Posted on 07/27/2018 4:50:34 AM PDT by dayglored
It's been three months and 16% have their heels firmly planted
[Dayglored note: Ya gotta admit, The Register comes up with some really catchy pics.]
The charge of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update continued into July with 84 per cent of lucky, lucky users seeing their desktops upgraded, according to AdDuplex.
The rate at which the code was flung at PCs slowed a little, which was inevitable considering June's impressive (or alarming, depending on your point of view) 78 per cent penetration of the Windows 10 install-base.
In the absence of official numbers from Microsoft (other than a cheery "it's going really well!"-type comment), the figures from the cross-promotion network for Windows Store apps and games are a handy indicator of what is happening at a low level.
The ad network’s July figures will make for happy reading in Redmond. However, the three-year-old Windows-as-a-service continues to struggle to prise Windows 7 market share from the clutches of admins, according to web traffic analysis boffins statcounter.
Those same admins will doubtless be celebrating System Administrator Appreciation Day by, er, not installing Windows 10 again. Next year will be quite a different story as the end of support for Windows 7 looms large.
The adoption rate for future Windows 10 updates is likely to slow as the OS finds its way onto more enterprise desktops and admins stick to longer-term servicing plans. However, in the meantime, the rate at which Microsoft has been able to shovel code onto PCs remains undeniably impressive. ®
In which case 16% is an interesting figure.
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You don’t need support. Run your own free programs. See previous posts. Runs fine. (Win 7)
My iPhone weened me from my windows laptop. My next computer will be a Mac.
I read the headline as the 10 update will consume 84% of the space on the computer.
Must sleep soooon
LOL
They must have disguised it very well, as I can’t find anything referring to Win-10 in the April listings, in Windows Update History, in Control Panel.
Microsoft trying to backstop their new business model..
‘operating system as a service’
they now do not have to hold on to NT/XP/Vista/7/8 engineers to keep up with security and updates. No more end of life for complete operating systems to deal with. The target has narrowed, win 10 is now the Maginot line of desktop computing, and all MS has to do is keep working on the walls.
Heaven for-fend they lock their stuff down...where would all the security jobs go?
YMMV
KYPD
That’s the one where ms dropped the “homegroup” from the os; no notice, no warning. It’s just gone, and if you have win7 and use it to network your pc’s, well, you’re just SOL.
A bunch of snot-nose college boys - no idea of production quality.
And, while I’m at it, has anyone on earth ever had the ms “troubleshooter” ever actually fix a problem??????
Don’t overlook the Mac Mini - solid machine that starts at $499.
Systems under the CBB--Current Branch for Business, do not have to deploy it for up to six months, and if testing proves issues Microsoft supplies code to keep it off. I still use the term CBB but technically they changed it to Semi-Annual Branch Channel (Broad).
According to Microsoft, in this servicing plan:
"Windows 10 will have feature updates released twice a year via the Semi-Annual Channel (SAC). Your device needs to install the latest version (feature update) before your current version reaches end of service to help keep your device secure and have it remain supported by Microsoft."
The end of service life depends on the version number, but currently, 1607 WAS in April, 1703 is October, 2018, 1709 is April 2019, and this version, 1803 is in Nov 2019.
And:
"Enterprise and Education editions for versions 1511, 1607, 1703 and 1709 will receive an additional 6 months of servicing after the end of service date. Note: Not all features in an update will work on all devices. A device may not be able to receive updates if the device hardware is incompatible, lacks current drivers, or is otherwise outside the original equipment manufacturer’s (OEM) support period. "
For those looking, the update changes the version number of Windows 10. This and the current version is version number 1803.
An iPad?
No, it’s a full blown Mac, just add a keyboard, mouse and monitor:
https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/
Also available (as are all Apple products) from the Apple Refurbished store (same warranty):
https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/mac_mini
Enjoy!
Have not ran a single Win 10 update on my laptop PC for over a year now. I don’t permit them to run. I changed my “network” setting for the laptop to “metered”, and without Win has to ask if I want the update to run, and I just say no, every time. For each day, after the 1st attempt, I go into task manager and kill the win processes that lead to the Win 10 update seeking to run. It is all less a pain than what a Win 10 update in early 2017 did to my laptop; too many programs would not run at all, not even start to execute, as if their exe file was not an eze file at all.
It’s bad when 10 days into the windows 10 install you already know your product key without looking.
They can have my Win7 when they pry it from my cold dead keyboard.
The Mac Mini is an awesome little machine. I've used them as my hardware platform of choice at home for over a decade. MacOS and applications can do everything I normally need to do, other than a few Windows-only applications. And for web browsing and email, MacOS is generally considered more secure, although Windows has caught up a lot in recent years.
When I need Windows, I can use BootCamp to make it dual-boot, in which case the Windows OS gets the full machine resources, or use VM host software (Fusion, VirtualBox, etc.) to create a Windows VM within MacOS. The VM gets only some of the system resources, but that's usually enough, and having both OSes operating concurrently is extremely convenient.
On my main home machine, it's both -- the VM for light Windows work, reboot into Windows if I have a heavy-duty Win application, and everything else in MacOS.
One suggestion: get an SSD for the hard drive, either as a purchase option, or if you're handy and like ifixit.com, you can replace it yourself cheaper. The improvement in operating speed is very considerable.
Yep, that's pretty bad.
New install - worked until plugged in WiFi adapter. Tried several no dice. Ran cat 5 through house thinking updates would fix. Updater froze. Lost all programs. Tried all the recommendations to fix no dice. Reinstalled same crap, twice. At a loss.
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