Windows 10 continues to do well usage-share wise
How well is Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system doing after three months, and is its growth slowing down or picking up?
Usage-share stats from companies like NetMarketShare are one indicator of how well an operating system is doing after its release.
While the stats are not accurate, as they are based on large sample sizes instead of hard value which only Microsoft could provide, they do highlights trends.
So, how are things for Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system?
The rise continues from 6.63% in September 2015 to 7.94% in October 2015, an increase of 1.31%. Microsoft's other operating systems have dropped ever so slightly: Windows 7 fell from 56.53 to 55.71, Windows XP from 12.21% to 11.68%, and Windows 8.1 from 10.72% to 10.68%.
Growth is slowing down a bit but that was to be expected since most customers interested in the free upgrade offer should have accepted it and upgraded their system to Windows 10 by now.
Microsoft plans to deliver Windows 10 directly via Windows Update early next year which may push Windows 10 on systems running Windows 7 or Windows 8 and increase growth again.
The almost 8% of usage-share makes Windows 10 the fourth most popular desktop operating system trailing Windows XP and Windows 8.1 by less than four percent.
If the current trend continues, it will have surpassed both operating systems in less than four months to become the second most popular operating system.
Windows 10's real contender is Windows 7 however and it seems currently that the majority of Windows 7 users have no interest in the free upgrade offer to Windows 10.
And why should they? First, they have until next year to take Microsoft up on the offer. At least some are waiting for the first big feature update which Microsoft plans to deliver next year before they make a decision.
The latter makes sense in a number of ways. First, it allows customers who are waiting to assess the state of the system after the first big update patch. While Windows 10 runs fine when it comes to day to day tasks already, it is apparent that it is in an unfinished state currently.
November's Threshold 2 patch is a first step towards that goal bringing new apps and improvements across the board to the operating system.
Another reason may be that customer's don't want to be burned by another Windows Vista / Windows 8 fiasco. What I mean by that is that it is not clear yet if Windows 10 will be a top priority for Microsoft in the foreseeable future, or if the company will move away from it quickly, like it has done with Windows 8, to create another operating system to sway consumers.
It is unlikely that Windows 10 will share the fate of Windows 8 though unless growth slows down to a crawl in the coming months.
Other customers may not be interested in Windows 10 because of the data collection that is going on, or because they don't want to change a running system.
Considering that Windows 7 is supported until January 2020 with security patches, there is no need to hurry a decision.
Now You: Where do you see Windows 10 in a year?
What mental age of reader are you targeting with the first sentence? 10?
Why not write an article on how to *avoid* upgrading from W10 to W11. Analogous to those like me who avoided upgrading from 7 to 10 for as long as possible.
If your paymaster Microsoft permits it, of course.
5. Rufus
6. Ventoy
PS. I hate reading these “SEO optimized” articles.
I used Rufus to create an installer for a 6th gen intel i5 that had MBR. It upgraded using Setup. No issues except for Win 11 always prompting me to replace my local account. Still using Win 10 Pro on all my other PCs to avoid the bullying.
bit pointless to upgrade for the sake of upgrading as you never know when you’ll get locked out because ms might suddenly not provide updates to unsupported systems.
ps…. time travelling?
written. Jan 15, 2023
Updated • Jan 13, 2023
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Anyone willing to downgrade to this awful OS must like inflicting themselves with harm.
I have become convinced now that anybody who has no qualms with using Windows 11/10 must fit into one of the following brackets:
1) Too young to remember a time before W10 and W11 (doesn’t know better)
2) Wants to play the latest games on their PC above anything else (or deeply needs some software which already dropped W7 support)
3) Doesn’t know too much about how computers work, worried that they’d be absolutely lost and in trouble without the “”latest security””
4) Microsoft apologist that tries to justify that the latest “features” and “changes” are actually a good thing, that improve Windows
5) Uses their computer to do a bare minimum of like 3 different things, browse web, check emails, etc, so really doesn’t fuss
Obviously that doesn’t cover everyone, there’s also the category that:
6) Actually liked W7 more than 10, and held out as long as possible before switching, begrudgingly uses 10 now
Have I missed any group off this list?
You have missed in this group just about any professional user that uses business software like CAD programs or ERP Programs which are 99% of all professional users from this list.
Linux doesn’t help anyone who is not a linux kid and apple is just a fancy facebook machine.
Microsoft has removed KB5029351 update
only from windows update though
KB5029351 is still available from the ms update catalog site
1. This update is labaled as PREVIEW if it causes issues to unintelligent people, then they shouldn’t have allowed Preview updates ot install.
2. I have installed it in a 11 years old computer, and no problems at all.
3. Making a big drama over a bluescreen for an updated labeled as preview is ridiculous.
This is probably another BS internet drama where people ran programs and scripts that modified the registry until they broke Windows, just for removing stuff that they weren’t even using just for the sake of it.
Maybe people should stop playing geeks and actually either use Windows 10 or Windows 11, but don’t try to modify things just for the sake of it.
Sometimes removing or stopping things (like defender is a perfect example) only need intelligence, not scripts or 3rd party programs that might mess with windows.
Windows 11 was a pointless release, it was just created because some of the Windows team wanted to boost sales with some sort of new and improved Windows 10. Instead, Microsoft cannot support one version well let alone two.
Windows 11 is the worst ugly shame by Microsoft ever. They should release with every new W11 version a complete free version of Starallback inside just to make this sh** OS functionally again.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released a statement regarding the “unsupported processor” blue screen error for their boards using Intel 600/700 series chipsets & to avoid the KB5029351 Win11 update:
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/MSI-On–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–Error-Message-of-Windows-11-Update-KB5029351-Preview-142215
check out the following recent articles:
Neowin – Microsoft puts little blame on its Windows update after UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR BSOD bug:
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-puts-little-blame-on-its-windows-update-after-unsupported-processor-bsod-bug/
BleepingComputer – Microsoft blames ‘unsupported processor’ blue screens on OEM vendors:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-blames-unsupported-processor-blue-screens-on-oem-vendors/
While there may be changes or updates to the Windows 10 Store for Business and Education in the future, it is premature to conclude that it will be discontinued based solely on rumors.
My advice, I left win 15 years ago. Now I’m a happy linux user (linuxmint) but there is Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu depending on your needs.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released new BIOS/firmware updates for their Intel 600 & 700 series motherboards to fix the “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” problem (Sept. 6):
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/Updated-BIOS-fixes-Error-Message–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–caused-BSOD-on-MSI-s-Intel-700-and-600-Series-Motherboards-142277
I try to disable the Diagnostics Tracking Service (Connected Devices Platform User Services) but it wont let me disable it, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tank you for your help