Posted on 12/11/2015 9:07:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Microsoft took a gamble when it gave every Windows 7 and 8 license holder a free upgrade to Windows 10 and it looks to be paying off. Within less than six months of the release of the new operating system, Microsoft has secured a near 10 percent stake of the OS market with its new system, edging ever closer to that billion-install number Microsoft wants so badly.
These numbers come from a new NetMarketShare report which still has Windows 7 as the most popular operating system in the world, with a 56.11 percent share. However Windows 10 has cemented itself firmly in fourth place and is only a couple of points behind both Windows XP and Windows 8.1, both of which have approximately 11 percent of the global OS market.
What's most impressive about this is that this shows a continued strong rate of adoption of Windows 10. While it saw its biggest upswing shortly after release, it's still growing by around a percent of the market every month. If it continues at this rate, it won’t be more than a couple of years before W10 is the new dominant OS.
This would go well with Microsoft's plan to have the OS installed on over a billion devices within three years. It needs that heavy adoption too, as it gives it a much bigger audience to market its subscription-based application too.
The landscape of OS adoption is even more in Microsoft's favor if you look at only Steam gamer operating system choices. Windows 10 is currently the second-most popular OS on the platform, sitting just behind Windows 7, with a share just shy of 29 percent. That number has grown by 2.39 percent in the past month, cannibalizing both Windows 7 and 8.1 in doing so.
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I’m happy with it. The edge browser still leaves much to be desired but overall other than a few minor annoyances I’m happy. I like it much better than Windows 8 which I skipped for my home desktop since I didn’t see the point.
Windows 10 is much better than 8 (not a hard feat) but I still prefer 7.
I note that the version 7 share is still almost 3 times the combined share of its successors. If people switch, it may only be because Microsoft forces them to, or because they abandon Windows altogether.
I wish they would stop harassing me to upgrade to 10. I just bought a new Windows 7 PRO system over the summer and have no intention of EVER upgrading.I want windows 7. That is why I bought this machine and not a Windows 8.
The Edge browser works like total crap on both machines I installed Win10 on. It caused me to finally switch to Firefox.
I installed the W10 update on my Dell laptop and it worked quite well, much better than W8. However, when I attempted to do the same on my Dell desktop, it froze after installing. Had to reinstall W7.
What’s wrong with Edge?
I shrunk my Windows 7 partition and installed Linux Mint 17.3 as the default operating system. When I’m running Mint, I never get the Windows 10 nag. :-)
Ten(64bit) is much slower than Seven(32bit) in their very similar VirtualBoxes on the same machine.
I have an extra hard drive for my desktop and upgraded its Win7 to Win10.
I didn’t care for Win10 at all. The UI makes the program windows difficult to read. Small slidebars are invisible until one moves the curser, and they are very narrow.
I have Win7 on another hard drive and prefer it.
My laptop is also Win7.
If MS ever returns the classic theme UI, I will consider Win10. Until then, MS/Win10 can go suck eggs.
Several sites give information on removing the Win10 notificiation.
Check these Google links:
https://www.google.com/#q=windows+7+update+notice+for+windows+10
Also, this one [with pix] on how to uninstall the KB3033583 update culprit:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/how-stop-windows-10-upgrade-downloading-your-system
I like Windows 10. It’s not a bloated resource hog like Vista was and it seemed to take what was good in Win7 and Win8.
I know people have mentioned the spying and tracking stuff in Win10, but it hasn’t bothered me.
Edge is based on IE11 but with all of the old cruft removed. No more ActiveX controls, no more code to support pages written with HTML optimized for IE5.5, etc. Microsoft was trying to drop the dead weight with Edge. Basically, they started working on Edge based on the IE11 code base, but first stripped out everything that had to do with backwards compatibility and interfered with a robust HTML5 implementation.
With all of that old stuff removed there are still a few holes in the implementation. A lot of older web sites use technology (that needs to go away) that MS stripped out support for.
A lot of enterprise customers have lots of legacy stuff that depends on the old IE stuff, so IE 11 will be with us for a good long time.
Win 7 is much better when you look at the event viewer errors on win 10 that are too numerous to count on all my pc’s, even the new one that came with win 10 installed. Frequently the win 10 new pc requires restarting to get rid of freezes, glitches etc. The browser is much slower on the web.
However, we love the apps and ability to use touch screens etc. So if we pretend we don’t know anything about computers other than turning them on and off, we are in good shape.
Pretty weak after trying so hard to give it away.
Do you see XP around?
You can’t fight technology. Stuff for Windows 7 is going to get phased out soon.
“If people switch, it may only be because Microsoft forces them to”
No one is being “forced” to do anything.
It’s like whenever MS brings out a new OS, if it isnt at 100% in 4 months, it’s because no one wants it.
And for all of the “I’m witching to Linux” tirades, it seems to never get Linux passed the usage numbers of Vista.
“Pretty weak after trying so hard to give it away.”
9% = over 100 million.
That’s more users than OSX and Linux combined.
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