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      I mean, I’m a little worried. Windows 7 and 10 not getting security updates is not great for, well, security. Seeing them rise is a little disconcerting unless they’re corporate machines and paying for the extra security updates.

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    It’s almost like people don’t want a buggy operating system that shoves AI down your throat every chance it gets.

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      I could tolerate a buggy operating system that shoves AI down my throat. It’s the intrusive adware, bloated telemetrics, lockdown to cloud accounts and other wildly insecure practices by Microsoft (like screen recording, sharing my data with all law enforcement, rolling out untested updates) that ALL have me avoiding Win11 like the plague.

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        It’s really incredible how much Microsoft is dropping the ball. All this nonsense, and they still haven’t transitioned to UWP, or even ported all the control panel through like 4 versions of Windows.

        It makes Windows 8, and even Vista, look so put together.

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    So the market share for Win 11 was 30% in June last year, then 48% in June this year and then 51% in July. According to this article Statcounter reckon it’s dropped to 49.08% in August. “Slips worryingly”? Hmm…

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    I assumed this was because iOS/Android are disproportionately eating Windows 11 market share… But at least according to the source, this isn’t true: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

    Windows share is going up.

    …Hence, absolute Windows 10 volume is going up too.

    Honestly I don’t know how this is possible unless their data is faulty. ‘Normal’ people don’t know how to switch operating systems. Where are they even getting Windows 10 from?

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      They take it to the shop and tell them to take that piece of shit win11 out of their computer and put an ever so slightly less crappy win10/7 in its place, I guess?

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        Mmmmm, I’m not sure a totally buy that. That’s a lot of trouble for someone to go to, and it involves wiping the PC.

        I’m chalking this up to questionable data, especially with that really steep Android drop in a single month.

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    Seems like a sus headline but if true, people would rather run Windows 7 than a current Linux distro? WTF