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Windows 10 Continues To Close in On Windows 7 (betanews.com)
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.
Spyware continues to be forced on users ... news at 11.
An increase of 0.87% with a error range of +- 20%. I love statistics.
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.
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.
Being that PC's are being sold at a higher rate for the first time in a while, We can expect to see Windows 10 market share to go up.
As much as we want to Hate on Windows 10... Microsoft Windows Sales have been tied to General PC Sales. The length of Windows 7 in the market is mostly due to the fact that Windows 7 PC's have been the primary computers for people for many years, and now these systems are start to show their age and become out of date. Back before Windows 7 the Average Live Span for a PC was 4-6 years now it is 6-10 years. Thanks mostly in part to Mobile devices that forced OS makers and software designers to focus more on lower end systems. So That 2008 Windows 7 PC, for most people would be finally really showing its age. 4Gigs of Ram is getting tight, and that Duel Core is quite quaint. So people get a new computer and they Get Windows 10 on it.
Previous to Windows 7 That 2002 PC in 2008 would be really showing its age. and that 1998 vs 2002 PC would show age too.
The Slow increase of Windows 10, is just because PC Sales have been slow too.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
This is as expected. Microsoft per their marketing plan will force as many as they can on to Windows 10. Up to this point I have resisted and still run Windows 7 Pro on my Windows workstations. Not sure I will ever go for Windows 10. Or just phase Windows workstations out and stick to my Linux and Mac workstations. I stopped doing Windows development work over 10 years ago anyway. And just keep 1 Windows 7 Pro workstation at my office and one in my home office now.
;)
One thing I do know "I will never use a DaaS workstation for any of my development work or to run my business". Heck, I don't even use any cloud based apps for any real work.
Just my 2 cents
Businesses are finally comfortable with upgrading.
If you look at TFA at Betanews, the image they used is pretty creepy if you think about it...
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
I wish I had bought a bunch of their stock at $ 35.00. They have managed to keep things going nicely.
;)
Just my 2 cents
I just had server 2012 forced on me (again) at work. I wanted to shove hot pokers into my eyes to relieve the pain of the default theme that we get with that terrible excuse for an operating system. Then I changed that and the mouse cursor no longer worked correctly (switching to being the vertical cursor that we usually see in a word processor, all the time). Why on earth is this acceptable? The colors are hideous and the sharp edges make it look like it belongs in Windows 2.0, for display on an EGA monitor. You don't have to remind me so blatantly that I am being forced to use a shitty operating system; please get the hell out of my way and let me do my job instead.
It does accomplish one thing, though. It makes the Fisher-Price color scheme that was default in XP seem modern and reasonable by comparison. Good job there, I guess.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I even still dual boot XP. Microsoft's "support" for 7 is so pathetic that it dosen't matter when it is "officially unsupported".
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.
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.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
And that third only runs Windows 10 because it's a Surface Pro and doesn't support 7.
I have no intention of upgrading the other systems and normally I've almost always upgraded to the next version of Windows within a year or two of release from as far back as Windows 95! (skipping only Vista) That stopped with Windows 8 which I thought would be another skip one like Vista - but with all the spyware/auto-updating and just downright oddness of Windows 10 where I'm a spectator to my own computer -Nah, I'll stick on Windows 7 until I absolutely have to and maybe not even then.
I upgrade all the Windows 10 computers I can get my hands on to Windows 7.
The BS that M$ introduced with generation 7 and above CPUs only supporting 10 is making this more difficult though. That was the most desperate tactic I have seen M$ take in trying to force 10 on everyone, even more so than the 'free" upgrade fiasco a few years back.
I truly despise M$ for the crap they put people through.
Unfortunately Windows 13 will never come. M$'s next move will be Desktop as a Service (DaaS). You'll need to move to MacOS or Linux to avoid that shit-storm.
Change is within error range.
Steam Hardware & Software Survey:
Windows 10 64 bit
Windows 7 64 bit
Windows 8.1 64 bit
Windows 7
all other version of Windows are <1% (8 64-bit, 10 32-bit, 8.1 32-bit, XP)
all versions of Linux combined are <1%
all versions of MacOS X combined is 2.93%
Conclusion: Windows 10 has been a big deal for quite some time, at least in gaming.
This is all unfortunate news for me because long ago (~5 years) I had decided that Win7 is the last version I will use in my home. So convinced of this I bought a 5-pack of builder licenses to cover any future systems I build. It seemed reasonable because for creative work Linux happens to meet my needs. For gaming I had high hopes that Steam OS or Android TV or something would have taken hold. I'm not really a consoles guy, so I may have to adapt to running Spyware-from-Redmond, or limit myself to 10 year old games.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Be a shame if something upgraded it . . .
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
The new 're-install over the top of yourself' patching system is terrible. If it fails it can render a machine unable to boot and despite (presumably... .. .. .?) their best efforts, several settings you've configured WILL be reset to default.
I am a silent PC user, when sound comes out, it's because I want it to. Why do notification audio keep getting turned on?
There's a heap of odd little things which re-enable themselves when these updates occur, worst thing is you had to google to find out how to disable them months ago and not since, so you've forgotten.
What do you think of Autopatcher?
pc sales have been in the shitter for a wile. untill amd interrupted things people who not buying new intel machines with only minor performance changes.
oh and hell yea kde is so rock solid now. now to get all the nerds to try it again after years of it not being so good.
If Windows 10 were a Superior Product to Windows 7.
All I've found is a lack of compatibility with older non-Microsoft software. A horrid interface designed more for grandma's tablet than a real working PC. And a new "Edgey" browser that comes straight out of 1996. Seriously, we found an old video file that NOTHING would play was compatible with MS Edge...then we found it wasn't an H.264 codec, but an H.262 codec. Modern browsers wouldn't play it. Of course, Edge is NOT compatible with more modern codecs....so it's kinda a wash.
Who in their right mind would ever want to install software that intrusive and obnoxious?!
No one. Yet most are forced to.
Win10 prevents you from accessing significant, important aspects of YOUR PC; and, mines data from you!
Win7 is still considered a far more desirable platform, irregardless of what is actually installed.
Your are definitely better off with Linux.
Yet, MS has an eye on that, too!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.