Windows 10: After 53 million installs, Windows 10 takes 4.95% of the market

Windows 3.0 sold 800,000 copies in first 2 months, by Jul 1990
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Windows 3.0 sold 10-million copies in 2 years, by Apr 1992
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Windows 3.1 sold more than 100 million copies by Aug 1995
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Windows 95 copies hit the 1 million sold mark 1 week after release in Aug 1995
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Windows XP sold 32 million copies by May 2002 - after 7 months of sales (first sold Oct 25 2001)
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Windows Vista sold 20 million copies first month (Mar 2007)
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Windows Vista sold 100 million copies in the first 100 days (May 2007)
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Windows 7 released October 22, 2009 - "In just six months, over 100 million copies had been sold worldwide, increasing to over 630 million licenses by July 2012, and a market share of 60.75% of "desktop operating systems" as of July 2015" - Wikipedia
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Windows 8 released October 26, 2012. "Despite these shortcomings, 60 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold through January 2013, a number which included both upgrades and sales to OEMs for new PCs." - Wikipedia
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Windows 8.1 released On October 17, 2013. "Market Share - According to Net Applications, the adoption rate in March 2015 for Windows 8.1 was at 10.55%, three times that of the original Windows 8 at 3.52%"- Wikipedia
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Windows 10 released On July 29, 2015. In less than 3 weeks, 53-million installs.

 

If it's not Windows 10 it's not Windows 10.

 

It may be free but unlike for example Windows 8 it is very much tied to your current hardware.

When Windows 7 came out I was able to purchase a fully flexible retail copy at a reduced price.

 

Not if what they are counting is the installations via the Get Windows 10 app.

 

Will windows 10 have the potential to surpass windows 7's high market share (atm).

 

Considering that there won't be a Windows 11, 10's market share will surpass 7. Watch how quickly MSFT will close the OEM channels to anything but 10.

 

Yusuf Mehdi ‏@yusuf_i_mehdi · 2h2 hours ago
1. #Windows10: More than 75 million devices running Windows 10 – and growing every day. 1/10

 

Yes but many of these sales were for computers pre installed with windows. I would like to see how many changed or went back to an old OS.

I know many people who brought a computer with Win 8/8.1 and erased and installed an OEM Win 7.

 

Thanks for posting all this info... as I started Windows with MS 3.0 .be safe. Cliff M.

 

I really not sure what the old Windows was called when it was first so.................. slow and we were running it on Model III and Model IV Tandy machines in the early days... Maybe someone remembers what it was called... tks Cliff M.

 

Windows 10 Tracking Added to Windows 7 & 8

Those avoiding Windows 10 for privacy reasons will not be pleased if they have been blindly installing Optional Updates in Windows 7 and 8.

KB308019 - "This package updates the Diagnostics and Telemetry tracking service to existing devices. This service provides benefits from the latest version of Windows to systems that have not yet upgraded"

KB3075249 - "This update adds telemetry points to the User Account Control (UAC) feature to collect information on elevations that come from low integrity levels."

These updates can be uninstalled and hidden but recent actions on the part of Microsoft have lost the trust of many.

- The "Get Windows 10" update KB3030583 was originally offered as an Optional update and was then escalated to an Important update to force install it on the unwary.

- Windows 10 Home cannot refuse updates.

- Microsoft has said they will provide explanations of what updates do only when "they" consider it significant.

- Windows Insiders had their privacy setting reset when they installed b10525

Instead of crowing over 53 million upgrades to Windows 10 Microsoft should be more concerned with why 947 million are saying NO!

 

Im happy with my clean install of 10, was not happy with just the upgrade though. on my t100ma cortana cannot use my mic algorithms , mic works but cortana says nope. (uk english install is why) why i did that living in tx?...donno

 

I believe it was just called Windows 3.1. Or at least im pretty sure it was, i can even see the boot screen on it.

 

I noticed my 8.1 was booting noticeably slower of late. Found it was the two updates you referenced, uninstalled them and back to the boot time I had previously.

And 3.1 was my first also. *Smile

 

Am I imagining things? Seriously, these two updates caused much slower boot time on my laptop.