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Windows 7 (Not Windows 10) Wins 2016

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Microsoft has been pushing very hard (and sometimes very aggressive) for users to move to Windows 10 and 2016 was quite a controversial year in this regard, with many people saying that the company went a little too far in its attempt of boosting adoption of its latest operating system.
 
And while Microsoft itself also admitted that it was wrong to become so pushy on Windows 10 upgrades, statistics show that despite all of these, it’s still Windows 7 the desktop operating system that was number one last year.
 
Desktop OS market share in 2016


 
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Ssherjj
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Hi Webrooters! 
 
Its interesting to know what everyone is using.
 
May i say I have 2 Desktops upgraded to 10 from Windows 7 and a laptop with 10 and another laptop with 7. I do like Windows 10 a lot and haven't looked back. But it's always nice to have one with Windows 7. ;)
 
And of course my Mac OS....
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Staggering to see XP still in third place with nearly 10%! On that basis Win 7 will be with us for a very long time!
I was also surprised by the number of users still using XP. I was one of the holdouts who decided to stay with WIN 7 on my main desktop. I have WIN 10 on my laptop and a couple of other desktops. I have to say that now that I've gotten used to WIN 10, I have grown to like it. I'm still debating whether I want to upgrade my WIN 7 desktop to WIN 10. As far as I know, there is still an option for upgrading for free. I find myself missing WIN10 when I'm using WIN 7, but not so much the other way around.
 
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Win 10 Enterprise x64
&  virtual machine: win 7 -8.1-10 :D
May I ask what virtual software you use Petrovic? I was thinking of using Virtualbox but haven't managed to amend the BIOS yet to allow it to work.

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:p:p Windows 10 :p:p
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Staggering to see XP still in third place with nearly 10%! On that basis Win 7 will be with us for a very long time!
Nemo
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That's interestin BD. I'm still holding out on Win 7 on my one and only Windows machine and suspect that I will remain here for a while yet.
 
Petrovic
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Hi Webrooters! 
 
Its interesting to know what everyone is using.
 
May i say I have 2 Desktops upgraded to 10 from Windows 7 and a laptop with 10 and another laptop with 7. I do like Windows 10 a lot and haven't looked back. But it's always nice to have one with Windows 7. ;)
 
And of course my Mac OS....
Win 10 Enterprise x64
&  virtual machine: win 7 -8.1-10 😃
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Win 10 Enterprise x64
&  virtual machine: win 7 -8.1-10 :D
May I ask what virtual software you use Petrovic? I was thinking of using Virtualbox but haven't managed to amend the BIOS yet to allow it to work.
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Wait, what, ..there's a Windows 10?
?
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:p:p Windows 10 :p:p
But not for very much longer...LOL...will be gone the way of the dinosaurs.;)
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Sherry,
 
Respectfully, there are words and there are deeds.
 
That Microsoft requires that I open up their monitoring of my computer just so I can access my Credit Union bank account is just unacceptable.  That is a deed.  It is what they do, not what they say.  MS does not need my bank's password or to monitor anything on my computer that requires that I expose my password.  I can not believe the tech industry is yielding to MS's demand for this type of access.  In essence, W10 is malware in my mind.
 
But I thank you for sharing the weblink posts and concern for experience.
 
Mark
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Hi Webrooters! 
 
Its interesting to know what everyone is using.
 
May i say I have 2 Desktops upgraded to 10 from Windows 7 and a laptop with 10 and another laptop with 7. I do like Windows 10 a lot and haven't looked back. But it's always nice to have one with Windows 7. ;)
 
And of course my Mac OS....
Win 10 Enterprise x64
&  virtual machine: win 7 -8.1-10 :D
Nice @.... Enterprise eh? I forgot VMs! 😉
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Thanks, I'll take a look and compare with VB.
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Wait, what, ..there's a Windows 10?
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:D
I still have an old XP Desktop that has a floppy disc but that's way to many disc's to install. LOL
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:p:p Windows 10 :p:p
But not for very much longer...LOL...will be gone the way of the dinosaurs.;)
I'll run it until it dies. 😃
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Wait, what, ..there's a Windows 10?
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Wait, what, ..there's a Windows 10?
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Wait, what, ..there's a Windows 10?
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:D
You are a funny guy @!
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Wait, what, ..there's a Windows 10?
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:D
I still have an old XP Desktop that has a floppy disc but that's way to many disc's to install. LOL
I still have a floppy disk in my Dell desktop running W 10.
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Wait, what, ..there's a Windows 10?
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:D
I still have an old XP Desktop that has a floppy disc but that's way to many disc's to install. LOL
I still have a floppy disk in my Dell desktop running W 10.
I don't to kill my old P1 2600MHz Dell 8200 to install Win 10 on it with only 1GB of RD RAM. 😃
Ssherjj
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Wait, what, ..there's a Windows 10?
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:D
I still have an old XP Desktop that has a floppy disc but that's way to many disc's to install. LOL
I still have a floppy disk in my Dell desktop running W 10.
I don't to kill my old P1 2600MHz Dell 8200 to install Win 10 on it with only 1GB of RD RAM. :D
I had XP on it and had to upgrade the Ram and video card to install W7.
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I my opinion, Windows 10 is the best operating system since Windows 2000.!! I upgraded our laptops the first day it was available.
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I still have an old XP Desktop that has a floppy disc but that's way to many disc's to install. LOL
 
 
5.25"?
or..........


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I still have an old XP Desktop that has a floppy disc but that's way to many disc's to install. LOL
 
 
5.25"?
or..........


:D
 
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I am not surprised, although I use 8.1 on my new computer and win 7 the old.
 
What I have not seen mentioned here is what surprises me.
 
I tried Win 10 on my new computer for 4 days.  And then I converted back to 8.1.
 
Everything worked perfectly on Win 10 except, and it is a big exception...
 
I had read extensively on all the options that you had while installing 10.  I understood all the privacy concerns and used win 10 "options" to disable every monitoring  feature they built into it to destroy privacy and information gathering.  And it ran perfectly except. ...
 
All websites that required that a "password" to be entered now balked or would not run at all.  When everything else worked perfectly with monitoring was disabled, the program stopped me from logging onto these secure sites if it couldn't monitor my password.  There might be a casual answer to that.  But to me, it destoyed all my confidence in MS and it's denial that it would never disrupt our personal privacy concerns. 
 
The only thing that would not work with all the options that monitor you disabled.  Access to the password. 
They wanted it and I would not allow it.
 
I am back on 8.1.  And I am going to buy a new computer and install Win 7 pro so I know it will last a long time in the future.
 
MS can shove it (and to think I was a beta tester back on Win 1).

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