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2019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:

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 maxwell demon on Saturday January 11 2020, @04:04PM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday January 11 2020, @04:04PM (#942245) Journal

    15+ years ago, movie editing on a home PC was basically impossible.

    Video editing on the PC was definitely possible back then. You did need to have an extension card, but then, having extension cards in your PC was quite common in those days anyway. Oh, and you had to schedule some serious time for the final encoding step (but that was non-interactive, so you could do it over night).

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11 2020, @09:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 11 2020, @09:58PM (#942316)

    When a buddy of mine started back then, he used a free render farm. Basically a bunch of people pooled their computers to render each other's work. Set that as a priority over SETI@home and whatever other grid projects were available at the time because he thought the output was the most immediately useful.