heatlesssun
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http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-os-ww-daily-20150906-20150912
I know that many people take issue with these trackers and this one in particular but it does seem to show a consistent pattern of certain OSes spiking on the weekends and tailing off on weekdays which is most notable with Windows 10 which makes sense as it's not yet widely in the enterprise. But think it's a reasonable guesstimate of what's going on.
I'll be the first to admit that Microsoft is being hyper aggressive and pissing off some people with what they are doing. Obviously there're trying to get this number up as fast as they can with the reason for that being to get developers interesting in developing Windows Store and universal apps.
I'm guessing that Microsoft will announce 100 million Windows 10 machines this coming week as it looks like that's about where it is with this counter and the 75 million number being announce three weeks ago. Looks like a definite slow down from the beginning, However 100 million actual running Windows 10 machines in seven weeks is something that Microsoft would probably do again the same way with those kinds of numbers unless they could do even better.
I get the issues with 10, that it's free and pissing some people off over the upgrade process. But this is crazy high market share to snag this quickly with the vast bulk of it being upgrades and not new hardware which has for a long time been how the bulk of Windows users got new versions of Windows.
I know that many people take issue with these trackers and this one in particular but it does seem to show a consistent pattern of certain OSes spiking on the weekends and tailing off on weekdays which is most notable with Windows 10 which makes sense as it's not yet widely in the enterprise. But think it's a reasonable guesstimate of what's going on.
I'll be the first to admit that Microsoft is being hyper aggressive and pissing off some people with what they are doing. Obviously there're trying to get this number up as fast as they can with the reason for that being to get developers interesting in developing Windows Store and universal apps.
I'm guessing that Microsoft will announce 100 million Windows 10 machines this coming week as it looks like that's about where it is with this counter and the 75 million number being announce three weeks ago. Looks like a definite slow down from the beginning, However 100 million actual running Windows 10 machines in seven weeks is something that Microsoft would probably do again the same way with those kinds of numbers unless they could do even better.
I get the issues with 10, that it's free and pissing some people off over the upgrade process. But this is crazy high market share to snag this quickly with the vast bulk of it being upgrades and not new hardware which has for a long time been how the bulk of Windows users got new versions of Windows.
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