Axin' for a friend.
Posted on 12/12/2024 11:14:49 AM PST by dayglored
Despite Microsoft's push to get customers onto Windows 11, growth in the market share of the software giant's latest operating system has stalled, while Windows 10 has made modest gains, according to fresh figures from Statcounter.
This is not the news Microsoft wanted to hear. After half a year of growth, the line for Windows 11 global desktop market share has taken a slight downturn, according to the website usage monitor, going from 35.6 percent in October to 34.9 percent in November. Windows 10, on the other hand, managed to grow its share of that market by just under a percentage point to 61.8 percent.
The drop was more pronounced in Microsoft's home market of the United States. Americans are now less than keen on the IT titan's flagship operating system, at least if you judge by the figures, resulting in a fall in the US of more than 3 percent in market share, while Windows 10 grew by a similar amount.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.com ...
But if you force a windows 11 install on an unsupported computer then you can’t get updates. That is what I have read.
When I got my new PC I spent the first two days removing or deleting everything I could find Microsoft. Do not sign up or in for anything Microsoft, especially Edge, weather, that kind of stuff. I put a few programs on from the 90’s I had and they work great and I avoid anything from their ‘cloud,’ puke.
I have one on XP, one on Win 7, and two running Win 10 that I'm just tinkering with for the time being. I miss Windows 98 SE.
They have been putting flash screens on windows 10. First it is to tell you that your computer cannot install windows 11. Then a couple of months later they are putting up splash screens saying that they want you to test if you computer supports windows 11. Even though they have already determined that it does not. Very harassing.
I never saw a reason to change from XP. But Gates promised that Win10 would be the last system. So isn’t Win11 an example of fraud? Where are the regulators? The DOJ?
I’ve used all of the common OS distributions since CP/M. DOS 6.1, Win XP, 7, 10 and so far 11 have been very good. I love iPhone and iPad but have never liked Mac computers. Linux is OK, but I just can’t get enthusiastic about it.
If MS continues to disallow older hardware that is still tremendous overkill for most applications, I predict Win 11 will not sell. They will have to give it away with new computers.
I didn’t “upgrade” to Windows 10 until I was forced to, and I upgraded from XP, skipping Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 completely.
Sooner or later, I am going to have to upgrade all of my current PCs and Windows 10 will no longer be available. Hopefully, by then, they will have all of the bugs worked out of Windows 11 (or 12, or 13, or whatever version they are selling then).
Sometimes, I really miss MS-DOS. It never crashed and the only programs I needed were Lotus 123 and WordPerfect 5.1. OTOH, it was a real pain loading my programs from 5.25” floppy disks whenever I wanted to use one.
Axin' for a friend.
“Windows 11 is a privacy nightmare.”
No, Windows 11 is an even worse privacy nightmare. It also stinks because the post-Win 7 UI tries to work well for desktops, tablets, and touchscreens, and fails with alll of them.
Windows 11 plays Microsoft 365. That is what matters to the world’s businesses
Tricky question this what I gathered from the video and more importantly the comment section.
Microsoft’s latest position is that they are informing those who choose to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware that they will not take responsibility or liability and will not guarantee updates.
As one commented poster, that’s now news Microsoft never takes responsibility for anything anyways.
There were commenters claiming that they installed Windows 11 on unsupported hardware months ago and they are still getting updates.
I ran Windows XP after it was no longer supported and only switched to a new Windows 10 machine after a hardware failure that I didn’t think was worth fixing.
I acquired and old windows xp computer a while ago to play with. First only old versions of browsers are supported. And those old versions will not even play youtube videos. Also a lot of software is not supported. Tax software will not run on anything less than windows 10. So even though the old hardware may be capable of doing what you need to do. The newer neccisary software will not run on XP. That is how they force you to update.
I tried to download 11 on my 10 and Microsoft said I need a new computer.
“How many are still running Win 7?”
I wish
Thank you for letting me know I can do that. But why isn't it listed in the first place? It should be top of the list.
GOOD!
So, last week, I picked up a decent 250GB SSD on sale for $18, popped it into the Asus and installed Linux Mint on it.
Blazingly fast and comes with a software suite of office apps as good as MS Office.
The 'lay of the land" as far as tweaking goes is a lot different than Windows, but honestly, so far everything has worked perfectly right out of the box. Been testing it for five days at this point as a daily driver and it's excellent.
If Microsoft really does end support for Win10 in October, it'll be Linux Mint for me. Highly recommend it - and it's free.
The rigs in my recording studio all run Win10 and will continue to out of neccessity. The good news is that the main rig's never on line, so security won't be an issue. The other rig in my studio is online, but doesn't have to be.
If you use Control Panel a lot, add it to your task bar, also, you can hide search if it is on your task bar.
How many are still running Win 7?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.