Windows 10 Adoption Already Slowing Down

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  1. Posts : 92
    Windows 10
       #30

    Remember that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he'd consider it a success if they had around 1 Billion Windows 10 devices in three years.

    Three

    Years

    And that will include a lot of new devices being purchased.

    So they aren't worried about the small spikes and downturns just a couple of weeks into the process I suspect.

    http://www.franchiseherald.com/articles/33648/20150730/microsoft-launches-windows-10-promised-1-billion-users-in-3-years-to-shareholders.htm
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  2. Posts : 1,937
    win 10 Insider
       #31

    Love the perspective that Antilope's clip gives. Shows human nature and the demand curve doesn't change much over time!

    This exercise shows up three main personality types where change is concerned. There are those who want to jump on board a new product and work like beavers to get it right, there are those who may try it but look for any excuse to justify their original predisposition to stay where they are, and there are those who just won't try anything new unless forced.

    As a long time Insider I must be in the first group!

    But businesses are in a different position from individuals. It is a HUGE scary decision to move from a well running OS to a new one. Mass moves for business uptake will take time. Probably a lot of time, especially as they don't get a freebie in the first year.

    While I am an 'early adopter', I hesitated when a person in a small organisation I do support work for asked about this Win 10 prompt she was getting and whether she should go with it. This organisation only has five computers but, nevertheless, they don't need any work disruption, especially as my aim would be to have win 10 look and work just like their win 7 and 8.

    So, risk versus questionable immediate gain. I am still thinking about this one!

    Cheers, all, and whichever OS we want to use, good luck.
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  3. Posts : 353
    Windows 10 Pro
       #32

    PRMan said:
    While I haven't seen anyone turn back after installing it. Over 20 machines and everybody kept it. And anyone that had 8 is definitely not going back, but some people with 7 considered it.
    That's interesting isn't it, I suspect 8.1 to 10 is a more natural curve, even a welcome change than 7 to 10.
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  4. Posts : 1,264
    Windows 10 (19045.3154)
       #33

    I have gone back to Win 8.1 because it works better than Win10 better luck next time.
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  5. Posts : 117
    Windows 10
       #34

    Woz said:
    All the early adopters are done. At least, that would be my guess as to the high adoption rates early on. I know several people running 7 or 8.1 who did the whole "Get Windows 10" bit on their PCs, but they have not received their upgrade yet. Probably non-qualified drivers holding back some of these upgrades.
    I did the whole reserve windows 10 on my laptop (Hell, it prompted me to do it, I didn't instigate the request) and it's still not told me it's time to upgrade yet. I imagine there are plenty out there that are still sitting on the sidelines waiting on Microsoft to give them the go ahead.

    Personally I'm fine not doing it to the laptop, as I want to have something under my full control (i.e. not forcing updates on me) but the good part was that it made me update my desktop with some KB updates that were preventing it from asking me if I wanted to reserve a copy for the desktop.

    Oh and my partners Win 8.1 laptop... Same situation, it prompted him to reserve his copy of 10 and he did but he's still not been notified to upgrade and like me he's not in any hurry to really do it to his laptop now that his desktop is upgraded to 10.
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  6. Posts : 147
    Windows 10 x64
       #35

    We were looking to start deployment where I work in January 2016, but we've put the brakes on that for now.

    There is so much more wrong with Windows 10 than we had anticipated.

    There are numerous potential privacy issues, and we have compliance issues to deal with.

    There are numerous bugs, especially in the Modern apps.

    There is severe instability with the Start menu.

    The way Windows 10 can be imaged is poor, at best. Why can Modern apps not be opened and customized in Audit Mode and copied to the default profile? Why are the settings for Modern apps inside accounts created before Sysprep wiped out upon Sysprep being run? Why can't built-in Modern apps be updated before deployment?

    I have to say, we're really disappointed at this point. Could that change? Sure. But Microsoft has got to start thinking of enterprise and they are going to lose them. I really wonder if Microsoft gets it, anymore.
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  7. Posts : 1,249
    Windows 8.1, Win10Pro
       #36

    Traijan said:
    I did the whole reserve windows 10 on my laptop (Hell, it prompted me to do it, I didn't instigate the request) and it's still not told me it's time to upgrade yet. I imagine there are plenty out there that are still sitting on the sidelines waiting on Microsoft to give them the go ahead.
    You're lucky! I DID get the notification and made the mistake trying to do the Win10 Upgrade. You would think that since the Win10 Compatibility Checker gave me a clean bill of health for the upgrade (NO hardware problems, NO software problems) that the upgrade would have been a success. But no -- it trashed my laptop, leaving it in an unusable state! I had to buy Recovery Media from HP for it and completely rebuild it to get it back working. And the HP Support forums are full of such threads of other folks having similar serious problems. So -- don't be in a hurry to upgrade.
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  8. Posts : 15,010
    Windows 10 IoT
       #37

    jfreemont said:
    We were looking to start deployment where I work in January 2016, but we've put the brakes on that for now.

    There is so much more wrong with Windows 10 than we had anticipated.

    There are numerous potential privacy issues, and we have compliance issues to deal with.

    There are numerous bugs, especially in the Modern apps.

    There is severe instability with the Start menu.

    The way Windows 10 can be imaged is poor, at best. Why can Modern apps not be opened and customized in Audit Mode and copied to the default profile? Why are the settings for Modern apps inside accounts created before Sysprep wiped out upon Sysprep being run? Why can't built-in Modern apps be updated before deployment?

    I have to say, we're really disappointed at this point. Could that change? Sure. But Microsoft has got to start thinking of enterprise and they are going to lose them. I really wonder if Microsoft gets it, anymore.
    I'm guessing your Modern Apps issues are because Modern Apps, including settings, are tied to your Microsoft Account. Likely a per user type of deal.
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  9. Posts : 147
    Windows 10 x64
       #38

    alphanumeric said:
    I'm guessing your Modern Apps issues are because Modern Apps, including settings, are tied to your Microsoft Account. Likely a per user type of deal.
    It happens even when using a local user account or a domain user account.

    In any case, ideally when you're in Audit Mode, you would be able to open the Modern apps and customize their settings and -- when you run Sysprep generalization with CopyProfile set -- it would copy those settings to the default profile.

    And if you're in Audit Mode, it would let you update the built-in Modern apps and -- when running Sysprep generalization with CopyProfile set -- it would automatically stage any apps installed in the Administrator for all new users so that new users automatically get those updated apps upon logging in the first time.

    And if you create a user account before Sysprep generalization is run, it should just leave those settings and apps alone in that account -- period. I have no clue whatsoever why Sysprep messes with accounts that have already been created.
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  10. Posts : 117
    Windows 10
       #39

    Mark Phelps said:
    You're lucky! I DID get the notification and made the mistake trying to do the Win10 Upgrade. You would think that since the Win10 Compatibility Checker gave me a clean bill of health for the upgrade (NO hardware problems, NO software problems) that the upgrade would have been a success. But no -- it trashed my laptop, leaving it in an unusable state! I had to buy Recovery Media from HP for it and completely rebuild it to get it back working. And the HP Support forums are full of such threads of other folks having similar serious problems. So -- don't be in a hurry to upgrade.
    Well stories like that to laptop users, and stories of the laptop tracpads and the wifi being inop upon upgrading was certainly some of the things that have kept us from upgrading our laptops.

    The company I work for (which is rather smaller side at only 1300 employees) when I talked to one of the I.T. guys he said they're not even considering upgrading to 10 and probably won't for another year or two, they tell me it simply doesn't need to be done at this point when 7 is working fine for them.
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