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Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time (onmsft.com)
In what may be a signal of changing attitudes for Windows 10, visits to U.S. government sites via Windows 10 have surpassed Windows 7 for the first time. On MSFT reports: This United States government website reports that of the 2.54 billion visits to U.S. Government websites over the past 90 days, 20.9% came from Windows 10, and 20.7% from Windows 7. Interestingly, Windows 8.1 came in at 2.7%, Windows 8 .05%, and other OS 0.8%. The numbers are a bit niche and could be just from a holiday bump based on the sites 90-day average, but they still do give a solid number comparison for the state of various OS and browser stats. When it comes to browser share, Edge was not popularly used to visit U.S. Government websites. Chrome was on top with 44.4%, Followed up Safari with 27.6%, Internet Explorer at 12.3%, and then Firefox at 5.9% and Edge at 3.9%. Though all these government percentages may be bleak for Microsoft, the latest AdDuplex December report also shows strong adoption for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, so things can only go up from Microsoft from here on out.
The calls to the sites was windows 10 reporting home.
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Compared to visits to USA government tracking sites, due to back doors placed in Windows 10, as well as newer Intel and AMD processors with ME and PSP?
I found that it was hard to avoid updates enforced on you - my quick review of the Windows 10 options on computer of my client has shown like 40 days delay before it is to happen anyway. While another notebook hung during that monolith update, with subsequent reversal of whole shebang. If you are engineer, you can start having good ideas of what awaits ahead with Windows 10 style of arrangement. Effectively, you are not even in control of the OS anymore - if this OS to be.
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Of the 2.54 billion visits to U.S. Government websites over the past 90 days:
- 20.9% came from Windows 10
- 20.7% from Windows 7
- 2.7% from Windows 8.1
- 0.05% from Windows 8
- 0.8% from other OS
Either they can't count, or that 0.8% does not include OS X/macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, BSD, etc in which case that 0.8% is the total number of Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 98 and Windows 95 users.
When it comes to browser share:
- 44.4% for Chrome
- 27.6% for Safari
- 12.3% for Internet Explorer
- 5.9% for Firefox
- 3.9% for Edge
Safari is only available on OS X/macOS and iOS, so it's clear the percentages for the OS are only for Windows.
Are they afraid to tell us the number of people who don't use Microsoft on their computers/tablets/phones?
#DeleteFacebook
I only trust Opera, because I know China will never want to share my information with the USA.
#DeleteFacebook
After discontinuing sales of Windows 7 licenses, blocking Windows 7 (and 8 updates) on 7th generation Core CPUs, and forcing malicious upgrades from 7 to 10 without user's consent, Windows 10 is finally starting to surpass 7. I can't believe this was possible.
I'd rather have Windows 10 BLT, but not Windows 10 LGBT.
If it wasn't for all of the dirty tatics that Microsoft made happen, I might be more inclined to trust them. The forced Telemetry was the toughest fo swallow and can't justify it for our users or safe guarding our data. Windows 2016 seems to have forced telemetry built in as well which means we may have to choose another system such as BSD or Linux. These are real discussions happening at our company because of the distrust that Microsoft has enabled.
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Geesh.
It's eye opening to see mobile (iOS and Android) makes up about 43% and desktops only (Windows and Mac) only about 55%. I'm assuming Linux is a lot of the "Other" at 0.7%.
So the FSB is up to date unlike the NT Servers they are targeting.
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
How is woosh any better? Explain.
#DeleteFacebook
Considering that Win7 only has 2 more years of security patches, I suspect most people like myself are just migrating because it will be mandatory pretty soon and don't want to wait until the last minute.
Combine that with a lot of new systems are incapable of booting Win 7 (Win 7 can't boot from NVMe SSDs, and even with UEFI boot Win 7 needs legacy BIOS/CSM because it uses INT10 VGA BIOS calls... a lot of new systems don't have this in firmware anymore.) And even if it would work MSFT won't allow Win7 to be used on any new systems and don't forget their dubious upgrade tactics.
Both the summary and the original article fail to explain that the "Other OS" with 0.8% actually means Other *Windows* OSes. They fail completely in providing useful context about how the percentages of Windows flavours compare to those of iOS, Android, and Mac. Here are the missing stats that come from the analytics.usa.gov site: iOS 25.2%, Android 18.2%, Macintosh 9%. This also explains how Safari is the 2nd most popular browser with 26%.
So, 1 trillion in American imperial?
I only trust Opera, because I know China will never want to share my information with the USA.
China will do anything for money. Are you new?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I can make more modpoints. Of course, I realize that you can make more Chinese, but I can drain their modpoints as well.
Anyone who believes that Chinese corporations won't turn around and sell your data to anyone who will buy it is a total fucking idiot who should not be permitted to post comments to Youtube, let alone Slashdot.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Windows 10 LGBT is superficially very slick but it goes mental if you refuse to bake it a wedding cake. Also no arrangement of bathrooms is acceptable to it.
And when you're trying to fill in your TPS reports it keeps bothering you with gross details of its sex life. And then complains to your boss that you're a bigot when you tell it to fuck off.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
More like Windows 10 BSDM
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
Windows for business (Pro and Enterprise) is a piece of cr*p and is loaded with garbage. I'm at work and totally want to play Candy Crush. WTF is going through their heads? And they bend over backwards to collect user data. Particularly, they try to get users to create and use a Microsoft account on a new PC or instance of Windows. I have a MSDN subscription and can get/install any version of Windows or Windows Server that I want. I wiped and reloaded my workstation with Windows 10 Enterprise. If you haven't installed Windows 10 lately, you will be digging to find a way to avoid creating a Microsoft account. They act like an overly excited poodle wrapped around your ankle trying to gather as much data as possible including personal identifying data. They work hard to force or trick users into consenting to data collection. I'm sick and tired of fighting to maintain control of my work PC and dev system. I'm convinced they are still collecting data that I haven't knowingly given them permission to access, but I have work to do and I can't sit around devising ways to monitor what they collect. I shouldn't have to police a company that I have paid for a product. Windows 10 is tightly bound to paid MS services and data collection. I have over 30 MacBooks for iOS developers and we don't have this problem with them. They aren't preloaded with Xbox or Candy Crush and data gathering is simple to disable (answer no to a direct question 1 time). After a year with my company and living with a MacBook and 2 PCs on my desk, I bought my own MacBook. The PCs and Windows 10 are a constant pain in the a**. Yes, I'm aware of Linux but prefer MacOS for consistency with work and ability to run Visual Studio, Xcode, and Photoshop. Why is Windows 10 hitting government services more than Windows 7? Simple answer is time. People need and/or want new PCs and they all have Windows 10. It isn't possible for the average user to wipe 10 and load 7 on a new system and that may not even be possible at all on some systems. By the way, I'm on vacation this week and sending this rant from my MacBook using simple old Safari. Microsoft can piss off as far as I'm concerned.
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We have been burned too much with IE.
IE/Edge being integrated with the OS is a BAD IDEA. Because you are exposing your Operating System to the Internet, with a connection to a complex parsing engine and interpreted language. It wasn't about sites spying on you, but the fact using IE to browse the internet could lead to your computer being compromised.
Chrome has its sandbox. Sure it may be sending data to google for adds, but at least I can go to a site and not worry about backdoor apps installed on my computer.
Edge may have fixed this, but we have had such a bad experience with IE and IE 6 being around for much too long (Like Netscape 4) it has became a joke to use compared to Chrome which better supports HTML5 and has good security.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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...government website visits your Windows 10 computer.
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
So, their page says their software is open-source, including the "collector" ( https://github.com/18F/analyti... ). Unfortunately, all that seems to be is some JavaScript to fetch and process Google Analytics data.
I thought the US government would be able to do an adequate job of collecting and processing "meta-data" without giving all of that information to Google ...
Every time I try to use Edge, I find run into something that's broken after about 2 minutes. That might have something to do with it. Sad thing is whatever is broken usually works fine if I try it in IE. Microsoft would be better off if they just turned it into a wrapper around the IE engine. Or just throw in the towel entirely and use Blink like everyone else.