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Windows 7 Market Share on the Rise again at Steam
According to the latest data serving from Steam's hardware survey report for May 2017, Windows 10 has a steady base of 50.01% of the pie. 49.05% use the 64-bit version of the OS and 0.96% gamers which utilize the 32-bit version.
Compared to the April report this is 1.06 percentage lower compared to the statistics provided in the April 2017 report. When you peek at Windows 7, it is climbing upwards to 36.75% of surveyed gamers. And 1% is huge when you look at the total install base. Previously that was 35.42% btw. It is an interesting observation, as it really should be the other way around.
Microsoft unveils Windows 10 Fall Creators Update - 05/11/2017 08:19 PM
New features of the codenamed Redstone 3 update include user interface change part of what Microsoft calls Fluent Design System and Timeline functions as well as OneDrive Files On-Demand. There wi...
Microsoft Patches the "Crazy Bad" Windows Vulnerability - 05/09/2017 04:10 PM
Earlier today we reported that Google Project Zero researchers found a ‘crazy bad’ Windows RCE flaw. Microsoft apparantly took it very serious, as it likely was one of the biggest...
Google Project Zero researchers find ‘crazy bad’ Windows RCE flaw - 05/09/2017 08:24 AM
Security experts at Google Project Zero team have discovered another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows OS, but this time the hackers defined it as the worst Windo...
300 Million people now use Windows 10 Daily - 05/08/2017 07:58 AM
Bloomberg did an interview with Microsoft's vice president Yusuf Mehdi, in that interview he announced that over 300 million people use Windows 10 on a daily basis....
Windows 10 S Users Cannot Switch Default Browser or Search Engine - 05/03/2017 01:09 PM
Yesterday Microsoft announced its Windows 10 S operating system. And it is even more limited than expected. If you own a laptop with the OS installed, you cannot switch your browser to say Chrome, nei...
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#5438574 Posted on: 06/02/2017 05:13 PM
Still Enjoying Windows 7 without issue across all 3 machines I have, and still seeing my co-workers regularly fight with their Win 10 upgrades.
When I'm ready to move, I'll format and install clean, but there's no good reason yet.
Still Enjoying Windows 7 without issue across all 3 machines I have, and still seeing my co-workers regularly fight with their Win 10 upgrades.
When I'm ready to move, I'll format and install clean, but there's no good reason yet.
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#5438578 Posted on: 06/02/2017 05:29 PM
Good,good,now let see the M$ move: another patches & ransomware to cripple Windows 7.
Windows 7 Users Hit the Hardest by WannaCry Ransomware
In the other news:
WikiLeaks Vault 7: CIA's "Pandemic" Tool Replaces Files with Malware
The latest WikiLeaks release focuses on Pandemic, a tool that replaces legitimate files with malicious payload.
Appropriately called "Pandemic," the tool can install a file system filter driver on a network, replacing legitimate files with malicious payload when they are accessed remotely via the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
"Pandemic does NOT//NOT make any physical changes to the targeted file on disk. The targeted file on the system Pandemic is installed on remains unchanged. Users that are targeted by Pandemic, and use SMB to download the targeted file, will receive the 'replacement' file," reads the tool's description.
This makes this tool a rather interesting one to have since it is particularly difficult to identify infected systems. Since Pandemic replaces files while in transit, instead of modifying them on the device the malware is running on, the legitimate files remain unchanged.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-s-pandemic-tool-replaces-files-with-malware-516204.shtml
But what matters is this:
Operating system market share
Btw,on the cpu side: the rise of 6-8-12 cores.Ryzen is up.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/
Good,good,now let see the M$ move: another patches & ransomware to cripple Windows 7.
Windows 7 Users Hit the Hardest by WannaCry Ransomware
In the other news:
WikiLeaks Vault 7: CIA's "Pandemic" Tool Replaces Files with Malware
The latest WikiLeaks release focuses on Pandemic, a tool that replaces legitimate files with malicious payload.
Appropriately called "Pandemic," the tool can install a file system filter driver on a network, replacing legitimate files with malicious payload when they are accessed remotely via the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.
"Pandemic does NOT//NOT make any physical changes to the targeted file on disk. The targeted file on the system Pandemic is installed on remains unchanged. Users that are targeted by Pandemic, and use SMB to download the targeted file, will receive the 'replacement' file," reads the tool's description.
This makes this tool a rather interesting one to have since it is particularly difficult to identify infected systems. Since Pandemic replaces files while in transit, instead of modifying them on the device the malware is running on, the legitimate files remain unchanged.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-s-pandemic-tool-replaces-files-with-malware-516204.shtml
But what matters is this:
Operating system market share
Btw,on the cpu side: the rise of 6-8-12 cores.Ryzen is up.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/
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#5438585 Posted on: 06/02/2017 05:56 PM
it's the creators update. I'm on my 4th fresh install inside a month due to unfixable system issues. not playing well with my specific hdr 4k setup. i've had an ssd fail after transferring windows applications like forza 6 and horizon 2 onto it too which used up a chunk of viable sectors faster than anything i've seen.
it's the creators update. I'm on my 4th fresh install inside a month due to unfixable system issues. not playing well with my specific hdr 4k setup. i've had an ssd fail after transferring windows applications like forza 6 and horizon 2 onto it too which used up a chunk of viable sectors faster than anything i've seen.
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#5438596 Posted on: 06/02/2017 06:34 PM
No, it means that steam stats are bogus as usual.
I am still not getting survey opportunity and manual trigger tells that I already did them all.
So, for steam I am still with HD7970, Kingston V100 SSD, Windows 8.1...
It is simple, they probe certain tiny percentage of users every month and if it hits wrong crowd, stats go far away from reality of entire steam community.
Does it seem like more gamers are disappoint with new windows and going back to win7?
No, it means that steam stats are bogus as usual.
I am still not getting survey opportunity and manual trigger tells that I already did them all.
So, for steam I am still with HD7970, Kingston V100 SSD, Windows 8.1...
It is simple, they probe certain tiny percentage of users every month and if it hits wrong crowd, stats go far away from reality of entire steam community.
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It's hardly surprising, Win 10 for gamers has nothing going for it, it's to intrusive and bloody annoying with it's updates..