[dayglored]

Yes, it's time again for our occasional "When the heck is Win10 going to overtake Win7?" thread.

It certainly does appear that Win10 is catching up to Win7, albeit a long time after it was originally predicted to.

And NetMarketShare has their own pretty graph which is not nearly so close. But then, NetMarketShare is comparing only the number of desktop and laptop installations, which is a much more "oranges to oranges" comparison, since Win7 was never marketed as a mobile/device OS (as Windows 10 was/is). If the question is "Has Windows 10 caught up to Windows 7?", it doesn't make a lot of sense to include numbers from segments that Win7 was never sold to. Unless, of course, you want to make Windows 10 look like it's beating Win7...

But regardless of presumed agendas, Win10 does keep gaining users, and Win7 does keep shedding users, at least on average.

Two years from now, Jan 2020 will be the cutoff for Win7 extended support. No more security updates. That will be a big deal for a lot of users, especially businesses.

As Jim Morrison used to say, "The future's uncertain but the end is always near."

[dayglored]

Windows 10 catching up to Windows 7... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[Democrat_media]

I'm tired of Windows .

I want to try Linux especially some of the privacy distros that will keep hackers and the government from spying on you.

10 Best Security-Centric Linux Distributions For Privacy Protection In 2018

https://techlog360.com/secure-linux-distributions-privacy-protection/

Anyone tried any flavor of Linux?

[smokingfrog]

What is Win8 doing?

[upchuck]

Windows 7 Pro 64 bit forever person here.

IMHO, MSFT has been amazed that Win 10 has not already overtaken Win 7.

Win 7 is very durable and is still used a bunch in business. I have a good friend who does IT chores for many businesses here in town. Almost all of them are running Win 7 and have no plans to upgrade. A few of his customers tried Win 10 but all have gone back to Win 7.

Some of his customers have business-critical custom code written under Win 7 that will not run under Win 10 without some very expensive rewrites. In some cases the quoted price of the rewrite is more than the original price. And the rewrite must be tested, documentation will need to be changed, etc. Not a cheap investment.

MSFT has put these folks between a rock and a hard place.

[PAR35]

Needed a new laptop recently. The choices were Win10 or Chromebook. Chromebook wouldn’t meet the need, so Win10 picked up some market share. I would have been quite happy with a Win7 (or XP, for that matter).

[blam]

Still real happy with Windows-7.

[butlerweave]

Windows 10 users , is your hard drive running 100% almost all the time ?

[Maudeen]

I’m a Windows 7 fan. Have talked with a few technicians over the phone lately and they all had Windows 7 by choice.

[Svartalfiar]

But regardless of presumed agendas, Win10 does keep gaining users, and Win7 does keep shedding users, at least on average.

Well obviously. M$ no longer offers Win7 on new machines, so basic attrition means that's going to be the trend. As people want/need a new laptop (old one broke, failed, want better specs, etc), their only new choice is Win 10. When I last bought a laptop, they wanted $150 for me to upgrade from Win8 to Win7. Seriously. Also, as the article mentions, many counters have mobile Windows included, and that's going to be 100% + to Win10, even though it's not an area Win7 competes.

[Wilderness Conservative]

I made the mistake of upgrading to W10. Now I have to pay $100 per year for Office 365 if I want to have Word. P!$$es me off.