough to give the PC market a kick.
IDC also blames Windows 10 for slowing workstation sales. Earlier this week the firm reported EMEA workstation shipment numbers, reporting sales of 1,170,000 in the region during 2015, down from 2014's 1,194,000 shipments. "It looks like Windows 10 migration has been the priority in enterprise infrastructure budgets this year," said Mohamed Hefny, program manager in the Virtualization, Systems, and Infrastructure Solutions department of IDC CEMA.
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uninstall KB3035583
I did just that the other day. It’s gone.
The nagware popping up 20x a day was too much.
Or you can load Mints desktop, Cinnamon 3.0 desktop, on Ubuntu 16.04 and it’s not beta. I’ve been using it for over a month. I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and then installed the Cinnamon 3.0 desktop environment on it. Here is a link showing how to do it:
How To Install Cinnamon 3.0 In Ubuntu 16.04 Or 15.10 Via PPA
http://www.webupd8.org/2016/04/http://www.webupd8.org/2016/04/how-to-install-cinnamon-30-in-ubuntu.html
Working link
HOW TO INSTALL CINNAMON 3.0 IN UBUNTU 16.04 OR 15.10 VIA PPA
http://www.webupd8.org/2016/04/how-to-install-cinnamon-30-in-ubuntu.html
“My workstation though... Windows 10, damnit! “
In our workplace, we have 3 pc’s that are W10 but we made sure we keep it at 3 and the rest are at 8. My laptops are at W7 still and no way am I even upgrading to 8.
Unless Bill Gates provides me every Victoria’s Secret models in bikinis to serve my breakfast for 30 straight days, then maybe...
Interesting. I liked Ubuntu years ago until they went to that awful Unity desktop. I’ll probably just stay with Mint though. It’s been flawless on my ancient laptop and does everything I need a pc to do.
What law?
International?
Federal?
State?
Local?
“Fedora Linux as my main system.Not perfect”
What are the drawbacks?
Yep both my wife and me. I hate 10.
Thanks to raybbr for the ping!!
Got a list?
Federal
I usually get some guy named Peggy from Russia.
I mistakenly said “ports” instead of IP addresses/DNS sites. The Hosts file can’t be used to block them, so you need to do it from your physical router.
More here:
Also Windows 10 is spyware. That certainly does not help!
I used Mint 17.3 for about a year and I really liked it. When Ubuntu 16.04 came out I wanted to try it, but I also disliked the “Unity” desktop. When I saw that I could load the Mint Cinnamon 3.0 desktop on Ubuntu, I went for it. It’s really fast, boots in 15 seconds on my Dell i5 ssd hard disk laptop.
I’ve come to like Ubuntu more than Mint because Ubuntu has a larger support team and gets more frequent and earlier updates and security updates than does Mint.
Mint 18 is coming out soon, based on Ubuntu 16.04, but I am going to stay with the real Ubuntu.
the reason for the decline is that the market has been saturated with computers that perform beter then most people need. my computers are 5 and 6 tears old I see no reason to replace them because all I use them for is browsing on the internet, streaming video and word processing. I see no need to pay 5-7 hundred dollars for a computer that performs better because we have finally hit the point where it does not mater anymore. unless you need an incredible graphics card for on line gaming you just don’t need the improvement in performance.
KB3035583 will just reinstall unless you specifically "hide" the update in Windows Update. Even if you do that, it might not be good enough. A friend's Win7 computer on which I hid KB3035583 managed to upgrade itself to 10, which she emphatically did not want. She may have clicked the wrong button on a Microsoft prompt by mistake, but she tried NOT to upgrade, and was upgraded anyway.
So, I have given up on uninstalling and hiding updates to stop Windows 10.
If you don't want 10, either install Steve Gibson's "Never 10"...
https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
...or install Josh Mayfield's GWX Control Panel
http://ultimateoutsider.com/downloads/
Steve Gibson is a very well known, well respected old pro. I have been using his programs for decades without a single problem.
Here's an article about the two programs:
Watch or listen to Steve Gibson’s “Security Now” podcasts (old or new) on the TWIT TV website.
https://twit.tv/shows/security-now
I have. Good stuff.
I accidentally left my Win7 laptop in "sleep" mode overnight and the next morning when I activated it, it was in a state of constant hard drive activity, my worst fears were realized.
Now I am more determined than ever to join the inevitable class action lawsuit against Microsoft.
My Win 8.0 desktop, my newest Windows machine, which I had willingly decided to upgrade to 8.1, then to Win10, was completely trashed last February upon completion of the win10 upgrade install.
All my most-used programs were uninstalled, disappeared : Adobe Acrobat, AutoCad, Photo editing software, MS Office 360, and a few other utilities I cant even recall offhand.
But worst of all when the "upgrade" ended, I could not access any of my external USB Drives, and attempting to resolve the problems the desktop "died" and wouldn't even boot.
Eventually I was able to coax it into booting, and am planning to transfer any important remaining data from the hard drive and get help rebuilding the i5 Desktop.
in the meantime, I rely on my older desktop to manage all my household accounts, pay bills and save records. So upgrading it to Win 10 is permanently out of the question.
The summary of my Windows 10 experience?
NEVER!!
After 25 years of Windows (I've hated Apple,) it is time to reconsider switching to Apple, if the software I need is available for it.
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