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

[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!