Microsoft's aggressive tactics pay off as Windows 10 overtakes Windows 8.1

[steven36]

A month ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 was on over 200 million devices. It also claimed that Windows 10 adoption was accelerating, which seemed to be in clear contradiction of NetMarketShare’s monthly usage figures. The pattern there showed adoption of the new OS to be slowing month after month.

 

 

 

That wasn’t the case in January however, as the latest usage figures from NetMarketShare show Windows 10 starting the new year at a fair pace and finally doing something it’s been threatening to do for the past couple of months -- overtaking Windows 8.1.

 

The new operating system -- fueled by Microsoft’s increasingly aggressive tactics -- went from 9.96 percent in December to 11.85 percent last month, a climb of 1.89 percentage points.

Windows 8.1 pretty much stood still in the month, going from 10.30 percent to 10.40 percent, a slight 0.10 percentage point increase.

 

Windows 8 also didn’t move much, dropping 0.08 percent points. It now sits on 2.68 percent.

 

Combined, Windows 8.x is on 13.08 percent, which means it’s still ahead of Windows 10, for now.

 

Windows 7 was the big loser in January, falling from 55.68 percent to 52.47 percent, a decrease of 3.21 percentage points. I expect it will rally in coming months.

 

Windows XP users still stubbornly refuse to go anywhere, and the ancient OS went from 10.93 percent in December to 11.42 percent in January, a climb of 0.49 percentage points.

Can Windows 10 keep up the momentum in February? Place your bets and we’ll find out next month.

 

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[Karlston]

Let's see now... Windows 7 and 8.1 have combined 62.87% market share and Windows 10 a lowly 11.85%.

 

Or put another way, for every 1 Windows 10 user there are over 5 Windows 7 and 8.1 users who have said NO to Microsoft.

 

Or put yet another way, Windows 10 may have "200 million devices installed", but its main market of Windows 7 and 8.1 users have ~ 1.06 billion (1,060 million) devices installed.

 

Windows 10 looks pretty much like a big fail to me. No wonder Microsoft never mention Windows 10 market share, instead relying on the deceptive "X million devices installed".

 

For me the 3 BIG reasons to not upgrade are mainly Microsoft highly unethical bullying to upgrade, the failed mystery-cumulative-forced-system-borking upgrade methodology, and the immaturity of Windows 10 itself.

 

Windows ROT10 perhaps?

[steven36]

19 minutes ago, Karlston said:

Let's see now... Windows 7 and 8.1 have combined 62.87% market share and Windows 10 a lowly 11.85%.

 

Or put another way, for every 1 Windows 10 user there are over 5 Windows 7 and 8.1 users who have said NO to Microsoft.

 

Or put yet another way, Windows 10 may have "200 million devices installed", but its main market of Windows 7 and 8.1 users have ~ 1.06 billion (1,060 million) devices installed.

 

Windows 10 looks pretty much like a big fail to me. No wonder Microsoft never mention Windows 10 market share, instead relying on the deceptive "X million devices installed".

 

For me the 3 BIG reasons to not upgrade are mainly Microsoft highly unethical bullying to upgrade, the failed mystery-cumulative-forced-system-borking upgrade methodology, and the immaturity of Windows 10 itself.

 

Windows ROT10 perhaps?

They got a long ways to beat it and a rally for windows 7 would mean alot of of people will be downgrading  from windows 10 .

 

If you look at it since March 2015 before win 10  came out in March windows 7 had  58.08%  now they have  52. 47% that's not a whole lot of loss over the long run.

 

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qpcustomb=0&qprid=11

 

[wacm1979]

We we shall see in the long term where things go but I have a feeling Windows 7 will become the new OS that sticks with legacy users as it is very mature. Only advantage 8.x and 10 have is that they can leverage newer hardware with ease.

[steven36]

Windows 8.1 dont have that though because  only the new  Intel  skylake processors will support windows 10 come July  2017

 

Thing is though can Microsoft  keep pulling tricks out of its hat   to make people  want to use  Windows 10 seems there desperate  and after awhile they will run out of tricks. Only thing has got them 10.40 % is the fact its free  if were more like windows 7 it be halfway there by now if it were free at the rate they going it will be years like 2019  before  it could beat it

[heyyahblah]

@Karlston hahaha if you posted that in tenforums all the fan boii's would have their panties in a knot, lmao. There is some old koot in that forum that thinks W10 is god's gift to man. Claims that Edge browser is no 1 (even puts it in his sig) and Cortana the best. If you find this moron you will have a fucking laugh I am telling you.

 

Old fart is delusional and dumb as piss. Even goes as far to say that W7 sucks in some of his threads. Old people, has dementia for sure. Edge and Cortana #1 and Win 10 #1. Especially the changes they want to make in W10.1 Redstone to get rid of the Ribbon bar and make it like the settings menu. What a joke, stupid retards. Seriously. I loved your post. You should tear up those fan boys.

 

[steven36]

3 minutes ago, heyyahblah said:

if you posted that in tenforums

You cant pay no mind to those people  the same people  that owns those forums have a Vista ,7.8 forums as well  and 2 out 3 of them  never done shit .

[Karlston]

2 hours ago, heyyahblah said:

Old people, has dementia for sure. Edge and Cortana #1 and Win 10 #1.

 

Careful with the sweeping generalisations about "old" people, my next birthday starts with a "6" and ends with a "0"! Some of us still have working grey matter.

 

2 hours ago, heyyahblah said:

Seriously. I loved your post. You should tear up those fan boys.

 

Thanks muchly Hopefully though, I make a little more sense. I never claim that what I post is right, but I always try and back it up with facts. And I detest the fanboi "Everyone should use what I use! Why? Because *I* use it." statements because they're just such blatant bullsh*t.

 

3 hours ago, wacm1979 said:

Only advantage 8.x and 10 have is that they can leverage newer hardware with ease.

 

Yep! That's why IF I move from Windows 7, it'll be to Windows 8.1, not Windows rot10.