Surpassing Windows 7's Market Share For the First Time, Windows 10 Now the Most Popular Desktop OS From Microsoft (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday February 1, 2018 @04:08AM from the where-we-are dept.

Two and a half years after the company made it available to the general public, Windows 10 is now the most popular operating system from Microsoft, according to analytics firm StatCounter. From a report: Every month, StatCounter reports on the state of the desktop operating system market. Since October last year, the analyst company's figures have shown the gap between Windows 10 and Windows 7 narrowing. It looked as if the newer OS would overtake the older one in November, but that didn't happen, and it didn't happen in December either. However, in January, according to StatCounter, Windows 10 finally claimed the top spot. The latest figures show Windows 10 on 42.78 percent, up from 41.69 percent in December 2017. That's an increase of 1.09 percentage points.

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Re:microsoft should just give up by sinij · 2018-02-01 04:45 · Score: 1, Redundant

This would be true circa 1995, modern linux is about as user friendly as you could imagine.
I don't have to imagine. Few years back, after getting tired of cleaning out crap from my mother's computer I tried to move her to Ubuntu. She just couldn't work with it, despite me spending couple hours training her how to do simple tasks like browsing, watching DVDs, joining wireless network. When Win10 came out she with minimal pains migrated to it (touchscreen helped).

There is a reason why the year of Linux desktop never arrives. This reason is that no matter what distro you use, it always been by techies for techies. Simple users need not apply.