Posted on 02/01/2016 1:58:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I was somewhat amazed my laptop made the Win 7 >> 10 transition seamlessly.
Somebody told me since Ballmer is gone, customer service isn’t a forbidden term at MS any more.
FROM BUSINESS INSIDER:
http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-10-overtakes-windows-8-market-share-2016-2
The total PC market is thought to contain about 1.5 billion PCs, which means Windows 10 is on about 180 million computers. Microsoft recently announced that 200 million people were using Windows 10, but that is spread across tablets, PCs, and Xbox.
Windows 7 is still the dominant operating system, with a 52% share of the desktop market that includes about 780 million users globally. Mac OS X, the desktop operating system from Apple, has about 75 million users.
Microsoft’s goal is 1 billion people using Windows 10, a figure Apple recently announced its mobile iOS operating system had achieved. The company is giving away Windows free until late July in an effort to increase use.
Well, they forced it on everyone, so the install base of 7 and 8.x pretty much HAD to migrate.
This is just a question of market share for MS overall.
They need to put PDAs in the mix for a proper comparison. Many are abandoning their “computers” for pure PDA.
Well duh, Microsoft 10 has been working hard to trick me into downloading it. I’m sure it’s nailed lots of other people.
That’s nice. I’m sticking with Windows 7.
Free stuff (Windows 10) is always a big seller in a Socialist country.
I have Windows 8. Still trying to figure out the benefits of going Windows 10.
Coercion doesn’t count.
Did you hear that Microsoft acquired Electrolux?
After making numerous design revisions, they will
finally be releasing a product that doesn’t suck!
Microsoft would use roofies on a woman, then brag to their friends that she must really like them.
That is great parallel.
Sick of the daily reminders to upgrade.
They should call it Windows "SPY."
No thanks. I'm not ready for 1984 just yet.
My 8 yr old windows XP crashed and my husband bought a rebuilt 7 that was glitchy. Just bit the bullet and bought a new computer with 10. I don’t do anything fancy so it has been fine. I HATE change so I am glad that I won’t get that constant nagging to upgrade LOL!
Well, I did download an unlicensed copy, from Microsoft, to install into a virtualbox (on my Mac) to check it out.
Not real impressed. Tiles suck! And all the crap you have to turn off so it’s not constantly talking to Redmond; and even then you can’t really be sure unless you have a sniffer running on something else.
No thanks.
I was sitting here on my computer maybe about a couple of weeks ago... and caught windows 10 freaking downloading in the background, without any kind of notification.
I wonder how many other people Microsoft has nailed like that?
If you download Classic Shell (it’s free) you can make Windows 8/8.1 look and feel like Windows 7.
I download it for all of my computer clients.
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