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posted by janrinok on Sunday September 04 2016, @02:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the home-versus-business dept.

Windows 10's market share continues to grow a point or two a month, but it's also cracked the milestone of being the most-used version of Windows on weekends.

That's The Register's conclusion after downloading the US Government Analytics service's latest 90-day dump recording over a billion visits to US government web sites. That's as big a sample as we can find anywhere, so we figure it's at least as newsworthy as the other two sources we track for market share, NetMarketshare and Statcounter.

We've remarked in the past that operating system usage rates change during the week. A mature OS like Windows 7 will do well Monday to Friday because business has embraced it. A new OS like Windows 10 will do okay during the working week, but will initially do rather better on weekends because consumers are faster to adopt new code than businesses.

Windows 10 has displayed that pattern of adoption and continues to do so. But over the last 90 days it has also won more market share over the weekend than Windows 7. Here's the latest graph we've cooked up showing the trend.

Its hardly surprising seeing that Microsoft have made it very difficult not to upgrade.


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  • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Sunday September 04 2016, @03:27AM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Sunday September 04 2016, @03:27AM (#397245) Journal

    True to that but it can tell when data is flowing that I did not request or generate, and to where initially it is flowing. I have been meaning to have a friend of mine bring a fluke or a sniffer over and hook it up to 'see what I can see' but I am sure it will just be the other side of the mountain. I don't bank or do much but surfing from the laptop, but I do watch lots of TV via Dish and DirecTV apps, Amazon prime, and other online shared resources.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NotSanguine on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:43AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:43AM (#397271) Homepage Journal

    True to that but it can tell when data is flowing that I did not request or generate, and to where initially it is flowing. I have been meaning to have a friend of mine bring a fluke or a sniffer over and hook it up to 'see what I can see' but I am sure it will just be the other side of the mountain. I don't bank or do much but surfing from the laptop, but I do watch lots of TV via Dish and DirecTV apps, Amazon prime, and other online shared resources.

    Just use tcpdump [freebsd.org] on your BSD firewall and capture to a file ('-w /path/to/capturefile' option) and pull the capture file to your desktop and analyze it with Wireshark [wireshark.org].

    No Fluke/Sniffer hardware (or friend) required.

    Or you could go for complete overkill and use OSSEC [wikipedia.org] or Nagios [wikipedia.org].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @11:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @11:51AM (#397352)

    True to that but it can tell when data is flowing that I did not request or generate, and to where initially it is flowing.

    That's like saying "I can tell when someone is punching me in the face", which is useless. The important question is: can you prevent the data from flowing?
    It's all fine and dandy that you can tell you are being raped, but can you stop if from happening?