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Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8

Posted by timothy on from the but-my-os-goes-to-11 dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The effects of a free upgrade to Windows 10 are starting to trickle in. Available for just over a month, Windows 10 has now captured more than 5 percent market share, according to the latest figures from Net Applications. In just four weeks, Windows 10 has already been installed on over 75 million PCs. Microsoft is aiming to have 1 billion devices running Windows 10 "in two to three years," though that includes not just PCs, but smartphones, consoles, and other devices as well.

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  1. Misleading title - didn't pass Windows 8 by Pulzar · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows 8 is at 14%, but split between 8 and 8.1.

    I know Window 8 adoption is bad, but it's not *that* bad.

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  2. Re:Just bought my first Windows 10 box by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 5, Informative

    As the waspleg said, the settings to disable telemetry are a placebo, they did not really work unless you are using the Enterprise edition.

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  3. Re: To be expected by Urkki · · Score: 5, Informative

    Make that three, m$ finally pushed me over to kubuntu as a primary OS. I still maintain winblows at work, but I do so from my linux desktop (dual boot, but win 7 is way too slow).

    I recently switched to running an Ubuntu variant on my old work laptop (top-of-the line from 2013), and running Windows as VirtualBox guest for stuff like MS Office and Windows development. Works very nice, all you need is enough memory and an SSD and a decent processor.