Posted on 08/19/2015 4:20:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Microsoft's Windows 10 has easily surpassed the global usage share ascension of Windows 7 six years ago, putting it on track to become the company's most successful OS introduction ever.
Windows 10's usage share neared 6.6 percent on Sunday, data from analytics vendor StatCounter showed. That was a 23 percent increase over what the OS logged the Sunday prior, continuing the unbroken stretch of double-digit-or-more, week-over-week increases since Windows 10's July 29 debut.
The operating system's usage share increase has comfortably exceeded that of its closest rival, Windows 7, during the latter's first 18 days of availability in the fall of 2009. Windows 7's high-water mark during that stretch was 3.8 percent by StatCounter's count.
StatCounter estimates what Computerworld has dubbed "usage share" by tallying page views, making the Irish metric firm's numbers a signal of activity on the Internet rather than of users. Windows 7's uptake as measured by StatCounter was quicker off the mark than was Windows 10's, a fact that should not come as a surprise, since the former was released as a paid upgrade that users had been eagerly buying in the run-up to its October 22, 2009, official launch.
Microsoft treated Windows 10 differently, choosing to not only give away the upgrade to hundreds of millions of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, but delivering that upgrade to customer subsets over time, part of an effort to minimize stress on the Redmond, Wash. company's content distribution network and allow it to track problems, then presumably fix them, before triggering upgrade notifications for the next "wave."
By the fourth day after its introduction, Windows 10's usage share had topped that of Windows 7 at the same point in its post-debut schedule. Windows 10 has not relinquished the lead since then.
I’ll wait for the reviews. I’m running Win7 and I’m very satisfied with it.
Windows 7 was not a free upgrade.
I have Win 10
I can tell no difference when operating with the traditional shell. It might be snappier and has Edge
Right. I like Windows 10 but it was a free upgrade for a lot of people. Are they counting everyone downloading it for free in these numbers????????
I’m still running XP.
that’s only because you needed to be tech savvy to avoid it
Unlike the traditional shell, Win 10 is reporting every last thing you do to Microsoft.
They don't have to charge. With all the information Win 10 is getting off your PC, all they have to do is wait for the NSA to come calling and they will get a fair price for it. Think of the irony. The feds use your money to buy your private info from Microsoft.
Shows you that Win 8/8.1 was far worse than Vista.
I downloaded 4 versions, but haven’t installed any of them yet.
Well Whoop-de-freaking-doo. They’re giving it away.
For now.
I bet the business model is that they take hold of your computer with the “free” “upgrade” and then essentially hold it hostage requiring annual “subscription” fees. From them, I’d expect no less.
Spyware
Linux Mint here. 17.2, latest/greatest. I keep up.
Sweetest OS I have ever used. With a single proc, it does circles around all my windoze boxes that have dual proc. Same ram in all.
Of course I don’t have a printer attached to it. Just use Linux for lightning instant web surfing and e-mail etc. Print from the XP box. Work on Win7 pc. And keep an OSX mac around for kicks.
Well duh...it’s FREE
I loaded Windows XP in VM Ware player and made the registry hack so MS would send it the latest updates.
Sure is fast. Sure uses a lot less memory.
Uses about 200 megabytes of RAM versus 2 gigabytes used by Windows 7. An unpatched install of Windows 2000 Pro uses 35 megabytes of RAM and is freakishly fast compared to everything that came after.
Where was I going with this post?
Move picture and ‘keeper’ files to thumb drives (very cheap storage) and make some room. That would help in the short term, and if you want you could get a passport or book drive or similar and move anywhere from 500 gigs to a couple of terrabytes. Still pretty affordable, and if it is stuff you want to archive, you should be able to access it with the new machine as well.
Edge doesn't bog down like IE and it's fast. But I still like Firefox better. And Chrome.
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