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.
I mean....
Headline is misleading. Win7 share has been nearly constant since Oct. 2016 (between 47.17% and 49.46%).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, when you force updates onto my machine, that’s going to happen.
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Wait, I'm confused. Win7 goes from 48.38% (Oct '16) to 48.43% (Aug '17), and that's a STUMBLE?? That's an increase. Or is this being done with New Math or something? It appears to me that Win10 is increasing (from 22.59% to 27.99%) at the expense of Win8.1, WinXP, and "Other" (presumably Linux, Unix). Win7 is holding its own, market-share-wise.
Do we sense an agenda here, folks??
I get Blue Screen of Blah(Critical Process Died) all the time now after the Creators Update ,my main OS is now Linux Mint 18.2 xfce . Had to find my win 7 so I can play a few games . I hear there’s another Creators Update coming soon
Windows 10 is pretty decent. Best feature I’ve found so far is the ability to use remote desktop across multiple monitors. Make working from home a much nicer experience.
Biggest issue: Won't run vmware workstation without having to screw with the BIOS and some obscure hacks to get it running because VMWare doesn't like hyper-v. So far, I haven't been able to get it to work, and managed to get the system into such a bad reboot loop that I had to reload it from scratch. Yet again, microsoft has managed to steal hours of my life.
Only slightly after they pretty much abandoned Windows 7?
That’s not good.
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.