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Windows 10 Grabs 5.21% Market Share, Passing Windows Vista and Windows 8
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.
They are using their installed base of Windows computers as an advertising base now. Free always means the ad-filled version, and the version that tracks you and sells information about your surfing habits and preferences. I really hope that this is not the end of Windows as a basic, functional, user friendly operating system. It was never a perfect OS, but Windows 7 got many things right. Windows 10 got many, many things wrong.
An interesting take on the UI of Windows from Josh Fruhlinger at IT World, with many of today's must have's in an OS came from Windows 95, including aspects of OS X.
Link: http://www.itworld.com/article...
A brain is a terrible thing to waste... Mind? That's debatable.
That install me button pissed me off at first but it's actually brilliant. I normally do the updates for systems around my house but when I went to upgrade my wife's laptop she said "Oh, I did that already. Just clicked the button. It was easy."
She's a smart person but upgrading the OS is normally outside her comfort level. They really did a nice job making the process not just easy but approachable.
I ran it for about 2 weeks on a laptop at home used for general browsing, but watching the logs on my firewall were crazy. I couldn't manage to track down all the different *-edge.net domains or other CDN endpoints they were using to relentlessly connect. You basically have to switch to whitelisting. My hosts block file picked up dozens of entries, but after realizing it'd be a never ending cat & mouse game I reverted back to Win7...Unless they stop this crap in a soon to be released patch we'll go back to being a Windows free home when win7 gets bothersome.
Following the "every other version of windows is bad" thing, I count Windows 8.1 as the most recent "good", replacing the "bad" Windows 8. That makes Windows 10 another bad version, which so far sounds accurate given the snooping problems.
Of course I used XP until support ended, still use 7, and never used Vista, 8, or 8.1, so my experience is limited.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
Of course I used XP until support ended, still use 7, and never used Vista, 8, or 8.1, so my experience is limited.
I try not to focus on any one operating system, my test server is Linux, my laptop is a mac and my gaming desktop is Windows.
My message is: If you're staying with 7 then you're missing out. 10 is going to be big.
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