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Windows 10 adoption rate is stagnating
It seems that Microsoft is having a hard time retreiving more new users on Windows 10, the operating system install base has been stuck on 400 million for four months now. Evere since microsoft ended its free upgrade campaign that install abse remained roughly the same.
The company earlier this week announced that it has 400 million active Windows 10 users reports myce.com:
The slow growth is related to the the end of free Windows 10 upgrade period and the disappointing sales of Windows smartphones. It’s therefore very unlikely Microsoft will achieve its goal of 1 billion Windows 10 users by 2018.
“We’re very happy with the progress but due to the shifted focus of our smartphone hardware business it will take us longer to achieve the goal of 1 billion active devices by 2018,” according to a Microsoft spokesman.
Windows 10’s market share has grown with 2 to 3% after the free upgrade period ended, about a fifth of the 10% monthly growth when users could still upgrade for free.
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#5392148 Posted on: 02/13/2017 04:30 PM
You have to enable sideloading of UWP applications too AFAIK. Which is kind of like a barrier to entry for non-technical people.
You have to enable sideloading of UWP applications too AFAIK. Which is kind of like a barrier to entry for non-technical people.
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#5392152 Posted on: 02/13/2017 04:35 PM
That's a fair point. I wonder what the default would be for that in the future, or if applications running as admin can change it.
You have to enable sideloading of UWP applications too AFAIK. Which is kind of like a barrier to entry for non-technical people.
That's a fair point. I wonder what the default would be for that in the future, or if applications running as admin can change it.
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#5392156 Posted on: 02/13/2017 04:42 PM
I also have no problem whatsoever with UWP or the Store. I play both Forza APEX and Horizon 3 and love both of them. It's perfectly okay with me that the games are exclusives and I have no issues with them staying that way. Microsoft definitely has the right to market it's games in any way they want and if a game looks interesting to me, I have no hesitation in using the Store. In one way, the Store is better. If you have your apps on auto update, the games get updated and are ready when you want to play.
I do have one machine still on 7, my 2011 HP AMD APU powered laptop. I'm only keeping it for nostalgia reasons and it only supports DX11. I frequently do think seriously about upgrading it though. I only use it rarely these days since I got the W10 tablet that I use almost all the time as a laptop with it's keyboard attached.
When the new Windows phones come out, the adoption rate will pick up again. That is for certain. I look for them around mid-year or maybe a little later.
Windows 10 has been my best windows experience. Love it.
Same here. I have 4 W10 licenses. My gaming desktop, my 10" Atom powered tablet, my Lumia 640 smartphone, and a 12 year old single core laptop. All 4 machines run smoothly with no issues whatsoever. To me there is no reason not to upgrade and every reason to do so. One of the best things is the integration between machines which I think works even better than Google's implementation. For example, I add a bookmark on one machine and it automatically gets added on the others. I only use the MS browsers though, IE on the 3 PC's and Edge on the phone.
I also have no problem whatsoever with UWP or the Store. I play both Forza APEX and Horizon 3 and love both of them. It's perfectly okay with me that the games are exclusives and I have no issues with them staying that way. Microsoft definitely has the right to market it's games in any way they want and if a game looks interesting to me, I have no hesitation in using the Store. In one way, the Store is better. If you have your apps on auto update, the games get updated and are ready when you want to play.
I do have one machine still on 7, my 2011 HP AMD APU powered laptop. I'm only keeping it for nostalgia reasons and it only supports DX11. I frequently do think seriously about upgrading it though. I only use it rarely these days since I got the W10 tablet that I use almost all the time as a laptop with it's keyboard attached.
When the new Windows phones come out, the adoption rate will pick up again. That is for certain. I look for them around mid-year or maybe a little later.
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#5392158 Posted on: 02/13/2017 04:43 PM
Yeap. UI is what you said but... They work. They're fast and stable. And everything works good. That's enough for me to get used to them. After all I don't like how ferraris look but... They're fast and stable and i would really want a 458
Sorry but I'm going to have disagree with you about Windows 8/8.1 it UI is f***ing joke from hell I would much rather deal with Vista then Windows 8/8.1 any day.
Yeap. UI is what you said but... They work. They're fast and stable. And everything works good. That's enough for me to get used to them. After all I don't like how ferraris look but... They're fast and stable and i would really want a 458
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