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.
Windows 10 was free and still they could not get people to upgrade. Now they charge money so no way. Only way is to cut off Windows 7 from being sold at stores and blocking updates and only allowing Windows 10 on new pc’s.
Windows 10 is not that bad but it is spyware all the time.
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Yes. Win 10 plus Classic Shell (http://www.classicshell.net/downloads/) with the Classic Start Menu will be immediately usable by someone who has never used a version of Windows after XP. It puts everything back where it is supposed to be.
I have to admit that I do not hate Win 10. It has been quite stable.
There are still a few available on Amazon. Here's one:
https://www.amazon.com/P2520LA-XH51-Laptop-display-Intel-Windows/dp/B017D79I82/
Microsoft will stop extended support for Windows 7 on January 14, 2020. Your new Win 7 laptop will still have plenty of life left in it in 2020, but you will be running an abandoned operating system. Microsoft will stop patching security holes, and hardware/software manufacturers will eventually stop supporting Win 7.
In my opinion, buying a new Win 7 computer is a mistake. Just buy a new Win 10 computer and immediately install Classic Shell.
If you have a WX license, you have “downgrade” rights, which will enable the user of a proper OS like W7, but you need the install media (and hardware for which W7 drivers exist).
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