and 10 months of support for a PC/Laptop which is being sold right now (like Dell Mini PC 6th-gen model). So is it? Why they were still selling OEM licenses to manufactures for W10 if it was going soon to expire?
That would be reasonable. What's not reasonable is claiming that millions of perfectly good computers that still perform great must be thrown out and replaced.
That's flat out not ok, end of conversation. This is not the 90s where a computer was obsolete in 6 months anymore.
Apple also deprecates hardware with new OS versions, but they don't do it to millions simultaneously. Additionally, they don't turn their entire previous OS into nagware about upgrading every time they release a new version.
None of these link to a real source, and don't show how they collected the data.
Steam's statistics (https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/), for example, are pulled straight from their app, and are updated every month. According to that Win 11 is at 55% vs Win 10's 42%.
What? The Register, PC World, and Tech Spot aren't "real sources"?
>Steam's statistics
Show the percentage of market share for people who game. Not total market share.
Habits of gamers are very different than corporate. Gamers are a relatively small percentage of all Windows installs. There are millions and millions of machines in corporate, institutional, and government sectors that run Windows but don't run Steam.
They are blogs. If you read the articles you will see that they all point to the same statcounter link as their source. And the statcounter page gives zero info on what source they used.
>In other words we calculate our Global Stats on the basis of more than 5 billion page views per month, by people from all over the world onto our 1.5 million+ member sites.
Not sure why visitors to a bunch of sites that have installed the "statcounter" tracker would be considered more representative than everyone who has installed steam.
Because visitors to those sites include corporate and government users -- the majority of windows installations. Corporate and government computers don't have Steam installed.
Those website stats also include home users, people with Steam, etc. It's a way bigger sample across all sectors, including the sector that Steam measures.
However, Steam stats only measure windows installations of people who play Steam games (i.e. not corporate and certainly not government computers, and probably missing a large chunk of home installs). That is a much less representative sample of windows installations.
