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.

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Plot twist

[Anonymous Coward]

The calls to the sites was windows 10 reporting home.

Linux?

[Templer421]

Sir not appearing in this film.

But how many visits are intentional?

[ad454]

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?

Re:But how many visits are intentional?

[Anonymous Coward]

"due to back doors placed in Windows 10"
Do you have any evidence these backdoors exist? Surely you must have some evidence to back up your statement. People have been looking for these mythical back doors in every version of Windows since 3.0 but have never found any evidence of intentional backdoors secreted away in an MS OS. And if these backdoors do exist why are hackers wasting time on creating exploit tools when they could just use the pre-existing back doors?

Strong adoption of mandatory matter

[edis]

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.

Microsoft-biased statistics?

[DontBeAMoran]

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?

Re:Microsoft-biased statistics?

[DontBeAMoran]

"edit", sort of (another feature that Slashdot lacks)

The numbers are all there on the website, it's just BeauHD writing trolling summaries once again.

p.s.: my comment was written in accordance with the Slashdot tradition: post angry comment first, read article later.

Re:Microsoft-biased statistics?

[DontBeAMoran]

You must be running a relic of a version, Safari hasn't been available for Windows for over half a decade.

Re:Microsoft-biased statistics?

[arth1]

Since the OS numbers only total up to 45.15%, where did the other 54.85% come from?

OS/2 Warp, most likely. I hear that the government still has tens of thousands of those. I'm sure you can get an NCSA Mosaic browser for them.

Re:Microsoft-biased statistics?

[suss]

iOS 25%
Android 18%
MacIntosh 9%
ChromeOS 1%
Other 1%

Source: the link in the story that goes to https://analytics.usa.gov/

Re:Why aren't people using Edge?

[DontBeAMoran]

I only trust Opera, because I know China will never want to share my information with the USA.

Shocking news!

[guacamole]

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.

Windows 10 / 2016 not trustworthy

[Jimmyandben]

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.

So... let's look at this...

[QuietLagoon]

... An operating system (Windows 10) that was given away as a free upgrade to older versions finally has more hits than those older versions. An operating system which had such a poor uptake when it was given away for free and subsequently Microsoft had to try to trick users into upgrading to it, finally has more hits than those older versions. Yeah, that is something that Microsoft should crow about on /. .

.

Geesh.

Missing Stats: iOS 25%, Android 18%, MacOS 9%

[pkiff]

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%.

Re:Apples and Oranges

[jawtheshark]

More like Windows 10 BSDM