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Windows 10 Continues To Close in On Windows 7 (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the aggressive-expansion dept.

An anonymous reader writes: NetMarketShare reports on the state of the desktop operating system market on the first day of each month. [...] In July, [the market share of] Windows 10 went from 35.71 percent to 36.58 percent, an increase of 0.87 percentage points. That's down from the 0.97 percentage points it grew in June, but shows that the OS is still packing on share at a steady rate. In July, Windows 7 lost 0.51 percentage points and now sits on 41.23 percent, just 4.65 percentage points ahead of the newer OS.

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  1. Spyware... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Spyware continues to be forced on users ... news at 11.

    1. Re: Spyware... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I have yet to see a convincing account of what information Windows 10 actually sends to MS. Microsoft certainly hasn't been transparent about it?

      If it's innocuous, why not give users the option to turn it off?

    2. Re:Spyware... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You can tell Fake News from real news.

      How can you tell real telemetry vs spyware? You cannot. Therefore assume the worst.

    3. Re:Spyware... by Kjella · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Mine hasn't. You see, in Windows 7, you can choose which updates you install...

      Only if you've stopped installing updates entirely or been exceptionally diligent. If you've installed any of the rollup patches available through Windows Update since October 2016 you got it all. Even the one that says security is actually security for this month plus both security and non-security patches from previous months if you read the fine print, you're just one month behind on the spyware. The only way to get security-only patches on a home version version of Windows is to download them from WSUS via a third-party tool and install them manually, one per month. Note that these are not cumulative so if you need to reinstall you need all of them.

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  2. ORLY? by Artem+S.+Tashkinov · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And Windows 10 continues to be the only Windows OS being offered by OEMs and Microsoft itself. With older computers dying or being utilized, you have to wonder which OS is going to become more widespread. Except you don't.

    Oh, and Windows 7 will cease to be supported in 2020 while Windows 8 expiry date is set to 2023.

    1. Re:ORLY? by GerryGilmore · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And that is just another reason that I am *SO* glad that I switched to Linux years ago.
      Anyone whining about Windows today has only themselves to blame.

  3. Well... by erp_consultant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not like people are "adopting" anything. If you buy a new PC it's going to come pre-installed with Windows 10, unless it's a MAC. A better indicator would be how many people are buying a Windows 10 disc and voluntarily replacing their current OS with it. I suspect that number is very very low.

  4. Re:Businesses are finally converting by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mugging victims are finally comfortable with handing over their jewelry... in this case, the "gun" is the 2020 support expiry data on Windows 7.

  5. Re:Upgrades. by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As much as we want to Hate on Windows 10... Microsoft Windows Sales have been tied to General PC Sales.

    Maybe PC sales were lower in part because of waiting for and then disappointment with Windows 10. From the correlation alone, we can't tell.

    Your fundamental point is valid, but it's pretty embarrassing for Microsoft that its shiny new flagship product still hasn't overtaken its tried-and-tested legacy product after all this time, even though they literally gave it away to any home user who wanted to upgrade (and apparently a few who didn't...) and stopped offering the alternatives so anyone buying those new computers can't choose the older version even if they'd prefer it.

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  6. Says it all by CptLoRes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft has been pushing Windows 10 hard, very hard indeed as the only option for 3 years now. And even with users having no choice, it just now crossed 36 percent adoption. Meanwhile the 9 years old and deprecated (by MS) Windows 7 still maintains a healthy 42 percent. Pretty much says everything there is to say about Windows 10.

  7. Exact opposite interpretation by Tough+Love · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My interpretation is: Windows 10 is taking an incredibly long time to ramp up in spite of being rammed down everybody's throats as hard as Microsoft can do it by means fair or foul. I conclude that Windows 10 must really suck, that users don't want it, and that they will accept it only by force. I look forward to a new wave of refugees arriving on the Linux beach.

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  8. Re:Upgrades. by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except for the few neck beards that hang around here, most people love Windows 10.

    Of course they do. That's why there are still more Windows 7 users even several years after 10 launched.

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