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XP was the last OS that Microsoft didn't have to twist people's (and corporations') arms to get them to install.

As of September of this year, 0.26% of all PCs in use were still running XP.

That's more than Fedora Linux, Windows Vista, or FreeBSB.

Meanwhile, the desktop market continues to dwindle and handhelds -- the market that MS has COMPLETELY missed the boat on -- grows ever more dominant.

“Meanwhile, the desktop market continues to dwindle and handhelds — the market that MS has COMPLETELY missed the boat on — grows ever more dominant.”

Windows PCs/desktops/laptops have been selling well the last 18 months as people have been working from home. Private sector work from home is monitored and is real. Public sector work from home has been a do nothing scam. In the UK one Gov’t biggie said she always will be working from home. She has 1000 people working under her. This zooming it in scam gives her time, she said so, during her alleged workday to work out on her Peloton bike (might have been another brand) UK Daily Mail exposed this parasite.

> XP was the last OS that Microsoft didn't have to twist people's (and corporations') arms to get them to install. As of September of this year, 0.26% of all PCs in use were still running XP. That's more than Fedora Linux, Windows Vista, or FreeBSB.

As a fan of Win7 (with XP-SP3 a reasonable second), I'd say that adopting Win7 didn't require much arm-twisting either. Vista really did the trick -- first it drove tons of new-computer buyers including me to demand that the vendor pre-install XP not Vista; then after Win7 came out we breathed a sigh of relief and prepared for the day when XP would fade away.

And last year Win7 was de-supported. The last 15 years of Windows has really been a roller-coaster ride.

But it appears the axiom still holds, about every other release of Windows is good, and the rest suck. Win11 is the next "suck" release, and if it wants to beat that rap it will have to work pretty hard.

Microsoft shoulda called it "Win10 21H2". It would have gotten a much better reception over time.