Windows 10’s market share increases slightly as Windows 7 continues to stumble

Windows Latest ^ | 09/08/2017 | By Mayank Parmar

[editor-surveyor]

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Win 7 would be excellent with a proper file system.
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[Tanniker Smith]

Well, when you force updates onto my machine, that’s going to happen.

[cherry]

is it possible to keep windows 7 when you buy a new laptop?.....I need one but don’t want win. 10

[GingisK]

That was so well said that I will not throw in my own two cents.

[GingisK]

Makes the old three ring binders and clip boards look pretty good, doesn’t it? Oh, God bless the morning reports.

[dayglored]

Windows 10 vs. Windows 7 ... PING!

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

Wait, I'm confused. Win7 goes from 48.38% (Oct '16) to 48.43% (Aug '17), and that's a STUMBLE?? That's an increase. Or is this being done with New Math or something? It appears to me that Win10 is increasing (from 22.59% to 27.99%) at the expense of Win8.1, WinXP, and "Other" (presumably Linux, Unix). Win7 is holding its own, market-share-wise.

Do we sense an agenda here, folks??

[BlueLancer]

Makes the old three ring binders and clip boards look pretty good, doesn’t it? Oh, God bless the morning reports.

I miss the old Royal 550 typewriters or the IBM Selectrics. At least, then, when I finished typing something I had a "forever" hard copy and no computer malfunction could take that away from me ...

[butlerweave]

I get Blue Screen of Blah(Critical Process Died) all the time now after the Creators Update ,my main OS is now Linux Mint 18.2 xfce . Had to find my win 7 so I can play a few games . I hear there’s another Creators Update coming soon

[blam]

"I bought a new computer and all I could get was windows 10. I hate it. But they said the new computer already had windows 10 and they couldn’t change it. Windows 10 is absolutely horrible."

I've bought two (used) HP laptops just to get/keep windows-7.
I disable 'auto update' as soon as I receive the computer.

[blam]

Used/Refurbished machines with Win-7
(I've been happy with the two I bought on-line through Amazon)

[GingisK]

Selectric... Drooling...

[JohnyBoy]

Windows 10 is pretty decent. Best feature I’ve found so far is the ability to use remote desktop across multiple monitors. Make working from home a much nicer experience.

[zeugma]

Recently got a new work laptop from the company I work for. Unfortunately, it came with windows10. Crap and garbage.

Biggest issue: Won't run vmware workstation without having to screw with the BIOS and some obscure hacks to get it running because VMWare doesn't like hyper-v. So far, I haven't been able to get it to work, and managed to get the system into such a bad reboot loop that I had to reload it from scratch. Yet again, microsoft has managed to steal hours of my life.

[BBB333]

Download Classic Shell (it’s free) and you will be very happy - your W10 box will once again seem familiar.

I despise W10, but clients need new computers so I install Classic Shell.

I use W7 in a Mac. 100% love it.

[sarge83]

Windows 10 SUCKS, SUCKS, SUCKS!!!

We have had nothing but trouble with our computers since it was installed. Loss of printers, computers going into sleep mode and having to physically shut them down and reboot multiple times to get it to load. Don’t get me started on updates that take hours to install...

[kosciusko51]

is it possible to keep windows 7 when you buy a new laptop?.....I need one but don’t want win. 10

I don't know, but there are some other Windows folks here who may know.

[Chickensoup]

Does Microsoft have a non Google, non Amazon phone?

[Enlightened1]

Only slightly after they pretty much abandoned Windows 7?

That’s not good.

[Enlightened1]

Here you go,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile/

[Enlightened1]

I have it at work. It’s okay at best.

Love my Mac!