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Posted on 05/10/2017 4:34:07 PM PDT by dayglored
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Their original target probably assumed some level of success in the phone market.
Still, that’s a lot of machines.
I bought my mother a new PC and had no choice but to buy it with Windows 10 on it.
It really sucks. The interface is completely different and it's loaded with bloatware.
ML/NJ
I hate it
I’ve built dozens of WIn-10 VMs. Only two remain that I know of. I wonder how virtual machines factors in?
Well, at least it’s finally surpassed WinXP.
https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0
Yeah, they were always talking about "total devices", meaning Windows phones/tablets, Surfaces, laptops, in addition to their traditional mainstay of home and business desktops.
It _IS_ a lot of machines. No question about it. But the trend is not great. Look how many Windows 7 machines they have to still convert, to swap places:
Those curves are nearly flat -- Win7 at just below 50%, Win10 at about 25%. They still have to convert at least half of the remaining Windows 7 machines to Windows 10. At the rate of the past half year, it'll take until long after Win7 is dropped from support (Jan 2020) to make that happen.
The above curves were snapshotted from NetMarketShare's site a few minutes ago.
A VM counts as an installation just like any other, assuming it is active and has an internet connection.
I will switch to apple or linux before windows10.
I intend to go Linux. I’m in early research now.
Download Classic Shell and you will get your Windows 7 interface back. Works like a charm.
You have a few options:
It saves my sanity daily at work where I have to use/support it.
See link in comment #13 above.
I bought a Mac. I run them both
I had no idea there were that many W7 machines out there!
I’d guess the bulk of them are POS systems. I’ll poke around a bit.
I’ve been occasionally using Win 7 32 bit in a VM because I needed Family Tree Maker, which syncs (until two days ago) with Ancestry.com. Windows 10 is a no-go.
I have a underpowered PC with Windows Server 2008 without a keyboard or monitor that I can access remotely using Remmina remote desktop client. I may install Family tree maker on that computer because, even in a VM, windows blows.
Good choice, IMO. That's what I do.
Mac hardware lets me run anything at all as a virtual machine, they're stable running on the MacOS host (VMware Fusion), and restoring the state of any of the VMs is just a file copy, no fancy footwork. Time Machine backup/restore for the Mac is one of the big things that sold me on using that as my base platform.
I’m a happy clam on Fedora Linux. Just got tired of the Microsoft tax. A lot more secure.
Our migration to 10 is finally getting off the ground as a project. Been working on tweaking the image and build for months now... still work to do.
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