Windows 10 Three Weeks On: Market Share Growth Stops, Bugs, Flaws, And Privacy Concerns

[steven36]

Windows 10 took the computer industry by storm on July 31 with millions of people taking advantage of the operating system’s free upgrade offer from Microsoft’s previous Windows versions — Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

Since then, Windows 10 has been receiving a confusing mix of praise and criticism, with some praising it for its new features and design, and others complaining about privacy issues, software bugs, and hardware incompatibility.

While Microsoft has been trying hard to fix the Windows 10 flaws that have been surfacing since its beta version was released months earlier, many Windows users are still hesitant to upgrade right away and have decided to wait a few months till more bugs and flaws are resolved.

If, like me, you roll back from Windows 10 Build 10525 to RTM… Edge gets a bit of a crazy long name pic.twitter.com/1OpyOyPyzk
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) August 21, 2015

The worst news for Windows 10 came earlier this week, with Computer World reporting that the new operating system’s usage share has slowly dropped over the past week.
That’s right. Windows 10, which caught tech headlines just a few weeks ago, has seen its usage share decline from almost 6.6 percent on Sunday to 5.7 percent on Tuesday. Yet Computer World’s Gregg Keizer described the decline as “normal.”

“Consumer-oriented operating systems, as are the vast bulk of those that have been upgraded to Windows 10, typically peak on weekends, then fall when people return to work where they sit in front of an older OS on their office devices.”

The Windows 10 compatibility issues, bugs, privacy concerns, and rumors may have led many Windows users who hurriedly upgraded to Windows 10 to decide to switch back to their earlier Windows versions that they’ve been using for months and years.

Infoworld has even published “10 reasons you shouldn’t upgrade to Windows 10,” listing Windows 10’s forced updates, its incompatibility with some widely used apps, and the absence of the famous Windows Media Center as major reasons why some would prefer not to upgrade to Windows 10 so soon.

Euronews also listed the pros, cons, successes, and failures of Windows 10.

What has Windows 10 been good at according to Euronews?

• Getting millions to download it
• Bringing back the start menu (with a slightly new look, but definitely better that the Windows 8 start screen)
• Its “geek approval”
• And the fact that some Apple users are starting to love it

What has Windows 10 failed at?

• The fact that it can remove any software or hardware it deems to be illegal
• The privacy issues and concerns
• The fact that your internet connection (unless you opt out) gets shared with others to speed up their Windows 10 download and installation
• Problematic nightmarish updates that turn your computer into a never-ending restarting machine
• The lack of success in getting Edge (its new browser, if you haven’t heard of it) to gain any level of popularity
• And numerous compatibility issues

"Google Chrome crashes out of latest Windows 10 preview." Nope. "Latest Windows 10 preview cripples 64-bit Chrome." Yep.
— Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) August 21, 2015

Of course, many still hope to upgrade to Windows 10 and are just waiting – patiently – for the bugs, flaws, and setbacks of Windows 10 to be all patched up and resolved before taking that step.

Have you upgraded to Windows 10 yet? How has your experience been and have you decided to downgrade back from Windows 10 to an older version?

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[Chatman]

When so many users are thinking to downgrade back from Windows 10, well, this is not a success for Microsoft.

[OrbingStorm]

After much investigation I have found this

Windows 10 has taken a dramatic leap into the future.Alot of us werent prepared for it.

Its trying to achieve a seemless experience for all but at the same time its trying to get more money with advertising so thats why it wants all your data.

I personally think advertising will go too far and ppl will become numb to it. The opposite of what advertisers want.

What I dont like is the user has control taken away ..espesially in updates that you know nothing about.Lets face it anything could be downloaded to your pc.

But I see that there is no stopping this.Its the way of the future for all humans that want artificial intelligence to think for them.

I love computing and technology and I hope i can adapt to what the future offers.

I do hate advertising though and will always stand my ground when i insist I dont want it.All the big players make money from advertisments.

Is it only me that sees what a horrible advertising controlled world looks like or do u think im paranoid?

[ASIO]

8.1 is more successful than 10

[coromonadalix]

Peoples are awakening :)

[steven36]

After much investigation I have found this

Windows 10 has taken a dramatic leap into the future.Alot of us werent prepared for it.

Maybe a leap in the past .

1. The Start menu was first introduced in Windows 95 They idea to not to have one in windows 8 predates windows 95 . they took away a very old idea and replaced it with an older one and then gave you the old idea back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_menu

2. Meet Cortana the new BonziBuddy . This kind of spyware existed since 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

3. App Store's been around since 2011 they stole the windows apps idea from Mac apps store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store

When you take all these old ideas away you have windows 7 . What it boils down too, they added a bunch of old ideas and try too sell them too you as new ones . PCS has not changed much since Vista . Histroy just keeps repeating itself over and over . :P