Posted on 10/05/2015 9:17:17 PM PDT by dayglored
Windows 10 looks to have won about seven per cent of the world's desktop operating system market.
That's The Reg's back-of-the-spreadsheet calculation after running our eye over September’s data from Netmarketshare and StatCounter, the two services we regularly eyeball to see what's going down on the desktop.
Remember that Windows 10 launched on July 29th. With that in mind we can see that August saw plenty of growth, but things slowed rather markedly in September. The losers are Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, as the graphs below show both have dipped markedly since Windows 10's debut.
When we crunch the ratings companies' numbers we find Windows 7 is down about an average of four per cent and Windows 8.1 is down around two, results that neatly match the Windows 10 result.
Adding another one per cent market share during September is no mean feat: any company that achieved that outcome over a single month would be proud of the outcome.
Is Microsoft? The company always finds a reason to talk up a Windows launch, so in public it will be saying everything's gone just swimmingly. The Reg suspects it's not a stellar launch. Windows 8.1 did not, by all accounts, win many friends in business... yet the majority of Windows 8.1 users have stuck with the old, frustrating, operating system, despite Windows 10 being free. Why?
Windows 7, meanwhile, is stable and doesn't need to be replaced in a hurry on the business desktop, no matter what Microsoft might say about Windows 10's magical empowerment powers. Might the mess of Windows 8.x's interface be deterring the rump of Windows 7 users from going anywhere near a tiled interface?
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Interesting. I've been saying to folks, "If you liked 8, you should love 10". :-)
Clearly, such things are very much a matter of individual taste.
I recall many complaints about Win7 and User Account Control (UAC).
When I finally got a Win7, UAC was maddening as I started installing software programs. I disabled UAC almost immediately.
The point being, that with the tiles turned off, which is the default, there is absolutely no difference between win10 and win 7, except for a much faster, snappy interface. Edge seems to need perhaps a bit of work regarding some ad heavy websites but I almost always use Firefox with adblocker.
My desktop remained as it was, I seem to have a better computer as far as syncing data on my network, and it still has windows explorer.
I also appears to use less memory, about 10% or so less. At least on my box it does..
Cortana seems to work fine and you can integrate it with the browser. You can also turn on speech and speech to text if you like that sort of thing to make Cortana seem like siri..
But frankly speaking, it looks and feels like a better win 7 machine. I never jumped at win 8...I tried the beta and I hated it. But win 7 was becoming top heavy with hundreds of updates and was not performing well anymore.
If you like, (which is what I did) you can image your current “C” drive, (I prefer DVD’s) and then load 10.....use it for a couple days and check it out...If you don’t like it there is a provision to roll it back, but I just used my image to make sure everything returned to the way it was. I had install issues initially, which turned out to be a third party driver issue. Now fixed.
But I never had any issues with my 64bit laptop...win 10 improved it dramatically. I loaded it the first day it became available..no issues noted..
I wouldn’t say it’s peaked. I want 10... eventually. I don’t believe in upgrading OSes. My theory is if the current OS is working don’t @#%^ with it and if it’s not adding another OS over the top usually doesn’t fix it. But when it’s time for a new machine I’ll get 10. Maybe even do it on an upgrade wave on a second HDD in dual boot. I’m sure there’s plenty of others that will get 10 as a clean install.
I bought a specced out new laptop that came with Win 8.1, which was super unstable. So I upgraded to Win10, which is equally unstable. Went back to my old Win7 laptop for work until I can procure a non-OEM copy of Win7 for my new laptop, which until then is relegated to streaming media.
Nope.
I am waiting until I hear a bit more about it before I switch.
There have only been two systems I have been eager to switch out, Millennium and Vista.
I’ll probably end up going to Linux or Mac and run the stuff I need or want to run in windows using the older (good) versions of Windows in VM’s. The Mac OS is probably easier to learn and more convenient to use than Linux, but I don’t generally like Apple hardware, so it’s probably Linux.
You have a clean install option with the free upgrade if you want to do it.
But then I’d have to be in the mood to do an upgrade and jack in another HDD.
If you have IE11 on your computer, they are still there. Edge is a separate browser and you’ll have to import your bookmarks from IE11 to Edge. Easily done.
W10 works great for me on my Intel i7 Lenovo with 8gig of memory.
I found that W10 improved both my older 64bit desktop and laptop.
Both were running W7, getting creaky and didn’t want to update certain programs nor accept any W7 updates.
All that has cleared up and they both run much faster. No errors or problems with drivers. I ended up using the Media Creation Tool on both as I couldn’t get either one to download the notification software.
I also loaded W10 on a 10 year old Lenovo 32bit laptop with only 2 gig of memory. It started life with Vista (I had no problems with Vista either). Went through updates to W7 and now W10 with no issues. The case is cracked and the keyboard no longer works (usb keyboard does though), but, it is a nice little toy to play with.
The main issue with W10 (and with W7, Vista and all the rest) was that you had to exceed the minimum requirements for the software to get anywhere. I know friends of mine who had lots of problems with Vista and even reverted back to XP, but, all they had to do was upgrade the memory in their computer and it would have worked fine.
Yes...so obvious, but it created so much baloney. It's always been a issue with RAM, and now I think we all will need a SSD. These add on drives are supposed to be the cats meow, so to speak. They eliminate the long boot times..but I keep mine runnin 24/7 anyway..
I don’t have a SDD in mine, just a 1 Terrabyte HDD.
Do as you wish but, I have had good service so far from W10.
Just like I had from XP, Vista, and W7.
I’m not complaining....I had one major issue upgrading, but I solved it on the third attempt. It had to do with a Nvidia driver that is not working and it is the win10 upgraded driver...It just won’t work with my old Dell vista mother board that has a Intel built in video array. For some reason the new driver corrupts it’s self because of the board.
Solved it by forcing the old driver back...I tried deleting the new one but win update just loads it back...so I compromised. I loaded the old driver, allowed win 10 update to replace it, then I rolled it back, keeping both drivers..
Weird situation, but not problems so far and it’s, been 5 days..
As to the SSD drive....My machine, a original Vista, upgraded to win 7 and now to win 10 is slow on the bootup, always has been since the win 7 update...too much stuff in the registry I figure, and I have a lot of add ons..3 drives, a Bluetooth dongle..every usb slot is full.
The SSD would cut that boot time by a factor of ten, I figure...as it is now, it takes about 5 minutes to boot, so I leave it running 24/7..
I got ya!
My Vista (it started as a Vista home BASIC) 32bit. I bought it for $50 bucks and upgraded the heck out of it. Specially when I noticed that it was actually a 64 bit computer.
It loves W10. I did have a driver issue, but, Acer’s website helped out.
It’s a great little computer.
My Lenovo 32bit is the surprise. It’s 10 years old and has been through the wringer, but, keeps chugging away. At one point, when the Hard disk failed, I was running it with Linux on a CD. I swiched it to Linux on a thumbdrive, but, went back to Windows when I finally got a replacement harddisk.
Same here... Like I want to provide information to another very large company so they can distribute it at their discretion...geez.
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