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~ 3 hours after release iOS7 adoption rate ~ 10% > 1 year after release Windoze 8 adoption rate ~ 7%
by Arnor 13y ago
~ 3 hours after release iOS7 adoption rate ~ 10%
> 1 year after release Windoze 8 adoption rate ~ 7%
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- Recoil42 13y agoWindows 8 is a paid update. Comparing the two is ludicrous.
- RobAtticus 13y agoPretty disingenuous comparison. One is a smartphone OS, the other is a desktop OS which makes up the majority of enterprise systems.
- alayne 13y agoI read stats somewhere that Windows 7 is less than half of all Windows installs. XP is still very common.
- fancyketchup 13y agoWindows XP checking in, and I know of at least one other lab still using 2000 (for, IIRC, a thermogravimetric analysis machine). The problem is drivers: Lots of very spendy equipment (test, measurement, fabrication, etc) needs a host PC to run, and often needs a specific OS version because the manufacturer decided to EOL the product. It is not unusual for a $50 OS upgrade to necessitate hundreds of thousands of dollars of software and hardware upgrades. So we just don't upgrade the OS.
- RobAtticus 13y agoLooks like XP is the 2nd most common variant of Windows according to this page on Wikipedia[1]. I'm sure there are ways to criticize/pick apart the different sampling techniques used, but none have XP above 7 anymore. Certainly not a non-trivial amount of XP machines out there though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_usage_share https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system_usage_share
- chrisbolt 13y agoOne is free, and one isn't.
- robododo 13y agoif post.containsOneOf({"windoze", "M$", "winblows"} return TrolLOL