Posted on 01/04/2016 4:44:07 PM PST by dayglored
Subtitle: But third-party metrics don't support the company's contention that Windows 10's adoption has outpaced Windows 7's in late 2009-early 2010
Microsoft today updated its Windows 10 claim, saying that the new operating system is on more than 200 million devices that have been used at least once in the past month.
The number included not only personal computers and tablets, a company spokesman confirmed, but also Xbox One video game consoles -- the box got Windows 10 in November -- and smartphones now running a preview of Windows 10 Mobile.
"As of today, there are more than 200 million monthly active devices around the world running Windows 10," asserted Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's lead marketing executive for the Windows and devices group. Mehdi tossed out several other upbeat statistics in a post to a company blog Monday.
"Windows 10 adoption is accelerating, with more than 40% of new Windows 10 devices becoming active since Black Friday," Mehdi said, referring to the shopping day after the U.S.'s Thanksgiving holiday. "In fact, Windows 10 continues to be on the fastest growth trajectory of any version of Windows -- ever -- outpacing Windows 7 by nearly 140% and Windows 8 by nearly 400%."
Mehdi also announced that 22 million of the 200 million-device total -- or about 11% -- were in enterprises and educational organizations, a number likely derived from tallies of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education, the editions available only to businesses, schools and universities.
Today's data refresh was the first from Microsoft in three months: On Oct. 6 a different company official said that 110 million users were then running Windows 10.
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You might lose the farm on that bet. They say (assuming they aren't lying) that they're only counting Windows 10 installations that have completed and run at least long enough to phone home once. That's still a little sketchy, but it doesn't count non-installed downloads.
Windows 10 has a glitch when trying to connect to the hotspot on your droid. After upgrade I had to reload my wireless drivers in Windows 8 compatibility mode. Then worked fine. If anybody is having that problem I can probably help you out.
I've got a big woodstove, needs lots of firestarter. This could be a Good Thing. :-)
I dunno. They’ve done too much sneaky sh1t with 10.
!0 works great for me. It’s much faster than all other versions.
Yeah, now that I think about it, you’re probably right. I wasn’t thinking about call center type computers with custom applications. Was thinking more the Marketing, sales and maybe even IT staff.
10 works great for me. It’s much faster than all other versions.
I’m currently on build 11082.
How do you know which build version is on your computer?
One of the things I’ve been working on over the holidays is upgrading my 4 Win7 desktops and 1 Win8.1 laptop to Win10. Have made full MacriumReflect disk image backups prior to each, just in case something goes wrong so I can restore the full disk. So far I haven’t needed them.
The laptop upgraded fine, although it initially booted to a temporary profile. Changed to local vs MS account login and did a hard reset (5 sec power button push), and it rebooted just fine into my original login account.
The first Win7 desktop upgraded with no problem at all. The second desktop turned out to be unavailable for upgrade at this time (set to notify later if ready), since it’s my oldest (6+ years old). The third desktop is upgrading as I type this.
All in all, pretty uneventful upgrading so far. One other precaution I’m taking is to uninstall my AVG virus software just before each upgrade. May just go with built-in Defender on the upgraded Win10 machines.
So far Win10 seems pretty nice. Definitely a mix of Win7 and Win8.1, and WAY better for desktops w/o a touch screen than Win8.1 was.
I have it, it stinks and I would get rid of it if I could.
Verrrrry interesting...
Here's the official Microsoft announcement, including the total number of hours people have been on Windows 10.
"Recently we reached another milestone - people have spent over 11 billion hours on Windows 10 in December alone, spending more time on Windows than ever before."(Wait, how do they know that...?)
windows-10-now-active-on-over-200-million-devicesBTW, Microsoft REFUSED to divulge how they arrived at that figure, and refused to confirm or deny that they monitor your usage time.
But the "telemetry" includes a record of what you do, and when you do it. You figure it out.
On Windows 10 go to action center then All Settings then System then About. Version and OS Build will be listed. Mine is Version 1511. OS Build 10586.36
Yeah, that's pretty much my take on it too. I can use it. I prefer 7. But 10 beats hell out of 8.1 in every way on a desktop.
..and my 3rd desktop (2 years old, lots of apps, most heavily used) has just now upgraded from Win7 to Win10 w/o any problems at all. Same desktop, all original apps appear to be still in place, etc. My original post a bit ago was from a Kindle Fire, but this one is from MS Edge running on the now-upgraded Win10 desktop. So, 200M + 1 more, and one more to go now.
I’m probably one of those 200 million. I tried Win 10 a couple of weeks ago out of curiosity. Didn’t like it. Things that should have worked didn’t work correctly, applications I need would not even install. That machine is back to Win 7.
Most of my day to day stuff is Linux (Mint or LMDE) but I need windows for some applications that won’t run on anything else.
BTW, the new Win10 upgrade installer (Nov. 15) will allow you to change the prior “express” settings as the final upgrade step, and custom configure them. These are options to turn off all the info Micro$oft collected in initial Win10 installs by default, P2P file sharing for patches, default Cortana use, etc. I stepped through them all and ended up turning them all OFF on the upgrades I’ve done so far.
First they made it free since the user is the product, not the OS.
Now they are trying to scare you into using Win 10.
Microsoft Warns Windows 7 Has Serious Problems
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3379158/posts
The Feds via the NSA and other intel agencies must be throwing some bonuses Microsoft’s way to find ways to get more people to use Win 10 since it makes it much easier to spy on us.
Windows 10: It ain't all on just computers.
Microsoft's 200M devices includes Xboxes, Lumia phones, Surface tabs and books, etc.
Gee, ya think?
Of course, we'll never know...
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