Everybody on Windows 10: Only 8% of Users Don’t Want to Upgrade by July 29

[Batu69]

83 percent of poll respondents are already on Windows 10

   Most users are already on Windows 10, the poll reveals

 

Microsoft will end the free upgrade to Windows 10 promo for Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs on July 29, so users have less than 50 days to benefit from this offer, but it turns out that the majority of computers are already running the new operating system.

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In a poll I conducted on my Google+ account and that involved more than 1,000 respondents, I asked Windows users whether they planned to upgrade to Windows 10 by the aforementioned deadline. It’s worth mentioning that the majority of the voters are already Windows users and are very unlikely to be beginners, so it does make sense for them to be interested in the most recent software versions.

And the results pretty much speak for themselves. No less than 83 percent of them said they were already on Windows 10 while only 3 percent revealed they were running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Linux.

Dual-booting Windows 10 and Linux

Just 8 percent of the respondents claimed they had no interest in moving to Windows 10 by the July 29 deadline while 6 percent indicated that the upgrade was projected to start on their PCs in the coming weeks by the end of July.

Another interesting finding is that many of the users who participated in this poll are actually dual-booting Windows and a Linux distribution, be it Ubuntu or Linux Mint. The two platforms seem to get along very well, and users consider that each of them performs better where the other one disappoints.

While it’s important to note that these figures aren’t entirely accurate when it comes to the percentage of users refusing the free upgrade to Windows 10, they are actually an indication that the majority of users have already moved to the new operating system. This means that Microsoft’s upgrade efforts have kind of paid off, despite the fact that the software giant has often been criticized for becoming too pushy every once in a while.

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[vissha]

The main reason behind those mostly voted for Windows 10:

• They still hoping that MS will one day change back to normal.
• They don't want to lose the offer.
• They want to show-off that they use latest version.
• They don't know anything about Microsoft's spying and slaving attitude.
• They have benefited from Microsoft's illegal contracts/bribing.
• They are developers and they don't want their application to be dead/in trouble if Windows 10 dies.
• .... and many more.

This poll results are not acceptable in reality since people who are dual booting means they don't like Microsoft's attitude with Windows and they're learning/moving towards Linux to switch to Linux anytime in future if Microsoft's aggressive & spying attitude continues.

[dMog]

or could it just be they like it...and the haters are grasping at straws to convince themselves they are right and the windows 10 users are wrong

[Ryrynz]

18 minutes ago, dMog said:

or could it just be they like it...and the haters are grasping at straws to convince themselves they are right and the windows 10 users are wrong

 

This.

[Sylence]

43 minutes ago, vissha said:

The main reason behind those mostly voted for Windows 10:

• They still hoping that MS will one day change back to normal.
• They don't want to lose the offer.
• They want to show-off that they use latest version.
• They don't know anything about Microsoft's spying and slaving attitude.
• They have benefited from Microsoft's illegal contracts/bribing.
• They are developers and they don't want their application to be dead/in trouble if Windows 10 dies.
• .... and many more.

This poll results are not acceptable in reality since people who are dual booting means they don't like Microsoft's attitude with Windows and they're learning/moving towards Linux to switch to Linux anytime in future if Microsoft's aggressive & spying attitude continues.

 

So now you're saying that 83% of people are idiots and 11% (voted no or switched to linux) are wise? this is no way acceptable. btw i can throw words like spying around Linux too, but without proof it's useless  

[SPECTRUM]

1 hour ago, dMog said:

or could it just be they like it...and the haters are grasping at straws to convince themselves they are right and the windows 10 users are wrong

 

+1 totally agree with you on this.

[steven36]

3 hours ago, dMog said:

or could it just be they like it...and the haters are grasping at straws to convince themselves they are right and the windows 10 users are wrong

 

So let me get this right so some Softpedia Windows 10 fanboy  Bogdan Popa  who writes the PC centric news stories,  almost it's science fiction anyways , done a poll were people read the  PC centric news that are mostly windows PC geeks and beta testers ..Normal people don't read this stuff lol ..They could care less about the next beta build of windows  or the dick size contest Microsoft is having with itself  .If i was to do  a poll on jn  the Linux sub reddit or on a Linux Forum everyone would vote they used Linux too ...A 1000 people out of 1.5 billion  windows users what kind of poll is this?  Sounds like the fanboys are grasping for straws  .  I don't see no poll done by no haters  yet ? They got marketshare stats and even Microsoft don't even claim  what this fanboy  clams. and they even cheat and don't count roll backs and they count every device not just pcs .  Every Windows 10 horror story i read its all over local news stations  always ends with a roll back these are normal people .

 

Only  a 1000 people in this poll  but the Have the EFF investigate Microsoft for malicious practices regarding Windows 10 petition have over 5000 supporters ..It shows you could make up something about anything and people will vote that way. If you make up a poll about how many people who use windows 10.. only mostly Windows 10 users is going to bother to vote . Votes cant count  because its to easy rigged  only factual stats do

 

https://www.change.org/p/the-electonic-frontier-foundation-have-the-eff-investigate-microsoft-for-malicious-practices-regarding-windows-10

 

And i seen many PC centric news stories posted negative about Windows 10 written by Windows 10 users  because most people who post the PC centric news stories are pc geeks so id use that word hater lightly  . People who use Windows are not really Microsoft hatters , if they really hated Microsoft they not bother to use there products at all . Most news stories are just done for hits and they just post what they know will get readers to read it.. be it the truth or  a lie or even news worthy at all. Most PC centric news  is based on hear say It's all about Microsoft said this or that or this  person said this or that  its not factual tell it actually happens witch a lot of time it don't even happen the way they wrote it.  It's all boring and repetitious to say the lest. You been on the internet long enough too know this by now lol.

 

No one knows Microsoft's fate even Microsoft don't know its all just a bunch of want too to be physics posting  about  a soon to be dead technology that they cant even sell anymore , but any company who keeps laying off workers and downsizing like they do is getting smaller it's not growing larger .

 

[flitox]

this pool only shows that pools are total bullshit. just because the 1022 voters have 83% of them already on windows 10 doesn't mean that 83% of windows users are already on ten

[csmdew]

Let's do a poll on here, bet more than 60% on here are using win 10 on at least 1 pc/mobile device. Also just because 5K+ have signed a petition doesn't mean they aren't using win 10; they're just saying hate the invasion of privacy or something else about it.

[flitox]

maybe, maybe not.

 

but what we can get from the poll is for those that aren't on 10 already, the majority do not want to upgrade to 10 only 6% weren't on 10 already and say yes i'll upgrade while 11% say i'll stick with what i'm using now

[steven36]

3 minutes ago, csmdew said:

Let's do a poll on here, bet more than 60% on here are using win 10 on at least 1 pc/mobile device.

Polls by pc geeks and beta testers  on a windows warez forums  prove nothing  and never have had no bearing in the real world .  Many people on these forums use stuff because they can get it for free . A lot people used Vista and Windows 8.1 on these forums because they have cracks most of us have been testing software for years and a lot these guys upgraded to every version of windows they ever was just so they could say they  upgraded i been testing software for 15 years  and after 15 years of seeing this i'm not really impressed at all .

[steven36]

1 hour ago, flitox said:

this pool only shows that pools are total bullshit. just because the 1022 voters have 83% of them already on windows 10 doesn't mean that 83% of windows users are already on ten

Statcounter shows this by looking at O/S trends over the lat month and a half that  buy July 29th even if they had  a 4% gain witch is unheard of that 85% of the internet want be on Windows 10 at all by the time they claim it will become retail  and not a promotion  and no mater how hard Microsoft push it don't effect the masses  who migrated or started out on smartphone O/S. ether  With all the pushing they done  they just got a little over 10% of the internet base.

 

 

This is actual stats  done on over 3 million sites globally  not no poll of  1000 users designed to get windows 10 fanboys to vote .

 

[straycat19]

I took a poll today at work and mine is as valid as anyone elses.  9437 users are running Windows 7, 6922 users are running Windows 8.1, 276 users are running Linux, 574 users are running MacOSX, 0 users are running Windows 10.  Number of users who plan to upgrade to Windows 10 - 0000.  Number of users who are running Windows 10 on home machines 117.  Number who plan to upgrade home systems to Windows 10 - 0000.

 

I think my poll is more valid since I had many more participants.  (Though I will admit that the 117 users running Windows 10 at home aren't being supported by us and if they want our support they will have to have their systems imaged with Windows 7 or 8.1 or else they will have to buy all the software to use them for work.)  And you can actually double those poll numbers since every user has a desktop and a laptop computer. 

 

I also assured 100% participation of the users at work because they had to answer my survey when their systems booted and logged into the network and before they could begin doing any other work.  That's the advantage of controlling the system, I can force a Qualtrics survey to run anytime I want and force participation.

 

Windows 10 Hater and Proud Of It.  Microsoft is like ISIS or the Nazis and Satya Nadella is like Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi or Hitler. 

 

 

[Karlston]

10 hours ago, dMog said:

and the haters are grasping at straws to convince themselves they are right and the windows 10 users are wrong

 

Sorry, but Windows 10, like so many things in life is not a black and white choice. There's little in life that benefits all or screws all.

 

For some, Windows 10 is great and they use it happily and productively. Most are NOT fanbois and their decision should be respected!

 

For others, Windows 10 isn't great, they have legitimate reasons to NOT upgrade so they stick with Windows 7 or 8.1. Most are NOT haters and their decision should be respected!

 

Please try and understand that people differ and have legitimate reasons for their choice, even if their choice is different to yours!

 

That said, it's glaringly obvious that 83% are NOT on Windows 10. For a start that would make Microsoft's "300 million devices installed" a huge understatement, and I don't see their propaganda marketing division missing out on being able to quote a much higher number.

 

[Conley Powell]

     Even a Micro$oft worshiper should be able to grasp the obvious fact that any pollster can get any result he wants on any issue if he chooses those surveyed properly. We now know that there exists a group of 1022 people, 83% of whom are now using Windows 10 and 8% of whom don't plan to install it before July 29. This should be of no interest to anyone. 

[Ryrynz]

3 hours ago, Karlston said:

 

Sorry, but Windows 10, like so many things in life is not a black and white choice. There's little in life that benefits all or screws all.

 

For some, Windows 10 is great and they use it happily and productively. Most are NOT fanbois and their decision should be respected!

 

For others, Windows 10 isn't great, they have legitimate reasons to NOT upgrade so they stick with Windows 7 or 8.1. Most are NOT haters and their decision should be respected!

 

Please try and understand that people differ and have legitimate reasons for their choice, even if their choice is different to yours!

 

Yeah but you forget the general reluctance of people to change.. and the ignorant FUD they believe and spread in the process.
We can't even manage world peace, do you really think general users can form intelligent decisions to change something they're used to?

There are legitimate reasons sure, but those are often times far and few between.

Once the hate starts it's like a rot, people are stubborn and people are stupid, grasp those straws.

[steven36]

13 hours ago, Conley Powell said:

     Even a Micro$oft worshiper should be able to grasp the obvious fact that any pollster can get any result he wants on any issue if he chooses those surveyed properly. We now know that there exists a group of 1022 people, 83% of whom are now using Windows 10 and 8% of whom don't plan to install it before July 29. This should be of no interest to anyone. 

Windows 10 has over 300 million users maybe 400 million by now, Almost  every PC centric news site  you go too  Beta News , The Register , Ars Technica , etc some of them troll the readers comments in the post about windows  and argue with other Windows users that don't use Windows 10 .

 

They suppose to be giving people a reason to upgrade but they just insult  people without any really good reason too update . So if you make a poll about windows 10  guess who's going to show up ?

 

The only reason there is  to upgrade to Windows 10 it's free..  if  they are  on Windows 7 or 8.1 and  if they don't want Windows 10 they can wait  tell  the year 2020, if there on Windows 7 or 2023 , if there on Windows 8.1 and decide then if they want to buy Windows 10 or switch to another O/S.  Most likely they will buy a new PC one day anyways ..

 

Windows  10 ,  its not something you have too have and other reasons other than its free  is just personal choice , its noting in Windows 10 that makes it better than other windows for everyone. Most of the time I don't turn on Windows at all  because I don't need it and that's my personal choice . 

 

Life is not just about Windows There's many people on Smart Phone O/S . MAC OSX 10  and Linux Distros  that don't even have or want windows . Just because 1.5 billion people are depended on Windows don't mean everyone is..  that's only less than half of the internet . There's almost 4 billion on the internet now .

 

Microsoft better watch out too because they could lose many good paying customers to these alternatives the next time they decide to buy they buy something else that accesses the WWW.  

[fishbone]

Everyone needs to get used to the new design.

Windows 7 is still in XP style and that will be dumped to the trash can soon.

[steven36]

45 minutes ago, fishbone said:

Everyone needs to get used to the new design.

Windows 7 is still in XP style and that will be dumped to the trash can soon.

When did 4 years become soon?  People on Windows 7 can upgrade to windows 10 if they want and go back to windows 7 for 4 years if they want  . Soon it will be too late and you will have too give everyone you tell too upgrade 100 or 200 dollars before they can  . Probably by 2020 they will charge everyone for major upgrades,if they still make windows 10 . 

 

Windows 10 End of mainstream support October 13, 2020

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

 

Its not going to be free windows upgrades forever, you may as well forget that . People on Windows 10 don't know when they may have too buy it because Microsoft  has not explained  how  its  going to work as far as paying in the future.  At lest people on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 do know when there updates run out, people on Windows 10 don't have a clue they just know its free  tell July 29th.  There's something fishy about it   they not explaining it. Give it a rest July 29th is almost here.

 

And really you make no sense .. Windows XP is still  250 million users strong,  it may be dead by the time Windows 7 runs out of updates but Id rather have Vista SP2 or Windows 7 than XP  because they can push my hardware better . And most PCs with Windows 10 on them are vista, , windows 7 and windows 8.1 PCs so you going throw you're  PC in the trash? And Windows 10 users cant even get use too Windows 10 design . It keep changing 2 times a year . 

[npo33770]

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Its not going to be free windows upgrades forever, you may as well forget that . People on Windows 10 don't know when they may have too buy it because Microsoft  has not explained  how  its  going to work as far as paying in the future.  At lest people on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 do know when there updates run out, people on Windows 10 don't have a clue they just know its free  tell July 29th.  There's something fishy about it   they not explaining it. Give it a rest July 29th is almost here.

 

Yes, no one offers nothing for free, and we are talking about microsoft, not a shop in the corner

[mona]

11 hours ago, steven36 said:

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 People on Windows 10 don't know when they may have too buy it because Microsoft  has not explained  how  its  going to work as far as paying in the future.  At lest people on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 do know when there updates run out, people on Windows 10 don't have a clue they just know its free  tell July 29th.  There's something fishy about it   they not explaining it. Give it a rest July 29th is almost here.

 

 

Hmmm ........  Windows 7/8.1 users who were upgraded forcefully to Windows 10 Home - have their updates pushed to their systems obligatory. 

Does the same relate to future major updates [aka upgrades] ? 

 

If so - how on earth is MS going to make me pay for the update/upgrade I've never ordered [aka wasn't able to refuse] ?    

It must be a serious legal problem for MS .....  They will probably need to find a new trick to make users into it.

So I do agree with  @steven36 :  "There's something fishy about it"

 

[steven36]

6 hours ago, mona said:

Hmmm ........  Windows 7/8.1 users who were upgraded forcefully to Windows 10 Home - have their updates pushed to their systems obligatory. 

Does the same relate to future major updates [aka upgrades] ? 

Even it did update you,  because you hit the red x instead of  the decline button, you have 30 days to roll back ..If  they give you a way out that's not forcing you  . There's Never 10 , GWX Control Panel or just turn updates off and do  only needed ones yourself . Reality is they can't force you to do nothing you don't want too do. If they updated you it  is because you trusted Microsoft and you don't know what you were doing, even though it's been in the news for a year, you still trusted them?

 

6 hours ago, mona said:

If so - how on earth is MS going to make me pay for the update/upgrade I've never ordered [aka wasn't able to refuse] ?    

It must be a serious legal problem for MS .....  They will probably need to find a new trick to make users into it.

So I do agree with  @steven36 :  "There's something fishy about it"

 

Microsoft  can't make you do nothing ,but they don't have too give you new upgrades after the End of mainstream support October 13, 2020  its all ready posted at Microsoft  that's when it ends after that they only have to give security updates for a old version for another 5 years . but you will be 5 years behind those who paid in 2020 if they keep making  10 .but they can change there mind they did with XP before  . What is fishy about it is the fact  it;s posted at Microsoft   Windows 10 End of mainstream support October 13, 2020..  End of extended support  October 14, 2025  When you agree  to use windows  you agree that they can change there policies anytime they want . Nothing Microsoft does shocks me .

 

.If you want a O/S  without a 1000 strings attached you need to use open source  ,Windows 10 is not free it is just a free promotion  just like they had a free promotion if you bought a new Vista PC when Windows 7 came out they gave you Windows 7 free  They still own the rights to the software no matter witch windows you use . Its Digital  and you cant touch and fell it so it's really of no value  as a possession  unless you have a DVD with it on it lol. All this aside Windows 10 is not really that bad once you remove all the crappy adware apps with power shell and use a good firewall to block it from calling home it's almost like any other windows . :But it should be up to the person do they want to use it or not, and it is no ones call but you're own .

 

[Karamjit]

lets have a look at the total downloading for Windows10 till 2025.

nearly two 4Gb .iso final builds per year (4*2*10)...................80GB

cumulative patch per month worth 700 MB (700*12*10)........ 82GB

total downloading...................................................................162GB

 

after paying money for downloading 162GB the reward from Microsoft is: 0 privacy+buggy Windows+blue screen of death due to botched updates+FBI and NSA sponsored conspiracies+lot of head ache caused by broken systems+loss of time repairing the system

 

and who says we are not slaves of MS......we certainly are.

therefore i dumped windows yesterday and embraced Ubuntu 16.04. it runs like knife in butter.

 

[steven36]

1 minute ago, Karamjit Lal said:

 

and who says we are not slaves of MS......we certainly are.

therefore i dumped windows yesterday and embraced Ubuntu 16.04. i runs like knife in butter.

 

Even Linux has it's own problems it's mostly vendor related   The vendors still stop supporting  old hardware to force you to buy new . Ubuntu left many AMD users out in the cold   but forcing  updates on you is not one of there problems.

 

 

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jonathonTeacher | Technologist | Tea drinker  19d

Updating to 1.18 is already under consideration. The main issue is having a decent upgrade path for Catalyst (fglrx) users. We don't want to just do an Ubuntu and say "no more Catalyst, sort yourselves out".

 

 

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Heart-Of-A-Lion 19d

From what I read on the Arch wiki, is that the new AMDGPU driver will only support relatively new AMD graphics card architectures, starting with the Southern Islands architecture.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/once-amdgpu-pro-leaves-beta-is-manjaro-going-to-update-xorg/2617/7

 

The Windows Kernel  is better than the Linux kernel  in this respect . It took AMD  tell like Oct to get legacy Crimson drivers in place for old hardware for windows 10 but  Linux want never have good support when ever a disrto  decides to update the stack like Ubuntu  already done it leaves many with old hardware in the dark.