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Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)

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Leaks confirm low takeup for Windows 11::Time to rethink Windows 10 support cycle then?

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Windows 10 replaced 7 for most people because 8 was a piece of junk.

Mostly true; most people who wound up with 8 or 8.1 did so by buying a computer during that brief period of time, few people wanted it, few people liked it, and many people avoided using it. Especially computer enthusiasts did in fact go from 7 to 10.

Windows 7 was old by the time 10 came out so there was pent up demand and 10 was a pretty solid showing.

That's not how I remember events. When Windows 10 was young it was not very popular; they got a lot of backlash for that "Upgrade to Windows 10! [yes] [not yet]" pop-up that took no answer as a yes and installed the OS on idling computers overnight.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows 8/8.1 was dark times for me

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Win8.1 is specifically why I'm typing this on a machine running Linux Mint.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe that was an issue with Windows 10 on the consumer side. I don't have experience with the home versions. In any case, it was a good upgrade and it provided more secure desktops for most people. On the corporate side, we were pretty happy to go to 10 and it was a smooth process. We had to do it in phases and we got a lot more calls from users wanting to move higher on the list than complaints. There were only a few asking to be last and the only real problem we had was one guy who demanded we buy him a refurbished Surface that had a specific old version of 8 pre-installed because it was "the best version ever".