Windows 10 ESU

AthlonXP1800 said:
www.windowslatest.com

No, Windows 7 isn’t gaining market share in 2025

No, Windows 7 is not gaining market share in 2025 despite the reports. A reporting error has inflated Windows 7 numbers, but they're false.
www.windowslatest.com www.windowslatest.com

Windows 7 not gained marketshare, it is false and it is reporting error.
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That's little more than a it could be this or that, i refuse to believe it, article.

It's not even as you've portrayed it as 'not' gaining market share, it's here's some reasons Statscounter maybe misleading.
 
A two month long reporting error? I'm not saying you're wrong but to be so definitive in your assessment when you don't have all the information seems more than a little rash.
 
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A two month long reporting error? I'm not saying you're wrong but to be so definitive in your assessment when you don't have all the information seems more than a little rash.
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If you look closer at the regional breakdowns you can see most of the Win 7 gain seems to be from Asia, where their data is also showing big inconsistent swings between all three over the past few months. If you look at China, Windows 8 suddenly gained 10% market share from nothing over the course of a month. So something is skewing how they capture this data in certain regions.
 
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Murphy said:
That's little more than a it could be this or that, i refuse to believe it, article.

It's not even as you've portrayed it as 'not' gaining market share, it's here's some reasons Statscounter maybe misleading.
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I believed the article.

Please read the article in full again.

In May 2024, StatCounter incorrectly reported that Google’s search engine share dropped to 77.52% from 86.94% in the previous month.
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The article published a screenshot of 2024 data showed StatCounter currently reviewing the search engine host data for April 2024 changed the figure back up to 87.07%.

I looked at 2024 data, surprised to found they made lots of corrections again days or months later.

gs.statcounter.com

Search Engine Host Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats

This graph shows the market share of search engine hosts worldwide based on over 5 billion monthly page views.
gs.statcounter.com gs.statcounter.com

In April 2024, Chrome had 87.07% share, StatCounter quiet corrected it once again to 84.16%. Also in March 2024, Chrome had 86.94% share and they later corrected it to 84.26%.

So yeah something is skewing how they capture this data.
 
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On the ESUs, I had 2 PCs running W10 still. These were Dell and HP workstations I'd repurposed for gaming for two of my kids, and I rarely use them directly. In both cases the Xeon CPUs, while still being quite adequate for the games they play, are not supported by W11. The ESU prompt wasn't appearing in updates but after doing a bit of reading on what will trigger the update prompt, I logged in on my own Microsoft account on each, set up automatic backups in OneDrive and ensured I'd logged in to the Microsoft account within Edge. Just logging in to Windows hadn't been enough.

That seemed to shift things into action and the ESU prompt appeared within days in settings-updates on each PC. Both PCs now good to continue until 13th October 2026 at no cost.

I'd been thinking about bypassing hardware requirements to force a W11 update on both, but in the end I'm happy with carrying on under the ESU programme for the time being.
 
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Only got my notification to update a few days ago and as a bonus I didn't have to pay for it. At least I have another year before needing to upgrade to a new PC.
 
got my paretns on to the extended support for another year but after that poof..
im not sure what im going to do with the win 10 hardware i got, i might convert to linux and have a play with them
 
Did my parents PC over the weekend. Took a few attempts for some reason. "Something went wrong". All sorted now though
 
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