catch22@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoMicrosoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square179linkfedilinkarrow-up1672arrow-down140file-text
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minus-squareTheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year ago“Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system a year ago” –Tom Warren. Jan 6, 2021. https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217052/microsoft-windows-7-109-million-pcs-usage-stats-analytics Maybe the landfill won’t be overstuffed as quickly as expected. See also “Monthly market share held by Windows operating system for desktop PCs worldwide from January 2017 to November 2023, by version” https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/ It’s a dwindling effect, not just instant abandonment.
“Windows 7 appears to still be running on at least 100 million machines, despite Microsoft ending support for the operating system a year ago”
–Tom Warren. Jan 6, 2021.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/6/22217052/microsoft-windows-7-109-million-pcs-usage-stats-analytics
Maybe the landfill won’t be overstuffed as quickly as expected.
See also
“Monthly market share held by Windows operating system for desktop PCs worldwide from January 2017 to November 2023, by version” https://www.statista.com/statistics/993868/worldwide-windows-operating-system-market-share/
It’s a dwindling effect, not just instant abandonment.