Windows 10 Now on 75 Million Devices
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Windows 7 offered 3 for 1 licenses (for home use) early on. Windows 8 offered $40 upgrades. Most new Windows introductions offer deep discounts as part of the introduction. Windows 10 is hardly different with the 1 year free upgrade offer.
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Windows 7 offered 3 for 1 licenses (for home use) early on. Windows 8 offered $40 upgrades. Most new Windows introductions offer deep discounts as part of the introduction. Windows 10 is hardly different with the 1 year free upgrade offer.
Ultimately all this is moot. Windows 10 will overtake all of the previous versions simply because there will be no Windows 11.
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Windows 7 offered 3 for 1 licenses (for home use) early on. Windows 8 offered $40 upgrades. Most new Windows introductions offer deep discounts as part of the introduction. Windows 10 is hardly different with the 1 year free upgrade offer.
"Hardly" in this case means 40 bucks !
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"Hardly" in this case means 40 bucks !
So what's your point? Do you think Windows 10 is going to fail or are your just arguing to be arguing? It has already matched or exceeded other FREE operating systems (Apple and Ubuntu) after 1 month. Now it only has to compete against Windows. ALL new Windows hardware will come with Windows 10, not 7, not 8.1, not XP, not Vista. Windows 10.
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I would have to say that some of the facts quoted on the links seem a little dubious
This from the apple one is an example ...
"The last two years alone the number of users of OS X has tripled in five years"
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So what's your point. Do you think Windows 10 is going to fail or are your just arguing to be arguing?
No, I don't think it's going to fail, au contraire but a lot of people are upgrading just because it's free, coupled with possibility to return to previous system if not satisfied, without loosing either license, makes it practically risk free. MS has pulled a great move like that and it's paying off. I have nothing against it, that's for sure.
What I would like to see is number of retail licenses sold. That would be right measure of things.
I was pretty satisfied with W7 and even more with W8/8.1 and if it wasn't for insiders edition, I would be still running beta version like I did with most other windows before. I even had an early version of W8 and followed it thru all the way to last 8.1 (which I still have in dual boot). I took the offer to buy W8 upgrade for I think $37 but we have a regional MS office here and was able to pay in local currency, otherwise it would be more complicated.
Keep in mind that it's not as easy in many places in the world to make a distance payment over internet or otherwise.
It also wouldn't be great surprise if OEM licenses outstrip retail by a large margin.
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No, I don't think it's going to fail, au contraire but a lot of people are upgrading just because it's free, coupled with possibility to return to previous system if not satisfied, without loosing either license, makes it practically risk free. MS has pulled a great move like that and it's paying off. I have nothing against it, that's for sure.
What I would like to see is number of retail licenses sold. That would be right measure of things.
I was pretty satisfied with W7 and even more with W8/8.1 and if it wasn't for insiders edition, I would be still running beta version like I did with most other windows before. I even had an early version of W8 and followed it thru all the way to last 8.1 (which I still have in dual boot). I took the offer to buy W8 upgrade for I think $37 but we have a regional MS office here and was able to pay in local currency, otherwise it would be more complicated.
Keep in mind that it's not as easy in many places in the world to make a distance payment over internet or otherwise.
It also wouldn't be great surprise if OEM licenses outstrip retail by a large margin.
The usual ratio of OEM to retail is 19 to 1. It should be even higher over the next 11 months because of the giveaway since the giveaways are displacing almost all the retail sales. (It is probably meaningless, but the GWX licenses are FPP without a key.)
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As for me, I LOVE the W10 upgrade.
I've done two installs (this very laptop and one in our family) and the performance increase alone is amazing to me. I am on a 2GB Dell laptop right now, and the upgrade means I am no longer considering a memory upgrade like I was with W7. This feels like a new computer after the upgrade.
I realize I'm just one of 75 million, but if I were one of 75, I'd feel the same way.
Lucky you , i only heard a couple people say that , most of what i have read from people say it's very hard to tell a difference .
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I wasn't asking about that. I was asking about his statement that people were just checking out W10 and deciding whether to keep it or not.
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