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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.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday September 04 2016, @11:33PM
> convert all your books over (by hand)
Gnucash has an importer.
https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/gnucash/1.6.4/arch/i386_linux24/share/gnome/help/gnucash/C/xacc-qif-import.html [mit.edu]
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Monday September 05 2016, @06:36PM
From your own link:
"In the next section, I'll give an overview of the QIF file and its "features". This may seem unnecessarily technical, but if you at least glance through it you will be much better able to understand what's going on if you are having to jump through hoops to make make a problematic file work right, and how you might be able to jump right in and edit the QIF file to fix really tough problems. "
The sort of fun afternoon ONLY an open source + accounting nerd would choose.
All to get into an accounting package almost nobody uses, and very few accountants have even heard of.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday September 05 2016, @09:47PM
The QIF files they're writing about are generated by Quicken. That's the proprietary software. You're faulting the Gnucash authors for documenting Intuit's file format.
Here's what Intuit has to say on its page called "Importing and Exporting QIF-Formatted Account and List Information":
The following items cannot be moved to a new data file with the import and export procedures and must be entered manually.
[...]
- Asset allocation information
- Budget settings and data
- Calendar notes
[26 more things]
--https://www.quicken.com/support/importing-and-exporting-qif-formatted-account-and-list-information [quicken.com]
Naturally, Intuit has deprecated QIF in favour of its binary QXF format. Outrageously, banks pay Intuit to use its proprietary file format:
QFX is Intuit's proprietary version of the standard OFX financial interchange file format. [...] A QFX file is a standard OFX file with additional fields to support a licensing fee paid by institutions to Intuit. In contrast, the standard OFX format is a free and open standard. Intuit's Quicken software will only import QFX files where the providing institution has paid the fee and in some cases passed quality tests, otherwise giving the error message "Quicken is currently unable to verify the financial institution information for this download".
--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QFX_(file_format) [wikipedia.org]
Some poor sod tried to bring a QXF file from the Windows version of Quicken to the Macintosh version:
When I try to import .QXF converted Quicken (Quicken Deluxe 2011) files on my windows machine (Windows 7) to Quicken 2015 on my Mac I get an error message. The message says I'm using an outdated version of the conversion utility tool or am converting from an outdated version of Quicken.
[someone answered:]
[...] run Quicken for Windows in a virtual machine on your Mac [...]
Another alternative is to convert your data to QM2007 Lion Compatible (LC), which is closer to the Windows version, though still lacking in some features. [...]--https://web.archive.org/web/20150825015020/https://qlc.intuit.com/questions/1167020-why-can-t-i-import-qxf-converted-files-to-my-mac [archive.org]