These guys are such craven lapdogs. Their enthusiasm is almost charming in its innocence, is it not?
Posted on 11/24/2015 7:17:54 PM PST by dayglored
Takeup will be 'significantly more rapid than seen with Windows 7'
The first six months of 2016 will see an upsurge in pilot rollouts of Windows 10, Gartner has predicted.
Many enterprises will then broaden their deployments later in the year with Gartner expecting at least half to have started some form of production deployment by the beginning of 2017, and looking to complete migrations in 2019.
That will help Windows 10 become Microsoft's most widely deployed operating system, following in the footsteps of Windows 7 and Windows XP, Gartner said.
That may, or may not, be what Microsoft wants to hear. Windows XP and Windows 7 both became de facto client standards and getting customers to move onto succeeding versions of Microsoft's software has proved nigh impossible.
Microsoft's declared goal is for Windows 10 to be on one billion devices in the next two to three years. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella claimed in October that 110 million devices were running Windows 10.
(lots more marketing hype at the article link)
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These guys are such craven lapdogs. Their enthusiasm is almost charming in its innocence, is it not?
"There will be tens of millions of users familiar with the operating system before the end of 2015," research vice president Steve Kleynhans said in a statement.How is that a good thing??? Microsoft already claims over 110 million installed copies of Windows 10.
If ONLY "tens of millions" of the users are familiar with the operating system a month from now, what about the other 90 million users? Is Gartner implying that they haven't a clue what they're doing in Windows 10?
Somebody explain this Marketing Speak to me, please...
Is this akin to Gartner’s prognostication in 2011 that Windows Phones would be the number two market share phone in the world with 19.2% of the market by 2015?
This isn’t Rocker Science.
Windows 10 is a free upgrade for most PC users and that offer runs out in 2016. Many, me included, will wait until as many bug fixes have been implemented before making the jump. Ditto enterprise installs.
Gartner cracks me up. They are like the old-time Snake Oil vendor who just keeps going on and on, despite the fact that he's almost always off the mark, and sometimes dead wrong, and sometimes his customers are dead. Gartner appears to me like a the proverbial "woman with no visible means of support". You just KNOW somebody is propping them up.
And that they're giving up something for that hidden support.
But, hey, it's just so cheery to see such unstoppable optimism.
Point well taken. There will likely be a spike in July of 2016 as the one-year interval runs out. Hell, I'll be one of them, too.
But I don't think it's going to account for a large, lasting quantity in the grand scheme of things. It'll be a bump, but it won't make the long-term difference. That's got to come from business customers, and they are very wary and conservative, and they can't be pushed by "free" offers as easily as home consumer users.
Enterprise business customers won't get on this bandwagon for at least another 3 years. Windows 7 has a long life ahead for them.
I’m super excited! So excited that I went and bought my first apple.
MS can take their bug infested software and stick it.
Well, to be fair, it is my experience that most Windows users haven't a clue what they're doing... So yes, the statement about Win 10 would be par for the course. ; )
I was disappointed at first due to Win10’s stability. But now it really is better than Win7, which I loved the first few years. Then I was getting a maxed out CPU with Win7. Now everything’s super quiet and stable. Win10 exceeds my expectations now that the upgrades have come in. Are usage uploads happening with Win7 too?
Maybe. To some degree it's going to depend on Server 2016, and what new features it offers and how much of that will work with down-level clients.
Can we just be the word “surge” please?
Prepare to be thoroughly annoyed with the new windows... As usual.
You all should watch this video about disabling Win10 spying. He explained by Win10 is free by saying that Win10 is not the product, YOU are. You won’t believe just how big of a window Microsoft and the intel agencies have into your life.
Disable Windows 10 Spying - Privacy & Security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kGMCfb2xw
Ah yes, the old "Carrot and Stick" philosophy of improving your product.
People bitch about Apple that way too -- nice new features of one product that only work with the latest release of some other product offering, so that you have to upgrade everything to get a feature from one part of the system.
The technique usually works, I grant that.
OTOH, there are fewer and fewer outfits that are still total "Microsoft shops" where it's absolutely essential that everything be the latest and greatest from Redmond. If Server 2016 has features that were added primarily to have something to wave under the noses of the Admins and Execs, and say, "All you have to do to use this feature is upgrade all your clients to Windows 10", there are fewer outfits that will fall for it.
The NT Server line is very mature. Server is a solid product, as solid as it's gonna get, IMO. All that has changed lately (for my money anyway) is the GUI, which adopted Win8's unfortunate Metro look, much to my dislike on a server OS. Other than that the changes have been just window dressing (so to speak).
So if they try to use 2016 features as an upgrade lever, well, best of luck...
LOL, yeah.... but you know, I'm a big fan of the old Win2000 Classic UI. Quick, trim, simple, easy to use.
The first thing I do with a new XP install is brain-damage it back to W2K Classic, successfully.
The first thing I do with a new Vista install is wipe it and install Win7.
The first thing I do with a new Win7 install is invoke Windows Classic theme, and brain-damage it back to Classic, as far back as it will go, which is most of the way. No Quick Launch bar, but you can define a new custom toolbar on the taskbar that works about the same.
The first thing I do with a new Win8 or 8.1 install is upgrade it to Win10.
The first thing I do with a new Win10 install is scrape all the Metro tile crap out of the start menu and brain-damage it as far back as it will go, which isn't as far as Win7 allows, but is far enough to make the UI useful.
Having done the above, I'm using Windows 10 at work all day every day now and it's okay. I don't like it nearly as much as 7 but it's adequately functional, nice and speedy, stable so far, and once you disable all the spyware crap it feels nice and quiet. I found a few incompatibilities but I'm learning to work around them.
So per your comment, I was only annoyed the first few hours. Once it was properly brain-damaged, all has been pretty good.
HAVE I MENTIONED LATELY THAT I HATE 8.1??
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btw- just discovered something the other day- IF you have a program you’ve worked with for years under older windows, if it doesn’t work with windows 10- windows will uninstall your program on you- some users are reporting they no longer have their old programs in windows 10
I will admit I love my win7 ultimate (64bit) and I don’t want to have to upgrade to win10... I don’t! I don’t! I don’t!
I’m going to wait as long as I possibly can before I have to.
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