Windows 10 adoption is strong among home users, lags behind in the enterprise

[Batu69]

 

Windows 10 seems to be building a core user base very nicely, just as Microsoft said when it revealed last week that it now runs on 200 million devices.

However, a study in the US suggests that most of those devices are in homes, not offices.

The study is based on US government data expressed as each Windows version’s percentage share of the total of Windows traffic reaching federal web sites.

 

What the study revealed was that Monday to Friday traffic was dominated by Windows 7 machines, circa 70 percent of all traffic visiting US federal sites, with the remaining 30 percent consisting of Windows XP, Windows 8 and Windows 10. However what is of interest is at weekends the proportions changed with Windows 7 traffic dropping considerably whilst windows XP, Windows 8 and Windows 10 rose sharply. This trend was most noticeable during the festive holidays when most businesses were closed.

 

Microsoft won’t be too upset by these revelations, as it knows that businesses are expected to take longer to migrate to a new operating system than consumers, what with all the complications that accompany a large-scale move. After all it took years to persuade businesses to upgrade from the flagship product Windows XP -- indeed most had to be forced to by Microsoft stopping support for its beloved product.

 

Microsoft is, however, doing its best to move things along by adopting tactics such as stopping pre-loaded versions of Windows 7 and discontinuing support for Internet Explorer.

 

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[WALLONN7]

Make "imposition" and "adoption" equivalent things is a tremendous demonstration of linguistic ignorance.

F- to Betanews A.G., regardless of whether it was voluntary or not his choice of words!!!

[Karlston]

200 million (at most) out of 1.2 billion (1,200 million) Windows 7 and 8.1 users at end of July 2015 is hardly impressive.

 

But it explains Microsoft's diabolically desperate unethical and immoral upgrade methodology. One in 6 Windows 7 and 8.1 users want it and the remaining 5 out of 6 don't.

 

Install the more popular GWX Control Panel and stick your middle finger up at the Microsoft thugs.

[WALLONN7]

Nobody wants it at all...

Those who tested it, as I did, went back to the previous operating system or anything else.

The fact is that Microsoft is trying to do what Google has done with Chrome: close our eyes and when we opened them, something new took over!!!

[Bausch]

Many nontechnical savvy users don't know how to avoid the GWX malware, they simply have no choice, at least non that they are aware of. All they see is a window that lets them do nothing else, and keeps popping up to nag them several times a day until they give up and "upgrade".

[DKT27]

11 hours ago, WALLONN7 said:

Make "imposition" and "adoption" equivalent things is a tremendous demonstration of linguistic ignorance.

F- to Betanews A.G., regardless of whether it was voluntary or not his choice of words!!!

 

I do not see a problem with Betanews though, their work is to report news, in this case, of a report from an agency.

 

What they could however do, is to mention the reason behind it. However, in news reporting people tend be irritated if one continues to bash things which are widely known now.

[steven36]

2 hours ago, DKT27 said:

 

I do not see a problem with Betanews though, their work is to report news, in this case, of a report from an agency.

 

What they could however do, is to mention the reason behind it. However, in news reporting people tend be irritated if one continues to bash things which are widely known now.

Its more like they copied the  news form somewhere  else with only part the  story and no links to all sources here is the original  article

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/11/windows_10_makes_big_gains_at_home_lags_at_work/

 

I read this News story days ago

 

But  Windows 10  don't have 200 m pc  users  it has 200 m  users combined phone , xbox and pcs

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/05/microsoft_200_million_windows_10_devices/

 

For pcs Netmarketshare gives it 9.96%

 

The bar grapigh  at statcounter  says it only has 3.1%