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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 mhajicek on Sunday September 04 2016, @03:25AM
Will you still be happy when you have to pay $200 a year to keep using your computer?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Chromium_One on Sunday September 04 2016, @03:51AM
We're already there. it's just that as per usual the future is just unevenly distributed.
You want solitaire? Pay up, and keep paying until you don't want it anymore.
You want Office? Pay up, and keep paying until you don't want it anymore.
This is slipping in slowly, it's not affecting everyone's usage patterns yet, but it will be.
The frog needs a slow boil before people will accept paying monthly to be allowed to use DirectX or Notepad.
Will things go that far? Depends on the pushback between now and then. Get pushing people.
When you live in a sick society, everything you do is wrong.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday September 04 2016, @04:05AM
Sheeple don't push until they find they're bring herded into the slaughterhouse...
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday September 04 2016, @05:15AM
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Sunday September 04 2016, @06:54PM
If and when it comes to that I'll stop using windows and go to using *nix. Right now I use libre office in-lieu of M$ office and the primary use of windows IS DirectX. I have several machines running other OS's it's just that despite all the advances in wine and other gaming platforms DirectX still rules the roost and I like to play online games with the first wave rather than wait for someone to reverse engineer the product. MMORPG's are better with large crowd and in the first run.
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