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Windows 10 Passes Windows XP In Market Share

Posted by timothy on from the playing-with-numbers dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Six months after its release, Windows 10 has finally passed 10 percent market share. Not only that, but the latest and greatest version from Microsoft has also overtaken Windows 8.1 and Windows XP, according to the latest figures from Net Applications. Windows 10 had 9.96 percent market share in December, and gained 1.89 percentage points to hit 11.85 percent in January. Maybe it will jump even faster soon, but not necessarily for the best of reasons.

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  1. Of course ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because they're kind of forcing people to update, whether they want to or not.

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    1. Re:Of course ... by smooth+wombat · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's like claiming more people have health insurance when you force them to hand over their money to a private company whether they want to or not.

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    2. Re:Of course ... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It's like claiming more people have health insurance when you force them to hand over their money to a private company whether they want to or not.

      How is health insurance different from auto insurance? You're still required to hand over money to a private company whether you want to or not. But society as a whole when everyone gets insured.

    3. Re:Of course ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How is health insurance different from auto insurance?

      Driving is optional. Breathing isn't.

    4. Re:Of course ... by Wdomburg · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Even where insurance is required (not everywhere, and certainly not for people who do own vehicles or drive them on public roads) that's liability insurance, due to the risk you pose to other people and other people's property. It is not a precondition for citizenship or even car ownership.

    5. Re:Of course ... by Junta · · Score: 1, Insightful

      How is health insurance different from auto insurance?

      Health insurance is there to pay for *your* needs. Auto insurance is there to pay for *other's* needs, for whom you are liable.

      I think health is one of those things that doesn't go well with capitalist incentives, but there is an easy to tell difference from mandating liability insurance versus health insurance.

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  2. By design by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem here in the US is that we have neither free market health care nor socialized health care, but rather the bastard offspring of the two combined. The result is not the best of both worlds, but the worst of both worlds: the socalized part serves only to corral the sheep into the shearing barn, where the "free market" part is free to gouge them into financial ruin. The end result is that in the US, medical expenses are the #1 cause of bankruptcy -- and that's by design, my friends. All by design.

  3. Everybody uses health care by sjbe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nobody has to own a car. Obamacare is a tax on existence.

    Please find me a single person who never uses health care and incurs no cost to the system. Go ahead, I'll wait.

    Actually no I won't because there is no such person. EVERYBODY uses the health care system whether they want to or not and therefore everybody should have some skin in the game whether they want to or not. Every other civilized country in the world has figured this out. Auto insurance and health insurance are not and never will be the same because not everybody needs to drive or own a car.

  4. What part of everyone was unclear? by sjbe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Amish

    What about them? They go to hospitals, they use medicines, etc. They require health care just like everybody else. The fact that they try to do it as much as possible within a community does not mean they do not participate in our health care system. Their church acts very much like a private group health insurance program that they all pay into.

    Not everyone believes in private insurance.

    So what? Ideology regarding private versus public insurance is irrelevant. Everybody uses health care whether they want to or not and therefore everybody needs to pay into the system to the extent they are able. Health care is a basic human right and nobody should be unable to get treatment because they are poor. We all need it sooner or later so we all should pay. Most sensible countries have solved this problem with a public health care system. The US has gone a different route (mostly for idiotic ideological reasons) but the result still needs to be that EVERYBODY pays whether they like it or not.

    1. Re:What part of everyone was unclear? by FlyHelicopters · · Score: 1, Insightful

      The Amish don't believe in buying private health insurance.

      That is what about them... But in your rush to counter me, you missed that point.

      I don't mind taking my kids to the doctor and paying the doctor. What you're suggesting is that I should prepay for services I may not need, to make sure my money covers everyone else.

      The only system where that is acceptable is national single payer healthcare. Similar to roads, schools, military, etc.

      The existing private health insurance system is not a part of that.

    2. Re:What part of everyone was unclear? by bondsbw · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Everybody uses health care whether they want to or not and therefore everybody needs to pay into the system to the extent they are able.

      But this doesn't answer the question of whether health insurance as we know it in the US is best for everyone, or even for most people. Asserting that people need to pay does not assert how they need to pay.

      Concierge medicine, where a patient decides not to use insurance but instead pays their doctor on a subscription plan, is an alternative to health insurance that may be much better for many people. Regulation tends not to address people who think outside the box, favoring a particular business model and forcing other possibilities out.

      I like regulation, mind you. I just don't like how it often punishes those who might bring new and workable ideas to the table.

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  5. Re:Late to the game by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, using Win10 is not dumber than using WinXP. At least there is still some kind of support for Win10 instead of using a security nightmare, potentially connected to the internet. "Better" is relative, though. It's kinda like sitting on a pile of broken glass instead of using a rotating saw as a support device for your ass.

    If it was, say, using Win10 instead of Win7, yes, you'd have a case.

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