NOT ANOTHER UPDATE!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Posted on 04/07/2015 8:58:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Although Microsoft has said its Windows 10 preview program has some 2.8 million participants, just over half of those are using the early version on a regular basis, according to Web metrics estimates.
For March, U.S.-based analytics company Net Applications pegged Windows 10's user share, a rough projection of the fraction of online users running the OS, at 0.09%, or nine PC users out of every 10,000.
That represented 0.1% of all Windows PC users, the slight difference due to the fact that Windows does not account for all personal computer operating systems, but instead about 91%.
Windows 10's user share of all Windows PCs last month was slightly less than Windows 8's 0.12% in March 2012, seven months before the latter's official launch. Microsoft ran a preview program for Windows 8 in the year prior to the OS's October 2012 on-sale date.
This time, however, Microsoft will ship the upgrade at least one, perhaps several, months sooner on the calendar than it did Windows 8: The Redmond, Wash. company has promised to release Windows 10 this summer, a wide window that could mean as early as June or as late as September.
Windows 10's user share translated into approximately 1.5 million users, assuming about 1.52 billion Windows PCs in operation across the globe.
Microsoft last gave an Insider participant count a month ago, when Stephen Elop, formerly the CEO of Nokia and now the head of Microsoft's Device and Services division, said there were 2.8 million registered testers.
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I did test it early on, but I wasnt big on the fact that lots of your activity is tracked, so I’ll wait until the consumer release, and put it on a spare laptop.
Beside it really isnt nearly finished for my tastes.
Windows PING
NOT ANOTHER UPDATE!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
They’re having a lot of testers because even though Microsoft is defaulting back to the Desktop user interface on desktop and “conventional” laptops, there’s still a lot of major interface changes even compared to Windows 7. And that will require a lot of user testing and feedback to refine.
It comes pre-loaded with Service-Pack 1 to save you time waiting for the fixes.
I installed a couple of months ago, and have had little problem. I kind of like it. Very intuitive —
I gave it to an 11-year-old boy to install on a pretty new computer, and as I watched, he was able to install it with a very minimum of hints. No complaints since, and he is an internet/game user.
Is Prozac usage increasing at the same rate??
Linux Mint installs a lot faster than that.
Get a Mac.
Stephen EFLOP is running their mobile services division? Microsoft must want it killed then based on his track record of killing Nokia
How early was that? I started testing it in November 2014 ... it was pretty rough. The updates in late January 2015 were a HUGE improvement.
Anyone get Cortana to work? She hears me, but I cannot hear her. She does do what I ask - at least tries.
This is with the latest release...
I see Cortana as yet a Star Trek technology that becomes real. In it’s infancy.. And she does pretty good understanding me..
It works fine (for me at least)
“Internet Explorer 12”, being a Windows 8 app, disappears when it crashes—the omni-box is broken, and you can’t disable the search suggestions (this is what causes it to crash).
It is also incompatible with 99.999% of the plugins/addons ever developed for Internet Explorer (from ~1996-present). The only thing that works, is of course, Macromedia Flash...
It should probably be a native app, and Windows NT for ARM can get the universal app...
Haven’t had any serious issues myself. What is actually happening is that Microsoft is employing their user community to test more combinations of hardware than they could ever possibly test themselves. If this prevents another “unsigned driver” issue then I’m all for it.
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