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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. Re:Latest and greatest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Windows 10 may be the latest, but Windows 7 was the greatest.

  2. Windows 10 does wonders! by zilym · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My Dad was happily using Windows 8, was forcefully upgraded to Windows 10 by accident. Hated Windows 10, downgraded back to Windows 8, then kept getting warning messages popping up from time to time about some DLL that got lost in all the shuffle. Didn't seem to do anything useful (app store DLL?) but annoying. Fed up with all that, he finally bite the bullet and switched to Ubuntu 18.04 this fall. Thanks Microsoft!

  3. Re:Latest and greatest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    At the time, Windows 2000 was a bit bloated for the wimpy hardware we had available back then. Windows 7 was snappy and still looks and runs great even today. Alas, Microsoft doesn't support it anymore, so you can't safely hook up to the Internet... All the more reason to ditch Windows entirely and just use Linux.

  4. Re:Latest and greatest? by Cmdln+Daco · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Windows 2000 was the first really robust OS from Microsoft that had 'enough in it' to be a good desktop system, and was several magnitudes of scale better than Windows 98. Before it, NT 3.51 was a good 'UNIX like' OS, but they screwed that up with NT 4. Then after Windows 2000, they stuck in thick layers of cruft again with XP. It took until Windows 7 to recover. Windows 10 is just an unmitigated disaster. I recently tried to open up my Windows 10 convertible laptop in 'tablet' mode, and had to kind of force it into a shutdown because it wouldn't respond to ANYTHING I could do on the touchscreen.

  5. Re:Many businesses have no choice by Luckyo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Enterprises get the enterprise version, which removes almost all of the "hot, new, amazing" technology and cedes control of the OS to the admin to make for an actually reliable OS.

    Other users are stuck with home and pro versions which are the worst MS operating system since... I have problems finishing this sentence, as I had better luck even with ME.

  6. Wow! That was SO FAST! by Chas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Only too 3.5 years and fucking with hardware and software to artificially obsolete Win7!

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    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!
  7. Re:Many businesses have no choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LTSB is not recommended. No Linux support, slow as fuck Windows Update

    It's called Cygwin or a virtual machine.

    No Windows Store which is a problem for Office 2019 as Sway and OneNote have moved to the Store only

    Nobody cares.

    and many other countless updates since 2015.

    Again nobody cares, not even a little.