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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. 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. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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.