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Windows 10 adoption has slowed down considerably after explosive first month
PC World ^ | 10/01/2015 | Jared Newman

Posted on 10/01/2015 10:33:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Windows 10 uptake is falling back to earth after an explosive first month.

According to StatCounter, Windows 10 accounted for 7.64 percent of desktop Internet usage in September, compared to 5.38 percent the month prior. Rival metrics firm NetApplications pegs Windows 10 usage at 6.63 percent, compared to 5.21 percent in August.

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Three months of desktop operating system usage from StatCounter.

Both firms still have Windows 10 in fourth place among Microsoft operating systems, trailing behind even Windows XP, a 14-year-old operating system that Microsoft stopped supporting in 2014. Windows 7 remains way out in front, with 51.52 percent usage according to StatCounter, and 56.53 percent according to NetApplications. (Both firms have Windows 7 dropping by more than a percentage point last month.)win10netappssept

September's desktop operating system usage from NetApplications.

Windows 10 got off to a strong start in large part because Microsoft is giving away upgrades to consumers running Windows 7 and higher. The company boasted of 75 million installs for Windows 10 in its first four weeks, while StatCounter observed faster first month adoption than both Windows 7 and Windows 8 during their debuts.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: microsoft; windows10; windowspinglist
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To: angcat

I lost nothing. I now have 4 Windows 10 computers: my new Lenovo, an older desktop, older laptop, and a really old 32bit Lenovo laptop.

Can’t hurt to back up your data (it NEVER hurts to back up your data regularly).

One thing I could suggest is that for you to make sure you have as much memory plugged into your system as it can take. A big harddisk couldn’t hurt either, but, that memory is important.

Be patient. What I have found is that once you get W10 loaded, it will take a day or to of updates to get things totally straight. While it is updating, the computer will run slow and not be very useful, but, after a few restarts, it should run much better. A lot of drivers have been updated to work with W10 and they all have to upload.

I know all of mine did.

One thing about W10 is that it wants you to use a hotmail account. I have a number of them (lots of on-line storage) and don’t do anything on the computer I care if someone else sees (and I ignore on-line adverts), so, if you feel comfortable with it, sign into the Microsoft store and connect up. Otherwise. don’t :D

As a backup, I sign into Chrome and import my bookmarks there. I can get my bookmarks anywhere by signing the browser into my Chrome account.

Yes, I can see the privacy folk’s heads exploding now, but, I don’t care if someone sees me reading icanhascheezeburger.com or imdb.com. More important things, I do in a more secure way.


21 posted on 10/05/2015 9:49:48 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

Thank you!


22 posted on 10/05/2015 12:43:30 PM PDT by angcat
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To: SeekAndFind; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; Alas Babylon!; amigatec; ...
Another (older) thread on Windows 10 adoption rates ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

23 posted on 10/05/2015 9:19:49 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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