Market share shock: Is Windows 10 actually gaining ground over Windows 11?

[AJ North]

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[Shirley Dulcey]

Summer probably also causes some fluctuation. Students and teachers are not using their school computers. People go on vacation and dig out a laptop for that rather than using their primary computer, or use somebody else's computer while traveling.

 

[LimyG]

That's due to sampling errors and not adjusting for it. As a statistician I've been harping on that but people don't seem to understand how survey sampling works and just take things as truth.

Well I for one believe you, and wouldn't argue with a statistician.
Genuine question: Most people know the Steam stats are exactly as you said, and certainly not reliable. They represent the people who participated.

The stat quoted in this much larger survey though, are, I would imagine more accurate than the Steam ones. No doubt as you said there are always sampling errors, but I am very curious.

Roughly do you think this threads stats from StatCounter are close? Or rather what percentage of error, either way, do you think would be a reasonable way to interprete the results?

 

[LimyG]

How about an article that digs into why Microsoft is pushing OS changes and features that seem to anger large parts of the customers, and why MS doesn't seem to care?

How about an article about why Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to more fully separate the graphic look and feel of the GUI from the OS? This seems like an obvious thing to do.
I don't give a squat about the degtails of the underlying code. I only care about how I interact with the thing, and that's the GUI and an occasional powershell or command line. Why is it that the old control panel is still there, but we get pushed the new control panel? Why is it that Windows 11 keep changing, making it hard to find anything? Why is it that Windows seems to offer 2 or more screen capture apps and 3 or 4 diffeent photo/image editing apps all with randomly overlapping features? Where is the consistency? Where is the in depth study of the OneDrive EULA regarding MS slurping up those users' data for its AI?

Well said!