Windows 10 Running on 148 Million PCs, Microsoft Now at 15 Percent of Its 1 Billion Goal

[Batu69]

Adoption of Microsoft’s new OS is on the rise

Third-party data provided by market analyst firms shows that adoption of Windows 10 has slowed down a little in the last few months, but despite all of these, the new operating system is already running on 148 million PCs, according to the latest estimates.

And as CW notes, this means that Microsoft has already reached 15 percent of its 1 billion devices running Windows 10 goal, which the company says should be completed by 2017.

Figures for the month of November and collected by Net Applications show that Windows 10 was running on 9 percent of the world’s computers, up 1.06 percent from the month before. Adoption of the new operating system continues to increase these days, but at a slow pace, after booming from 0.39 percent in July to 5.21 percent in August.

Windows 10 is available free of charge to computers running Windows 7 and 8.1, but in the last few months, this offer doesn’t seem to be reason enough for some users to upgrade, who prefer to stick to their existing operating systems rather than to install Windows 10.

Windows 7 performance

What’s also surprising is that, despite the arrival of Windows 10, market performance of the good old Windows 7 doesn’t seem to be impacted in any way.

After previously declining from 56.53 percent in September to 55.71 percent in October, Windows 7 has managed to increase to 56.11 percent last month, which is living proof that, even though Windows 10 is up for grabs, its predecessors are still appealing to many users out there.

Windows 8.1 is the second in the charts with 11.15 percent, but its market share is expected to decrease in the coming months, as more people move to Windows 10. The case seems to be different with Windows 7, though, which continues to be installed on more than 1 in 2 PCs across the world.

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[vibranium]

Funny. Just hours ago a friend called me to ask "Just how do I exterminate that nag screen for upgrading to Windows 10???" :eek:

[Roy W]

Good for you Microsoft now all you have to do is get the software working like Windows 7 did.

Get all the problems sorted out ASAP.

[straycat19]

Windows 10 Running on 148 Million PCs

Only in their dreams!

[Karlston]

Considering Windows OS's only, Windows 10 has 12.79% market share and the prime market for Windows 10, namely Windows 7 and 8.1 users, total 79.39%.

Windows 8.1 market share even increased slightly, and Windows 7 and 8.1 users are still stubbornly (and IMO rightly) refusing to upgrade.

I confess, I'd like to move from Windows 7 to WIndows 10, but much of Microsoft's Windows 10 strategy make that about as desirable as losing an arm.

I'll move if Microsoft...

1. Returns the update process to be like Windows 7/8/8.1 - granular (individual) updates with details and allow user choice of which ones to update and which to not.

2. Provides a better way to disable telemetry than the current dog's breakfast of settings here, there, and everywhere. A single kill switch would be nice.

In short, when Microsoft starts treating users as adults capable of choice, instead of children who need to have things forced on them "for their own good".

Until then it'll be a cold day in hell... :)

Source... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/02/windows_10_market_share_growth_rate_flattens/

[steven36]

Windows 8.1 market share even increased slightly, and Windows 7 and 8.1 users are still stubbornly (and IMO rightly) refusing to upgrade.

I bought a pc new with windows 8.1 and made sure i never installed Spy are get windows 10 updates.

1. Returns the update process to be like Windows 7/8/8.1 - granular (individual) updates with details and allow user choice of which ones to update and which to not.

I turned auto updates off along time ago in win 8.1 I had not been on windows in like 3 weeks so yesterday i had like 8 optional updates 1 out of 8 was something i didn't want i just hid it and updated the rest . Very easy to maintain. As far as them saying there going to put it in critical updates in 2016, people to seem forget they already done this once tell people complained about it and never i installed it.

2. Provides a better way to disable telemetry than the current dog's breakfast of settings here, there, and everywhere. A single kill switch would be nice.

All windows has some telemetry trough error reporting and rundll32. its just not really bad like it would be if you installed windows 10 or spy updates you need to block with a firewall to get rid of it all . :)

In fact Microsoft got its name from a company called Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems's were Bill Gates help wrote the software for the 1st pc . The Altair 8800 microcomputer. Telemetry has always been in windows people are just now waking up because windows 10 has settings to adjust it , were they can see it. But Telemetry is in all kinds of things not just windows .

You could turn off CEIP in windows 7 and to try stop to them spying and even windows xp had xp antspy to turn off spying in it its nothing new .

https://pubs.vmware.com/view-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.view.administration.doc%2FGUID-BE82165B-13BC-4FD9-A9CF-FBEF6343D98A.html

But still they collect some Telemetry in windows 7 anyways . The Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) started out in vista as a volunteer program in 2008 and still they had Telemetry before they had CEIP .

Not only you need to turn off CEIP you have to turn off error reporting too are just block it.

you can turn off CEIP just by checking no to every thing when you install it . Mine was already off.