Posted on 08/14/2015 6:33:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So it looks like the Windows 10 launch was a big success if early adoption numbers are to be believed. The Register drops some data from StatCounter showing that Windows 10 already accounts for over 3.5% of desktop operating systems, up from just under 1.4% the week before. More interestingly, The Register says, “the biggest loser looks to be Windows 8.1, which dipped from 16.45 per cent share to 14.93 per cent,” while “Windows 7 went from 54.41per cent to 53.8 per cent and Windows 8 dropped from 3.6 percent to 3.46 percent.”
Of course, Windows 10 has some key advantages going for it that ensured it would see faster adoption among Windows users than any of its predecessors. Upgrading to Windows 10 is totally free for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users, which means that the only thing it will cost you to install is disk space and time. Microsoft has also been making a bigger push for users to upgrade to the latest software than it has in the past, which is also giving Windows 10 an important boost.
All the same, the overall reception to Windows 10 has been night-and-day compared to the early reception for Windows 8, which turned out to be a highly polarizing operating system that frustrated many longtime Windows users. Now it seems that Microsoft has really hit the sweet spot by building an operating system that will work well for people who use a keyboard and mouse but that also offers the kind of flexibility Windows 8 wanted to offer as a tablet OS.
I’m waiting a while longer.
Last year, around this time, got a Windows 8 machine for my wife. A week later, took it back to Best Buy, stuffed back in the box.
“Anything wrong with it?”
“It has Windows 8 on it.”
I hate, hate hate! Windows 8, but I’ll wait a while longer. I’ve been burned by Windows in the past by jumping on too soon.
Not me. Really like W7. I guess I will be like one of those Japanese soldiers who were fighting WW2 on remote islands in 1989 wearing a towel and gripping my rifle with first, XP, and now W7.
I, for one, am staying with 8.1 for probably another few months at minimum. I will let the marching morons test out the bells, whistles, virii, trojans and spyware BEFORE I jump. The only thing that I really see an advantage to, as a non-corporate user, is the new browser. My mantra is now, as always, Version 1.0.0 is not for me!
I’m running Windows 8 on most of my machine. A couple of machines running 8 are difficult to work with.
The issue isn’t Windows 10 is so good, I’m sure it’s buggy and loaded with spyware to the gills, the problem is Windows 8 is so bad.
For people running Windows 7, there isn’t really an incentive to change.
Ditto.
I got 10 almost the day it came out. I’ve had no problems so far.
But because of Windows 8, I will never buy another Windows machine. I was forced to upgrade my old slow XP machine to 7 because they stopped providing security updates. 7 is a bloated resource hog. They’ll have to go through a few usable iterations before I’ll trust them again. By that time I’ll be too immersed in the Mac universe to switch back.
right now I’m getting a polite reminder every morning.
If I wait too long they’ll be threatening to hunt me down and kill me and everyone I’ve ever loved.
I’m still running Win 8 with Classic Shell. I have the Windows 10 ISO but I’m happy with my setup.
I am very happy with 10 on my tablet. Much better than 8.1 with no issues.
I’ve got 8.1, and I too, am waiting for a while.
Yes, it’s precisely because Windows 8 was so bad that I’ve switched to 10.
They made Windows8 so bad for reason- to get customers to rush into 10: a “service”, not a “program”.
At least that’s the only reason for making something so bad I can see.
LMAO. Yeah, through your PC speakers, no doubt.
I haven’t had any real complaints about 8. I bought a couple laptops for my kids with 8, loaded 8.1 and have not seen any major issues. The girls were very happy with them—they love the touch screens. I don’t use the touch screen, so the interface is a bit clunky, but not a game-stopper. Boots and shutdowns are multiple times faster than 7. Windows 10 sounds much worse to me.
I have a convertible laptop/tablet and upgraded the day 10 came out, because (a) 10 seemed to be designed for just that kind of machine, and (b) I had no real security or privacy concerns on that particular machine. It’s been great.
You mean my Windows 95 OS with Bob is becoming obsolete ?
Gee..it’s almost as if Microsoft made Win8 suck on purpose.
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