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Windows 10 Passes Windows 7 in Market Share (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the where-we-are-at dept.

An anonymous reader writes: More than three years after its release, Windows 10 has passed Windows 7 in market share. That means more desktop computers are now running Microsoft's latest and greatest operating system than any other OS, according to Net Applications. The milestone is a nice way for Microsoft to end 2018, even though the company surely was hoping it wouldn't take this long for Windows 10 to overtake Windows 7.

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  1. Latest and greatest? by hashish · · Score: 3, Informative

    Was this article written by MS?

    1. Re:Latest and greatest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Windows 8.1 + Classic Shell is the best version of Windows. That isn't saying much since everything Microsoft has ever made is crap.

  2. Many businesses have no choice by StuartHankins · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows 10 has a bunch of serious issues, that's not news, and those who can avoid it are lucky. Guess what? My machine is wanting to install the Windows feature update again, and I'm staving it off because the last time I tried it, after 2 hours of WTF-is-it-doing and then trying to roll back, it left things in such a mess after the "successful" rollback that I restored the entire VM from backup.

    This is one reason why I no longer store documents within the VM, and do most of my work remoted onto Windows servers which seem to have fewer issues. Between Office 365 "updates" and forced Windows "updates" my machine has never been so "updated" yet suffering from so many issues before... and I go back to Windows 3.0

    I would create another VM from scratch, but Windows 10 is the issue here. What a hot mess!

    1. Re:Many businesses have no choice by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 3, Informative

      I bought a retail box version of Windows 10 to put on my desktop because I was running a sketchy copy of Windows 7 that kept deactivating. After a few months running the Windows 10, I went on eBay and bought a legitimate retail box copy of Windows 7 to replace it.

      At least now I have a legitimate copy of Windows 7 to run in perpetuity. I have several machines with legit OEM copies of Windows 7 as well.

      If you did have a legit Windows 7 machine and you let them do the 'free upgrade' on it, your old license is expired. That was part of the agreement to get the 'free' Windows 10.

    2. Re:Many businesses have no choice by Luckyo · · Score: 4, Informative

      Of which "new hardware support" was achieved by literally forcing OEMs and hardware designers into not releasing win7 drivers. They even strong armed intel itself into not releasing full support for win7 on its most modern CPUs.

  3. Untrue, not same (I used both extensively)... apk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    OS/2 was different & didn't have a 'registry' (well, kind of but not same in ".ini" files BUT NOT TEXT like Windows ones, these were BINARY format iirc (Faster reads that way, & smart but not simple to work with like text)) & configured via config.sys (like DOS) & though NT had a DOS 'subsystem', OS/2 was the one that had a "better DOS than DOS" (both could run multiple instances but iirc, NT has to have a reg setting for SEPARATING Win16 instances into diff. memspace - OS/2 did that off the bat for Win16 subsystem BUILT-INTO it (literally Windows 3.1)). The Workplace Shell OS/2 desktop was a TRUE OOP type desktop - IF I had to describe Win9x or NT? I'd call theirs an "Object Request Broker" @ most/best.

    REXX was a scripting language I felt was a LOT MORE POWERFUL than NT had in DOS batchfiles too.

    HPFS was the 'default filesystem' (or FAT) on OS/2 - NTFS was on NT (the latter is better though).

    I used OS/2 2.0 - 2.1 & Warp 3 (still have the boxes for them all here, staring @ them now) as last ones I used though - things changed since then? Some, in "internetability" (for lack of a better expression)

    * I don't mean to "bust your balls" - BUT they were QUITE different (& a lot of what you stated is "right on" though).

    (It's been literally 24++ yrs. since I used it last but I should be FAIRLY ACCURATE above (if not, anyone can feel free to correct me/re-enlighten me/refresh me)).

    I liked OS/2 a LOT - never got to develop on it though (I was mainly only a rookie programmer back then & didn't have the 'chops' to use Watcom C++ or Borland C++ for OS/2 then (I was still learning & doing character mode/tty term/DOS programs ONLY then, GUI came a year later or so circa 1992-1994 iirc for me (@ least to the point I could say I was 'fairly proficient' @ it)).

    APK

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