El Reg reports
Microsoft may have used its Ignite conference to trumpet Windows 10 now running on 400 million devices, but the operating system's market share went backwards in September according to two of three traffic-watchers we track each month.
StatCounter Global Stats has Windows 10 at 24.42 per cent desktop OS market share for September, down just .01 per cent from its August share. Netmarketshare recorded a sharper dip, from August's 22.99 per cent to a September reading of 22.53 per cent.
[...] StatCounter has recently recorded a surge in "Unknown" desktop operating systems, [...] suggesting tracking and/or methodological issues.
We therefore checked out another useful source of data, [USA.gov]. When we crunched those numbers, we found Windows 10 accounted for 31.98 per cent of visits to US government sites in August and 32.48 per cent in September, which hardly suggests Microsoft's latest OS is rocketing up the charts.
[...] Our analysis of this data last month suggested Windows 10 has done very well at home, but is yet to crack the business market.
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Some things that occurred to me (with most being mentioned in the comments there):
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Francis on Saturday October 08 2016, @10:18PM
Even at $0 and no effort put into getting the update it was still too expensive and too much work to justify. I tried it for a few days, saw it was complete garbage and upgraded back to 7 for my Windows install.
It's amazing to me that people are still willing to give MS money for such incompetently designed products.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Marand on Sunday October 09 2016, @01:09AM
I would have gone back to 7 on that partition if I'd been able to but between 7 being half busted already, and then W10 destroying my Windows partition during the update process, I ended up stuck. Heh. Considering how rarely I use it, though, it's mostly irrelevant.
In fairness to MS, there actually is some good to Windows 10. I noticed MS actually got around to fixing some dumb shit that I found annoying in 7, such as some problems with font rendering, multiple displays, a dumb visual glitch with one of their mouse cursor icon sets, etc. I didn't even mind the style of the W10 start menu, though I know some people dislike it.
Too bad they fucked it up with the GWX harassment, the telemetry, the broken-as-fuck update process, lack of control over updates, lack of control over installed applications, tendency to add shit onto your system without asking, advertisements in the notification bar, advertisements replacing the lock screen, and so on.... They did a good job of making me feel smug about deciding years ago to use Linux as my primary OS.