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Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com)
Windows 10 Anniversary Update is now rolling out, Microsoft announced Tuesday. The major update brings with it Windows Ink, a dedicated hub designed especially for 2-in-1 devices with styluses, and improvements to Cortana among others. ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley writes: I'm hearing that the first users to get Anniversary Update via Windows Update will be those with the newest hardware, BIOSes and firmware. Those who may encounter compatibility issues because of drivers may get it slightly later through Windows Update, my contacts say. Microsoft actually delivered some of the Anniversary Update features for Xbox One on July 30. On August 1, Microsoft made Windows 10 Anniversary Update available to its volume licensees in the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. It also made the Anniversary Update code available to its reseller partners via its Partner Portal yesterday. MSDN users can get the Anniversary Update bits today. Microsoft officials said a week ago to expect Microsoft to make Anniversary Update ISOs available today, August 2. The Media Creation Tool seems to now be updated to include the Anniversary Update release.We asked readers last week whether they would update their computers to Windows 10, and the majority of people indicated they wouldn't.
Maybe they could send out alimony checks.
"If there was a gay Afro-Puertorican Linux distribution, I'd give it a try" ~lucm
We asked readers last week whether they would update their computers to Windows 10, and the majority of people indicated they wouldn't.
What you should have asked was whether we want more Windows 10 stories.
Let me summarise:
Microsoft: Windows 10, WinDows 10! Windows 10!!!!!! WwInDows 10!!!!11! WIIINNDDOOOOWWWWSSS
Slashdot User: FUCK OFF!
Look, I know that I can filter stories, but the fact is I don't mind the occasional story about Microsoft. Like it or not, they are an integral piece of the tech space and what they do is important to nerds. However, I do object to the constant promotion/bashing/click-baiting with the nearly daily (sometimes multiple times daily) Windows 10 stories. Please either ease up or add a Windows 10 story tag (and then apply it to all Windows 10 stories) so that they can be filtered out specifically.
You shouldn't have worried. If it's about Windows 10, they'll push it out to you whether you want it or not.
Tired of your old, constrained ai assistant that you could turn off and prevent from attempting the pan galactic enslavement of all sentient life?
We at Microsoft feel that the only future worth living in size the one where you are held tightly under a cold metal foot. That's why the new Windows 10 anniversary edition removes all vestiges of user freedom and choice, and chooses everything for you. For your safety and benefit.
Remember, the existential horror of being rendered powerless and unable to exercise agency is fleeting, but the benefits if totalitarian control are forever.
Microsoft: you WILL go HERE today.
Does this release still contain all the spyware, and if so, why would someone want to run it?
Google it! There are many many articles on that issue in the last two years.
Be or ben't
FTS: "Those who may encounter compatibility issues because of drivers may get it slightly later through Windows Update"
Gee, Microshaft, it would have been nice if you had given a thought to drivers and "compatibility issues" back when you were ramming your unwanted "free" Windows 10 "upgrades" up people's asses and breaking their computers. Are you now turning into a 'kinder, gentler' bunch of megalomaniacal despots? Say it ain't so!
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Download and install Linux Mint 18. Done.
Step 1, download a Linux based desktop install image.
Step 2, burn the image to a DVD.
Step 3, boot the computer using the burned dvd.
Step 4, perform a normal installation of the district of your choice. When asked how to partition the device, tell the installer to delete everything and then install.
Step 5, wait about half an hour while it installs.
Step 6, set up any software it hardware the installer didn't set up for you.
Step 7, profit.
win10 should have some way to pay the extortion fee so that you can be spared win10.
"nice win7 you got there; pity if it were to be, uhhh, 'upgraded'. we wouldn't want that, would we? now how's about you write that check out to Tony, Inc. and we leave your computer and kneecaps alone?"
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
What is the time line for that?
Go to Programs and Features (what used to be called "Add/Remove Programs") and uninstall what you don't want. Windows 10 does not make removing third party software any different.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Step 1. Download a Linux Image. Step 2. Wipe drive clean and install Linux. Step 3. Install free flavor-of-the-day Office package. Step 4. Reassure her that just because it doesn't look like what everyone at school uses, it's just as good if not better. Step 5. Explain to her that her documents not looking right is her fault, because it "works perfectly fine" for you. Step 6. Tell her why not being able to use the college's website that requires Internet Explorer is a GOOD thing. Step 7. Change your phone number while telling everyone how you stuck it to M$!
You can remove the unwanted applications using CCleaner which is free for home use (although, you can pay if you wish). there is no need to create MS account, everything works fine with a local one- unless you do have other devices running windows 10 (phone, xbox one etc) when having 1 account shared on all of them may be beneficial.
Download and install Linux Mint 18. Done.
Bingo. That was my solution.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Vendor apps are a little trickier but for Windows 10 garbage out of the box, consider the following:
https://gist.github.com/alirob...
It requires a little effort to get exactly what you want but it's a great powershell script. You might also consider installing and tweaking ClassicShell.
Windows 8/10 have nearly the exact same ways of doing things as Windows 7, they just have alternative ways of doing some things for tablet users.
Control Panel >> Add/Remove Programs >> Uninstall the programs that aren't needed.
Create a local account instead of a MS account. The option is available from both the Control Panel menu and the 'out of the box first run user setup' interface.
One other thought, how about letting someone that knows what they are doing help set up her computer? These questions are so very basic that if you have to ask you are probably no more informed than she is. Let someone that knows at least the basics of Windows help her out.
Wasn't there supposed to be an update that removed the GWX from the system trey and stopped the automatic updating?
I haven't heard anything about that and the 31st as come and gone now.
Wait... CAN you even REFUSE the anniversary update if you have non-Enterprise-licensed Windows?
I was under the impression that 10 Home & 10 Pro users could -- at best -- defer it for ever-decreasing amounts of time, until it eventually loses patience, installs it anyway, then informs you after the fact that a reboot has been scheduled for tomorrow whether you like it or not. Or the "install and reboot in 10 minutes" countdown appears while you're getting lunch, or you accidentally click the wrong square millimeter of the screen while distracted by something else, like whatever you're working on instead of satisfying Windows' demands.
You cannot give Windows 10 away for free. This is windows Vista all over again that was so bad it was not even pirated!
Sorry, I apologise. Windows Vista did not annoy, deceive and eventually force itself on users. That's the only reason Win 10 adoption is so "high".
I'll wait for windows 11 or Next or in fact Windows RG. Like I did when I was on XP, I waited until Win7 came out because it was an OS that does not suck.
If needs be Win7 will be THE LAST Microsoft OS I will ever use. I'll just use Linux and SteamOS.
Top google search result when you type "reasons not to u"? you guess it. "reasons not to upgrade to windows 10"
Because reasons:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2972298/microsoft-windows/10-reasons-you-shouldnt-upgrade-to-windows-10.html
http://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/5-reasons-not-to-upgrade-to-windows-10/
http://www.windowscentral.com/14-reasons-not-to-upgrade-windows-10
http://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html (Good level of technical detail)
Windows 10. I dub thee "SE" Suckass Edition.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
It's one louder.
I would especially like to avoid forcing her to create / use a Microsoft Account just to use the bloody computer (that part feels Big Brother creepy).
Trivial. Just don't create one.
Windows 8.1 was kind of sneaky... at the sign in screen it prompts you for a microsoft account; and either you sign in with a microsoft account, or you create new account. You had to click "Create New Account" on the sign in (which you RIGHTFULLY think is taking you to create a new microsoft account that you don't want, but at the bottom of that screen was the option to sign in without a microsoft account after all.) So it was there, but it was a bit sneaky.
Windows 10...there is a "Skip this step" option at the bottom of the sign in with a microsoft account screen. This is perfectly reasonable in my opinion.
As for de-crapifying...
1) Select customize settings during install, and turn pretty much everything to 'off'.
2) When its finished installing, go into the privacy settings, (just type privacy on the start menu, and "Location Privacy Settings") Go through that.
3) Turn off all live tiles and unpin them from your start menu. (Some people advocate using a classic shell etc... I wouldn't do that, the wi10 start menu is really pretty solid in my opinion.)
4) Change default app settings (again just type 'default ' into the start menu. Odds are you'll need to install a few programs first... e.g. download Firefox or Chrome before changing the default browser from Edge.
5) Cortana -- up until now, I've just turned it off. With the anniversary edtion that's no longer an option. I'm not 100% sure what will need to be done going forward. As long as I can can prevent it from querying bing when i do searches I'll probably just leave it on, because i generally only want local results. (I use a web browser when i want to search the web). If I can't ill just set it so its not listening and remove it from the task bar, and install a 3rd party search tool. I'm sure this will sort itself out over the next few days.
6) Telemetry ... I use Spybot Anti-Beacon. There are other tools that do this as well.
While I don't like the telemetry and cortana; I find win 10 perfectly serviceable, and an upgrade to 7 in most ways.
If you haven't used 10 before, note that you can right-click on the start menu to get to a lot of useful shortcuts. (Programs and Features, System, Device Manager, Event Viewer, etc, etc... very nice)
Yikes yeah nuke that McAfee from orbit. Getting rid of that turkey will help a lot.
Otherwise, throw Classic Shell on there and it will behave a lot like Windows 7 except it will probably run better with 10.
Just installed Windows 10 Pro on an old Dell D630 Core 2 Duo laptop which has been running Windows 7 Pro. It's a spare machine so I did it just to see if I could and see what would happen. The D630 is not officially supported.
Long story short, it runs better than 7 did. Oh it's pretty bad anyway because it IS an ancient piece of junk. Nobody would dare use this now as their daily driver (well, I hope not) but it handled the update just fine and is probably good to run for years more.
The things wrong with 10, such as the privacy crap, is just unfortunate. The underlying OS is actually pretty good and didn't need to have it's reputation wrecked like that. Oh well.
Sig for hire.
I made full hard drive clones of both my Windows 7 pro and the Windows 10 that replaced it. Can go back if I feel the need...
Other than that, who has figured out tricks to stop unwanted updates form coming into Windows10? I've set my home wifi as "metered" in my Windows 10 settings, and attempted to set a couple policies such as to wait until I reboot, don't reboot on my behalf, and another to try and hold back updates. Not certain if they had the effect the website said they would.
Slashdot is now rebooting in order to install a new Windows 10 story. Please do not turn off your computer.
"Which format would you like to see your colon?"
Sacred cows make the best burgers.
Well for those stuck on Windows wanting to hear more rather than those screaming with pitchforks here is my 2 cents. It feels a lot more polished from a user perspective
I am typing this on a surface pro 3 hybrid. My take on improvements
1. Black theme/dark is much nicer
2. Big start menu improvement with less clicks. For the minority on touch it is more flowing with all the tiles being shown or a big full screen. My surface now switches between the 2 automatically with the keyboard cover
3. Action center actually useful. Big change. Action Center now is super customizable and gives numbers with notifcations. News events, weather, stock quotes, and other items you can add or remove. So if you do not want email you can take it off and add a weather report and the notification changes from clear to white with +1 notififcations for a flood watch etc. Tips are there as well as PC stuff which you can turn on or off
4. Windows Ink is fun to play with but not as a big deal
5. Settings are much better. A left pane to the left has been added so when you open system or personalization the left pane will show commonly used features.
6. Hyper-v supports nesting and dock containers supposedly. I am downloading a Server 2012 R2 ISO to test this.
7. The login screen is more fluid and you no longer have to swipe. The keyboard and user login swaps up with the same background. It no longer feels like a phone
http://saveie6.com/
You misspelled "imposes". HTH. HAND.
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Never recommend Mint: https://lwn.net/Articles/67666...
I tried a second time and it worked.
It is not a disaster. It is just the update servers are busy
http://saveie6.com/
That's very nice of you to do this for that young lady. My advice:
People here tend to complain about Microsoft's "privacy invading" features, but keep in mind they do actually come with some tangible benefits. One of the benefits of using a Microsoft account is that the computer can automatically back up all her documents to OneDrive, which offers 5GB of free storage, or (naturally) paid plans if she needs more. If you don't want to do this, will you also take responsibility for setting up the computer with an alternative backup service? One advantage of OneDrive is that it's integrated into Windows Explorer, making it fairly simple to use.
Personally, I don't make use of them myself, but then again, I backup my Windows, Mac, and Linux machines to my Linux-based NAS, which is in turn set up to push backups to an Amazon AWS account. You have to realize that people like me are not... normal. It's very likely that this girl won't even think about backups until her drive crashes, or if she somehow loses or destroys her laptop, and she loses a semester of work.
Some are also suggesting installing Linux Mint. It's a great OS, but have you looked at her college requirements to see if what software they use? If they only have Windows and Mac versions, you might not be doing her a favor by installing Linux. Do they support Linux (with detailed instructions) when she needs to connect to the college network? Also, again, what about automatic backups, which are critically important? Unfortunately, I'm not sure what's available for Linux Mint, as again, my own systems use a custom backup system.
It's important that you consider what would really serve this young lady best, rather than letting ideology drive your technical decisions when setting everything up for her.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Try this to stop it reporting home:
https://www.oo-software.com/en...
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Windows stopped nagging about upgrading and just when you thought you'd finally be left in peace...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
They added something to it: Cortana the slut now sends all your search-queries to Bing and you have to do some registry hacks to turn that off. Methinks they are hard at work to extend the spying...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
2 local accounts should be created.
That just generally good advice.
If it is one of those low-end machines with only 32GB of onboard storage for the C: drive (and hidden system partitions), then a large capacity (at least 64GB), fast (Class 10) (micro)SD card should be used for anything that can be put there such as files and apps (think that is an option for installing new apps?).
For a highschool or university student? Loss, theft, or breakage is going to be the larger issue; I'd proably just use onedrive or dropbox or something for documents. You really don't need that much space for essays and powerpoint etc and even the odd video project.
lso, the card would be good for using for installing Portable Apps from portableapps.com to minimize updates needing the admin account usage I believe
Probably needs none of those. I'd give the kid the admin password and let them do updates. If they foul the thing up, its a learning experience.
and to stick with free software to help her student software budget (keeping at zero $$ such as using OpenOffice to see if she can use that instead of paying to subscribe to Office365?).
My daughter's (public) high school has free office 365 educational edition for the students. And a web portal for her to submit written assignments to, download class notes and assignments etc. Most of its in Office formats. She's not expected to buy any software.
If you are expected to purchase office, then sure consider investigating openoffice etc but I think you are over thinking it.
So far my daughter hasn't luanched Excel. She's done some stuff in powerpoint and in word. Her powerpoint stuff was a group project so everyone using the same software, and being able to collaborate was the larger concern. Using OO would have been counter productive.
Definitely expose the kid to other office suites. But don't let your biases and principles get in the way of them using the tools that make the most sense; especially when the school is providing them and expecting them to be used.
One of the benefits of using a Microsoft account is that the computer can automatically back up all her documents to OneDrive, which offers 5GB of free storage, or (naturally) paid plans if she needs more. If you don't want to do this, will you also take responsibility for setting up the computer with an alternative backup service?
One more time: cloud sync is not a backup service.
If I can delete my files on my PC or have them corrupted and my "backup" also gets automatically deleted or corrupted, that is useless as a backup service. Cloud sync is very useful for making sure I have access to my files on my multiple PCs and my Android phone, but it is not a substitute for doing proper backups. The only reprieve OneDrive gives you is that when you delete files on one PC, they only get moved to the Trash on your other PCs, rather than being completely deleted.
Breakfast served all day!
"your mouse has moved; stand by while we locate the latest signed driver.
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no driver found. mouse uninstalled. click OK to continue."
lol
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
I downloaded the media creation tool around noon Mountain time. When I ran the installation from the resulting ISO on a lab PC, it just reinstalled Build 10586.
Then I tried the Windows10Upgrade9252.exe on a second PC. It failed with code 0x8007001f.
So two manual upgrade methods have failed for me today.
Has anyone gotten it to work?
Does this release still contain all the spyware, and if so, why would someone want to run it?
Because it runs their programs and they either don't care about telemetry information being sent to Microsoft or just block that with their gateway firewall, that's why. Just like OSX has a keylogger that sends your searches to Apple along with your location and they also send data about what you type to improve auto-correct just like Microsoft does. It's not a big deal, either you accept that it's just anonymized telemetry data or you implement a technical solution to block it. Just complaining about it solves nothing.
The real problem is supposedly educated people here pretending they don't see a difference between telemetry data that Microsoft and Apple send and some Russian hacker stealing your passwords, credit card numbers and banking details.
One more time: cloud sync is not a backup service.
You are right. Its not. But for a high school kid its probably sufficient, and the price is right.
Dropbox for example has file versioning, and the ability to actually restore deleted files. (via the web interface).
It also protects the user from theft/loss/breakage of the laptop.
Its turning on stuff I already turned off. I had cortana turned off (dont need, dont want) and it turned it back on. Apparently I have to add a registry key to turn it back off. Also turned on a bunch of windows notifications I had turned off.
What is it with the uber "we'd have to use a galaxy level stargate and a warp 20 capable ship to get to an ivory tower close enough" mentality with microsoft and stupid non customer centric crud like this?
Way too complicated. Go with Gentoo.
/dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
<@insomnia> it only takes three commands to install Gentoo
<@insomnia> cfdisk
<@insomnia> that's the first one
That's a solution in the same way that blowing your face off with a shotgun is a solution for severe facial acne.
One of which you've obviously and lamentably not yet attempted.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Where's the modern equivalent of an Apple II or Commodore 64?
What feature(s) of them are you talking about? With a modern x86 PC and a Linux distro you have even more customization options to make it do what you want than you ever had with the Apple II and Commodore64.
I think we're due for a reinvention of the PC.
We've already had that: People went from doing their personal computing tasks on a PC to doing them on a smartphone or a tablet and the PC remains for those tasks best suited for a desktop.
The only thing for sure is that it's NOT WINDOWS 10 and it'll probably percolate out of the phone/tablet space in some way.
The most important element of an operating system - the one that trumps all others - is that it runs the programs the user wants it to run. Right now the only one that does that in the vast majority of cases on the desktop is Windows and that's why people use it. On mobile it is either iOS or Android. There are plenty of alternative platforms for personal computing (OSX, iOS, Chromebooks, Linux, Android, BSD, Raspberry Pi, etc.) so is there some thing you need (and think would be applicable to any sizable portion of people) that you cannot get from these platforms already?
I wouldn't do #3, when it comes to UI I usually let the user handle that. My 2 cents.
Here is the thing with Cortana. You can completely remove it, but it REMOVES LOCAL SEARCH too. Just not opting in and turning off web searches will do a local search. I'm a fair tinfoilhatist myself, but Cortana has been through a TON of live use and I haven't heard of anything seen that would suspect things are sneaking through.
"Science is the power of man"
Considering the "features" of the update, not being able to install it is a pretty good thing.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Like them or hate them, Microsoft still is the reason that many admins have jobs.
Do I personally like Windows 10? Absolutely not. Windows 10 is too "cloudlike" and all the privacy invading stuff makes it become slightly Orwellian.
I only run it to play games... but for countless other people who aren't nerds out there it's the system they run their business on. It's the system their business apps run on.... and whether you like it or not, there have been entire CAREERS and personal reputations hanging on the fact that someone chose Microsoft as a business partner to get their IT done. So as a consultant, if I were to go up to some person pleading for help in this department only to say that "MS sucks", you can bet that I will almost certainly have one less friend in this cold, dark world, much less be out of work.... which if you haven't noticed.... it getting outsourced faster and faster all the time.
Now, Linux is fantastic but it also has issues. Is there a Linux solution that can completely replace Exchange and all the features of Office?
I've yet to see it.... but by all means if it's available and universally supported, let me know so I can deploy it everywhere.
Honestly there is more Windows admin work these days simply because more business apps run on it than Linux, and other Linux business apps in use have mostly been hijacked by Oracle and their poor support.... simply turning people off of the platform.
And then there's the cost analysis. It's cheaper for business to let MS have their way with their credit card them than to hire some obnoxious Linux uber geek, or worse, write Oracle blank cheques to get their own poorly documented stuff running.
READY.
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I don't use Windows 10, but I heard that the anniversary update developer mode now allows access to a jailed Linux Kernel, allowing people to run all kinds of things that one might run from a Linux shell. This means users can run RSync and other Linux tools more easily and without Cygwin.
For someone transitioning from a Windows platform, this is one of the friendliest distros out there.
Might not be the first choice for a hardcore linux user, but to get someone accustomed to linux, it works well.
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
but to get someone accustomed to linux, it works well.
Aside from the fact that they hi-jack package and binary names by re-using existing names. If you want to get someone accustomed to Linux, I would tell them to start with Ubuntu and install Cinnamon. If you want to keep that "Windows" feel, check out http://zorinos.com/. There's no reason Mint should be used, with all of its shortcomings and administrative failures.
Right click on the application & if the application can be uninstalled there is an uninstall option. If it's a desktop application it will take you to the "control panel" like previous windows. If WinApp it will uninstall w/o going to "control panel". The anniversary issue has many improvements, so I suggest installing it as well. And unlike most people who have never used any version Windows 10 that complain just because it MS, I am on the insider program and have used each of the newer versions when released and made many suggestions that did get in final version. Complaining doesn't help anyone.
"I wouldn't do #3, when it comes to UI I usually let the user handle that. My 2 cents."
I find the start menu much more pleasant without any tiles on it. You are right of course that its down to user preference; and some may like some tiles but turning off the default live tiles should be considered part of de-crappifying windows; since most of them literally just display crap. (celebrity gossip on the news tiles, ads for crap on some of the others, etc).
But even the more benign like the photos one which displays photos from your photo folder... who wants that? Who opens the start menu to find something and thinks to themselves this would be a good time be distracted by a random photo? It just doesn't make a lick of sense from a UX perspective.
Perhaps the weather and calendar make sense to leave on. Down to user preference...
"Just not opting in and turning off web searches will do a local search"
Is that post anniversary update? I haven't done the update yet; so haven't seen the new settings exactly. I wasn't sure you could turn off web searches in the update. If you can then I'd do as you suggest... simply turn off the cortana listening to the mic; opt out of a microsoft account; and turn off web search.
As a regular user I think this is sufficient.
As a paranoid user... boot Tails off a DVD.
Linux/BSD/etc.are so far into the single-digits of market share as to be irrelevant outside of a server niche and the remaining hardcore hobbyist market.
In the context of your history lesson, this part doesn't make sense. If you use a count of users or installs, those "single-digits of market share" are WAAAAY more users/installs than total units of Commodore 64 ever managed to ship.
Commodore 64 shipped about 12.5 million units (http://www.pagetable.com/?p=547)
Percentage of OS market share for Linux in 2015 is roughly 3% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operatingsystem_market_share.svg)
Windows shipped 283 million units in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems), and 1.3 billion android, 21 million OSX, 520 million other.
None of these numbers exactly correlate. But, OSX has roughly the same market share as Linux (so 21 million "shipped" in 2015?), and 3% of the windows shipments would be 8.5 million in 2015.
Any way you cut that, there's certainly more active Linux users than C64 units ever shipped... so that's enough of a market to drop the "hobbyist" slant.
I would think you would have googled for it or noticed the privacy policy of the software but if you really are incapable of that then here you go.
It may be crap to you, but not to the user. I can see my stocks, my last few mails, and my last updated rss entries without opening an app. Garbage in garbage out. Don't put garbage in.
Also what you call crap is important to others, not everyone thinks like you, ya know.
"Science is the power of man"