Windows 7 Market Share on the Rise again at Steam
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chronek
Does it seem like more gamers are disappoint with new windows and going back to win7?
Aura89
Biggest problem with the way that steam does their surveys, is they only survey a (relatively) small percentage of the people. For instance, i just got a survey request and it was the first one i've gotten in......i don't even remember how long, could be 6 months, could be 12, could be more.
If they are going to do "monthly" survey information that is accurate, they really need to send out survey requests to everyone, all the time. True, not everyone will say yes, but it'd be a whole lot more accurate then putting out a monthly survey with information that is 12+ months ago for the majority of the information.
Amaze
I was more surprised at the adoption rate of win10 among gamers. They really took MS up on their offer.
MadGizmo
Maybe it's a time of the year thing. A lot of kids are free from school and some get their old computer out of the closet?
It appears like there is an increase in the usage of older hardware as well. That would go hand in hand. There's an increase in 2 core CPUs and 4GB memory owners. Dual core increased 1.35% and quad core is down 1.32%. 4GB is up 1.33% and 8GB decreased 0.42%. The rest remains stable.
There is also something else odd about this month's survey. There is an increase of 2.15% of English speakers. A handful of other languages increase 0.11% max. All other languages are either stable or decrease. There simplified Chinese leads with -1.88%, followed by Russian with -0.39%.
Perhaps this is all within the margin of error, though.
Ricepudding
Always to be taken with a grain of salt i guess... GTX 750ti users are also up 0.54% and directX 8 GPU's are up 0.23% so could just be a little blimp, of people getting old pc's out? maybe?
gopher04
It's hardly surprising, Win 10 for gamers has nothing going for it, it's to intrusive and bloody annoying with it's updates..
rm082e
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.
Turanis
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/
bemaniac
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.
Fox2232
Fox2232
PrMinisterGR
We all know that the Steam hardware survey literally means nothing at this point, right? The only company that might have more or less accurate statistics about actual PC hardware trends is Microsoft.
rm082e
XP-200
If we check on recent tin foil sales, you will see a rise of 1.40%, make of that what you will.:P
Aura89
Denial
Aura89
airbud7
They Know...Trust Me.
DLD
Huh!
"...as it really should be the other way around."
There is a saying in Serbian "shto je babi milo, to joj se i snilo" (in loose translation "what the grandma is pleased with, that's what she meets in her dreams"). In this particular case, the grandma is actually a grandpa Billy...:banana:
Denial