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posted by martyb on Friday January 10 2020, @09:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-Linux-owns-the-phones dept.

2019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop:

Windows 10, the operating system that Microsoft officially launched in mid-2015, became the number one desktop platform in 2020 after it managed to overtake its predecessor Windows 7.

[...] NetMarketShare [reports] Windows 10 started the year with 40.90% market share before dropping to 40.30% the next month. It reached a market share of 54.30% in November and ended 2020 with a personal record of 54.62%.

Windows 7, on the other hand, lost market share throughout the year, obviously because of the approaching end of support set for January 14. Windows 7 was running on 37.19% of the devices worldwide 12 months ago and then dropped gradually to a market share of 26.64% in December. With less than two weeks left until the end-of-life is reached, the market share of Windows 7 is very likely to continue going down, albeit not all devices will be upgraded before this milestone is reached.

Needless to say, the rest of the operating systems are far behind and pose no threat to the dominance of Windows 10. For example, Windows 8.1 is running on just 3.63% of the systems worldwide, while macOS 10.14 has a market share of 3.50%.


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  • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Saturday January 11 2020, @10:04AM (2 children)

    by inertnet (4071) on Saturday January 11 2020, @10:04AM (#942191) Journal

    I had no problems copying my entire Windows Thunderbird directory to the Linux version. You just have to figure out the correct location after installing it. Bookmarks can be exported and imported, that worked fine too.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Saturday January 11 2020, @03:55PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Saturday January 11 2020, @03:55PM (#942243)

    Email is Thunderbird, bookmarks are Firefox. I have a NAS that I can access from both Windows and Linux.

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  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday January 13 2020, @12:49AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Monday January 13 2020, @12:49AM (#942595) Homepage

    Moz has a function to import your profile. It doesn't care where the profile lives. I just copy it over and point Moz at it. My mail lives on its own partition so copying that is even easier.

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