StatCounter: Windows 10 Still Hasn’t Overtaken Windows 7

This is exactly the same thing that happens every time Microsoft releases a big new release of Windows. Many people complain about the changes, the install base goes up, many people switch, and then they discontinue updates. The same thing happened with Windows 3.1, 98, XP and now it's 7.

If you don't want to run 10, don't. There isn't really any reason you can't run 7 at the moment. The real shame is that PC applications aren't more cross-platform. There isn't much reason anymore not to just write every single app cross-platform, there are plenty of good frameworks for desktop apps and Vulkan is a good alternative to DirectX 12 that is available on every OS i can think of.
 
Just on a laptop Win 10 is just faster and uses half the resources. Classic Shell still works just fine...
 
lilbabycat said:
Hospitals and the healthcare industry say "Hi"
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Then they'll pay for 7 support. But assuming it's about telemetry as opposed to compatibility, they can just get Enterprise and they have the control if that's needed. And if it's about compatibility, then really that falls back on vertical s/w companies. They're HORRIBLE about updating software. When we went to 7, we had plenty of issues with vertical s/w that didn't work on 7. Software written for the general public and s/w engineers had no issues. Fortunately, MS had the XP VM support built in so I could run that for those shitty programs that we were stuck with.
 
BSmith said:
It probably will dominate, but not at this business. I already setup a Linux test system, for the biggest neophyte in the company, and she has been doing very well with it. Matter of fact, she is having fewer troubles than she did with Windows. A little bit of an eye opener. To be fair, she is in document control, so her applications are pretty well developed on Linux.

The challenge will be the engineers and their applications. Still sussing that one out.

What I like about Linux is, when it is done right, it is easier to support than Windows is. I'll have far fewer problems to deal with. Damn shame I am retiring about the time we get the switch done.

Management has been surprised how well she is dealing with it. They certainly are going to enjoy the reduced costs to support it. My performance bonus is looking like it will be the best ever. WOOHOO!
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Not sure what type of engineers you're referring to, but in the S/W space, most tools work fine for *nix. I still preferred Windows, but I developed on *NIX for several years and from 2007 on I was on Windows, but our development was for *nix servers, so if not for tools unrelated to S/W development not running on *nix, going to Linux wouldn't have beena big deal and might have been easier for development. I just didn't see much point in running *nix and then having to run Windows in a VM. Especially since some of our vertical tools were written for Windows (though a good chunk were Java based, and those mostly ran the same on Linux.
 
All our servers run some variant of UNIX. Even our Windows file servers run a UNIX. If there is a solution requiring a Windows server, then it is not the right solution. That is my approach on that.

Our software engineers are used to using Visual Studio, which, up until the latest versions, was very good. The complaints I get from them now is how laggy the latest versions are. At any rate, they are going to be tough to satisfy.

Our hardware guys are used to AutoDesk and Solidworks products. I just have to find comparable products. I have not started that research, but I imagine it is going to be a tough nut to convince the hardware staff to go with a different solution.

The eletrical engineers need circuit design and test software. They are not so picky as long as it works and the databases are kept up.

It will just take time to research it all.
 
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