Windows 10 adoption rate increases to 70%

[thewayne]

Meanwhile Windows 11 adoption rate DECLINES to below the 26% mark after hitting a high of just over 28%.

I'm running 11 Pro on my desktop at home. But given the choice, I prefer 10. I can't go back to it, don't have the media. And it's about to go to paid-for support, which I don't want to mess with. I have not yet found any feature in 11 that benefits me, in fact I had to find a workaround to move the task bar to the vertical left side of the screen, where I prefer it.

I really hate it when they eliminate features that people like.

https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

Comments

[murakozi]

I have a computer that I still need to finish building. I really don't want to have to use 11 on it, but it's not like I'm going to find a copy of 10 to install on it. :(

[thewayne]

You can find copies of 10 that can be activated, but if you're building a new box, it becomes increasingly iffy about things like video drivers if you're going latest and greatest.

[warriorsavant]

It seems very rare that upgrades actually make things work better.

[thewayne]

Originally Microsoft said that Windows 10 would be "the last edition" of Windows that would ever be released.  I scoffed at that, like when Google announced that their corporate motto was 'Don't be evil'.  Well, for Microsoft, that promise lasted six years.  10 was released to the public for sale in '15, 11 in '21.  Which means we may be half-way through 11's life and can expect W12 in three years?  As it seems like every other edition of Windows seems to be pretty good, maybe 12 will be pretty good.  That's not to say that 11 is bad, it's just not a significant improvement over 10, IMHO.

[bibliofile]

MS apparently announced support for Windows 10 until October, 2025.

Today, my computer told me it needed to restart to update to Windows 11. NO, DO NOT WANT! I have paused updates for the maximum amount of time (35 days); with luck I'll find another, longer lasting solution until then.

Ugh.

[thewayne]

I accidentally hit the 'Install Win 11' button on my Win 10 machine at work.  There is a directory you can delete that holds the installation package that will clear everything out, but you had to wait for the whole thing to download before clearing it.  As I recall, it was the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\download directory that you needed to clear out, whole bunch of directories under there - wipe 'em all.  That'll hopefully take care of it for you.  I would have preferred my current PC to be 10, but it could only ship with 11.

[devilc]

Windows 11 really pissed the bed and broke a lot of things that didn't need to be fixed.

I'd go back to 10 in a heartbeat if I could at work. At home I'm keeping my dual-boot W10 machines going as long as I can.

[elf]

I bypassed Windows 8 entirely - got 7 (as late as I could; XP was long out of its support range), stuck with 7 as long as I could, switched to 10 and grumbled over what I'd lost but eventually got used to it.

I am hoping to bypass 11 entirely and just wait for 12 to be stable. But I don't know if I'll have that option at work. (Work, however, does not seem eager to update to 11.)

I want XP's file search back.

I have Agent Ransack instead, and it's great. But it'd be nice to have something built into the OS. Or for, y'know, the support pages to actually list all the available search options.

[thewayne]

Agent Ransack sounds interesting, I'll have to look into it - a good search tool would be very nice.  I still think about the old Dos Norton Utilities before he sold out to Symantec.  I use Power Tools and ExplorerPatcher to move my task bar.  They update EP probably once or twice a month, basically whenever MS does a major patch to W11.

[darkoshi]

I was reading today about an upcoming Windows 11 change that breaks Explorer Patcher's ability to let you use the Windows 10 taskbar on Windows 11. If I understand right, that means we won't be able to move the taskbar to the side of the screen or resize it. Until I figure out what to do, I have used the "Pause" feature on the Windows update page, and won't be updating EP.

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/tag/22621.3527.65.2_c245b8f
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/issues/3053

It sounds like Microsoft did this on purpose, not for any good reason:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-really-doesnt-want-you-to-use-the-windows-10-taskbar-on-windows-11/ar-AA1kNUf5

I use EP with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker. I also have Start11, but the last time I checked, it still doesn't support what 7TT does, to allow multiple taskbar buttons of the same program not to be grouped/locked together.

Agent Ransack (aka File Locator Light) is very good. I have the Pro version (File Locator Pro) and use it extensively for work. One neat feature is being able to do Boolean searches including a "NEAR" operator. For example, "(red OR blue) NEAR hat"

[thewayne]

Oh, lovely.  MS has been saying that 'future updates' would allow relocating the task bar, but I haven't seen it yet.  Just like they were saying that a controller for colored fans would be integrated 'soon'.

Wow, a NEAR function!  That's pretty cool!

[viridian5]

I still haven't "upgraded" my notebook computer to 11 from Windows 10.

I don't know if the Photos program is broken on 11 too, but they really crapped the bed on their recent "improvements" to it in 10. It's almost useless now. I don't trust their upgrades.

[thewayne]

They're infamous for doing crap like that.  I never cared for their photos programs, but I mostly do stuff like that on my Macs.

[viridian5]

Fortunately for me, I found another way to transfer my photos from my iPhone to my computer aside from using Photos, because these days Photos only lets me do that 1 time out of maybe 20 attempts. Great going, Microsoft. They screwed this up about six months ago, got a ton of complaints, and still haven't fixed it. (At least for Windows 10, I don't know if they fixed it for 11.)

[disneydream06]

More advances that nobody wants, huh? :o :o :o
Hugs, Jon