Windows 10: Windows 10 Adoption Already Slowing Down

Your last line says it all, and I think that was a large part of Microsoft's marketing plan. If you have a s--tload of installations and upgrades, you can legitimately boast a high adoption rate (even if there is a shift back to their original OS). It's no different than when ISPs boast high residential customer numbers in order to attract business customers. That's where the real money is. And Microsoft will need to attract business.

Now it seems a number of posters on here are a tad too weary of negative Windows 10 press. Why so? There's no need to contradict negative Windows 10 experience stories. Let them stand on their own. Trust me, reading this forum, you'd get the idea that Windows 10 was endorsed by Jesus. It has plusses (seems relatively stable and seems quick even on moderately older hardware) so even though I detest the OS, I am being fair about both sides the way I see it.

But many here are asking, "if you post negativity about Windows 10, then why are you posting here?" And I'm sorry but when I come here to read about Windows 10 trends or patterns. I want to hear the whole story. So if someone has tried it and thinks it's a steaming pile, then that should be heard just as much as why you should adopt the OS. See, I run Vista, and there are those that show their ignorance by running it down using the same ol' 2006 arguments that it's slow as molasses. But if they ran it today, they'd know that SP2 and improved hardware fixed most of that. So sure, I know better than the Vista hater, but I don't want to muzzle that person, do I?

 

Well, I don't think it's quite that bad, but I hear ya. My greater worry is that once extended phase support expires on older Windows versions, will I like what Windows 10 has become by that time, enough to move to it? Ultimately, I have until January 2023, so we'll see.

 

Yup, I remember my old 300 baud handset modem that you had to physically couple with the handset of a telephone. It was like watching a teletype machine print the lines one character at a time, then 2400 where a whole line or two would come through at a time, then when 9600 came out I called my phone company and they told me that the infrastructure that was in place isn't capable of sending data at 9600 and yet it eventually went to 56k and then DSL on that same infrastructure. I called them because I was building up from a 4 line 2400 baud Wildcat BBS system to a 10 line DLX BBS and wanted to introduce 9600 baud to our growing userbase.

I only had to pay for about 5 of those lines as at the time, long distance carriers would pick up the whole months bill on each line if I switched them to their carrier, and they did this around once every 2 or so months.

But I was short sited... The internet came along and I mistakenly thought "it's just a fad, it will die out eventually". Thankfully I did shut down the BBS before it was running at a loss.

Yeah 10 isn't perfect but unless it starts to do something really nasty like putting out forced updates that brick peoples computers I'll stick with it to see where it heads.

 

January 2023 is an awfully long time off! I expect we'll see a lot of things by then. My goal is to be alive in 2023... *Wink

 

See I think 2023 will be here in a flash. Going back the other way is only 2008, and that went QUICK!

 

Yes, the old BBS days. I was a FidoNet node back in the 80's. I knew the Internet was coming (my older brother was an Arpanet developer back in the day), but was still surprised at how quickly it took off among the general public...

 

But, bbbut time is accelerating! *Smile

 

I am one of those with a laptop that I upgraded from win7 to Win10 and it went smooth. But wife was only playing a few facebook games and it got so bad with freezing that she wanted me to revert back to Win7. I did that 2 days ago (reverted back without a glitch) and she has not had a problem with anything since. I guess Windows 10 is still full of bugs for some systems. I am sure I will upgrade the laptop at a later date to see if those bugs are fixed.

cheers

 

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' Into the future

 

It's all about marketing. Windows 10 had to get out now. The school year is just about to start all over the western world and Christmas is right around the corner. If Microsoft released later it would have missed a huge opportunity. That being said, and despite it's rigourous pre-release mass testing campaign (which I suspect consisted largely of techies with high-grade hardware), it is still buggy. To be fair, the Windows platform is unique in that it attempts to work on hundreds - if not thousands - of hardware configurations (something its chief rival wouldn't dream of). The fact that it is so successful speaks for the tremendous work behind it.
So okay, I'm no fan but I give credit where credit is due, and I have my own frustration with incompatible devices and drivers but I think now that the average home and student users are booting up Windows 10, and the complaints start pouring in, we can expect lots of tweaks and updates soon.

 

I did some testing on very basic hardware, I even put it on a flash drive as a "windows to go" just to see if it works. I'm no computer expert, I just like playing with these things. I have upgraded one old machine but the main desk top and laptop machines won't get upgraded from W8.1 as there is no Media Centre in W10. I use Media Centre for watching TV and there is no comparable alternative.

 

Overall 10 is a good OS and definitely there is welcome changes like new mouse friendly user interface, integration of search in to Desktop etc. Only thing i don't like about 10 is the ugly icons - even though it can be changed manually.

 

Hi there

Wishing 'n Hoping !!!!

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[Cheers
jimbo

 

Wow! That Dusty Springfield song brings back ancient memories...

 

Very well said -- describe my personality type exactly!

It's also demeaning and insulting -- and totally uncalled for. It is OK to NOT like something -- whether that is new or old.