Windows 10: As 2015 comes to a close, Windows 10 surpasses 200 million installs

Windows 10 advertising though is much more like buying a DVD because you like that film, then having adverts pop up on screen several times , requiring you to click on your remote on a certain place on the screen to continue, Or like your TV doing the same.

 

I have my gripes too, but, you know what..., just go with it! Life's too short! *Wink

 

You sound like my wife. She always says: " Go with the flow ".

 

You are right about that. I swapped my TV/internet to a fibre deal last month and am very paranoid I'll accidentally subscribe to some extra channels by pressing the wrong button....

 

If it's anything like here in the US, keep an eye on the TV part. I changed providers and got stuck with a two year deal, and as well, they kept sneaking in subscription stuff I didn't order. Thankfully the two years ended and that provider has been cancelled.

 

How can he be darned for not critiquing 10? This is my take. I use several versions of Linux for around 2 months total, which is what I did. Then I go into a support forum and complain/critique an OS that I barely used and haven't in some time. I would have no point of reference to any updates and little experience in using it in the first place. My expectations from the members would be they would either laugh me out or just ban me. Lots of the Linux forums are not a friendly as this one and the ones that John owns.

It's really ok to critique an OS like 10 but when someone has made their point well and clean why beat that point home. I think we got the message already.

Just my usual 2c..
Jeff

 

Thanks.. there are several members here who critique an OS that they don't currently use or want to and it gets a bit frustrating to see comments that are from non users. Heck,, no one is forcing anyone to use this OS. And if anyone finds that the OS is being forced as in the update process many members will gladly help to make sure that will not occur. And there are several good tutorials by Shan on that subject.

I enjoy using 10... it's a nice tool so I can run my software and apps. Why do I use it?? Not because I love it.. it's because it's the OS that will receive the most support now and in the future. That's why..
Again.. my 2c

Jeff

 

Yeah right - this is a bad scenario if people comment on programs they never used. But there is a lot of hearsay stuff going around. What can you do.

 

Oh boy - here we go with multi-quote! *Wink

I have to agree with this. And, I have in fact, had 2 people whose machines were overtaken by the update with no option to refuse. Not sure how it got to that point, but it really shouldn't, period.

Again, I have to agree. Once you tell MS you are not interested in upgrading, they should leave you alone. I have 3 systems on W10 (one in TP), 3 systems on W8.1, and right now I prefer to leave the 8.1s where they are. But MS are not respecting my choice. Matter of fact, I wanted to leave one of the 8s at 8.0, but MS thought they knew better than I.

Agreed. And MS will become even more aggressive in 2016 with upgrades, changing the WU from recommended to important/standard. So those that have auto-updates on will get it even if they don't want it.

Agreed. And for the average, non-technical user, it shouldn't be this difficult.

It's not that a user is incapable of deciding how to answer the question, it's that the question keeps asking itself over and over and over, as if the answer makes no difference, and then sometimes, there is no answer to give, you just get the upgrade whether you wanted it or not.

Don't you just hate when that happens?! *Mad

 

I never said Win 10 was a failure. I never said I didn't like Windows 10. I do like Win 10 and have it installed on all of my computers. I'm just curious of what the number would be if Win 10 wasn't a free upgrade. If MS wants to brag about the number of installs of Win 10 they shouldn't stack the deck by giving away the OS for free. They should judge the success of Win 10 by the number of users willing to pay for it.

 

How do those W10 update pictures apply in the case of W7 (and probably W8 series) users being "tricked" into installing W10?

MS does.

The W8 series has been a disaster by MS' own standards.
It never even came close to obtaining the market share that Vista attained at its peak.

W10 is on track to overtake the W8 series (probably in the first quarter of 2016).

 

That is not a big deal because W8 was not a blockbuster.

 

Maybe not to us, but I bet it is to MS.

If W10 turns out to be a failure (i.e. people stop installing it) they will have to bring out W11 despite saying that will never happen.

 

The statistics clearly say that W7 rules.

 

Exactly. If part of Microsoft's goal is to spur PC sales, it may not have done that quite yet, because they have focused on expanding the Windows 10 user base. I'm interested in that information. And there's nothing wrong with tearing the figures apart to see what's really happening.