Is Windows 7 still popular these days?

[YTBOY83]

Like the title says.

I would like to know what SevenForums users think.

 

[Megahertz07]

Windows has more users than all other
Operating system market share

 

[ChuckRJr]

Windows 7 Professional 64bit. I have been satisfied until the ROLLUPS stopped installing. I find the security portion and install it successfully.

 

[johnhoh]

summary of market share link in post #2

Win7 48%
Win10 25%
WinXP 8%
Win8.1 7%
MacOSv10.12 3%
Linux 2%
Win8.0 2%
MacOSv10.11 1%
MacOSv10.10 1%
WinVista 1%​

 

[Layback Bear]

What I can't find is the sales of W-10.
I believe that the % number of W-10 also includes the giveaways.

Jack

 

[Melchior]

I love windows 7, its the last good Windows OS Microsoft wrote, as I cannot stand the new Metro GUI in Win8+
WINDOWS 7 FOREVER!!!! ^_^ lol

 

[YTBOY83]

Windows 7 is my favourite Microsoft OS. It is awesome.

 

[RoWin7]

Windows has more users than all other
Operating system market share

Is that just in the US or worldwide?

 

[ThrashZone]

What I can't find is the sales of W-10.
I believe that the % number of W-10 also includes the giveaways.

Jack

Hi,
About all I've seen,
Some up a tad some down though I did notice Apple is up too if I remember Apple was always closer to Linux users number
7 rules in my book

 

[RoWin7]

Hi,
About all I've seen,
Some up a tad some down though I did notice Apple is up too if I remember Apple was always closer to Linux users number
7 rules in my book
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I don't see how they can calculate Win 10 giveaways. Suppose I blocked those updates, which I did. How can they figure who accepted it and who blocked it if we didn't buy it?

 

[RoWin7]

Windows 7 is my favorite Micosoft OS. It is awesome.

Not mine. The filing system's a mess. Folders that don't really exist containing files that don't exist. Junction points with folders within folders like a Hall of Mirrors. Links that point to themselves. You get permission to install a setup file, then you're told the decompressed files don't have permission to open. I'm wondering about how the average user who doesn't go to forums for help can install and run their programs. Or maybe they just use whatever programs came with the computer.

 

[margrave]

What does "popular" mean?
Depending on the interpretation, it could fairly be said that Windows 3.1 is still popular.

So ... yes, Win 7 is popular.

 

[Melchior]

lol... RoWin7 I modify the system permissions(program files, and some of the files and OS folders) to suit my taste and have never had any issues

 

[Alejandro85]

I don't see how they can calculate Win 10 giveaways. Suppose I blocked those updates, which I did. How can they figure who accepted it and who blocked it if we didn't buy it?

They can't.
IF you look at their methodology stated in their website, they measure usage based on hits on a particular web page, then getting the OS out of the user agent of the browser. Market share is then extrapolated and estimated from those amounts.
Of course that yields an approximated estimate at most, but has several drawbacks.

OSs are counted just by the looking at the user agent declared by the browser, which says nothing about the origin of the installation. Purchased copies, OS that came bundled with the hardware, downgraded from 7/8 though the GWX malware, pirated copies, virtual machines, spoofed user agents, all count the same and the website has no way of telling them apart.
It's important to know that those sites don't tell "market share", but instead actual OS usage, no matter where the OS came from.

 

[Layback Bear]

Only Microsoft has the number for sales compared to give away copies of W-10.
A true sales figure of W-10 I don't believe will be coming soon.

Jack

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Only Microsoft has the number for sales compared to give away copies of W-10.
A true sales figure of W-10 I don't believe will be coming soon.

Jack

If ever. And, considering all the stunts and lying MS has been doing lately, I wouldn't trust any figures they would provide.

 

[Melchior]

If ever. And, considering all the stunts and lying MS has been doing lately, I wouldn't trust any figures they would provide.

yup lol...

according to https://news.microsoft.com/bythenumbers/
they say 400 Million devices are running Windows 10... YEAH RIGHT!

 

[corvet786c]

Yes it is the best windows ever, Thank Goodness I bought the wind 7 32 and 64 bit operating sys back in 2009, so I can always install clean again.

 

[TDKMate]

Running Win 7 Pro 64. It's my favorite. I have no plans to go to Win 10 at all.

 

[jacky99]

Hmm, I've tried installing Win10, it's a very worst eating much space on my harddisk..
Win10 consume disk space very very greedy.. its worst‼ Then I downgrade back to Win7 x64..very comfortable