me me meAnyone running a Windows 10 desktop willing to join my readtheingredients beta?
https://www.askwoody.com/2016/windows-10-usage-falters-edge-goes-nowhere-at-all/October numbers are in, and they don’t bode well for Windows 10 or its browser.
The latest NetMarketShare numbers show:
Firefox was the big winner, remarkably, going from 9.19% to 11.14%.
- Windows 10 moved imperceptibly up from 22.53% in September to 22.59% in October
- Windows 7 also nudged higher, from 48.27% to 48.38%
- Edge went from 5.16% in September to 5.26% in October
- IE decreased from 25.48% in September to 23.13% in October
Over on the StatCounter side of the fence:
You can interpret the numbers any way you like – and keep in mind that both NetMarketshare and StatCounter measure usage massaged in specific ways. But the takeaway is clear: Win10 and Edge certainly aren’t ringing any chimes.
- Win10 slid up a tiny bit from 24.42% in September to 24.81% in October
- Win7 went from 39.4% to 38.97%
- Edge stayed flat from 3.01% in September to 3.06% in October
- IE lost a whole point from 10.73% to 9.73%
You just have to wonder how many Win10 machines were sold in October, and how that affects the usage number. If there were, say, 20 million Win10 machines sold in October, surely that would bump the Win10 share up a bit. Are there a lot of people reverting to Win 7 or 8.1 – or giving up on Windows entirely?
As I said above the site netmarketshare should not be used because of their past methodology , though looking at the (ahem) correction (cough) of the browsing data over the last few months, perhaps they've fixed it,
http://www.zdnet.com/article/net-ma...nter-whose-online-measurements-can-you-trust/For visits from desktop and portable PCs, the samples are very large for each company. Net Market Share says its reports are based on 40,000 websites worldwide, with 160 million unique visitors per month on desktop and mobile devices. StatCounter’s monthly totals for desktop and notebook PCs consist of 15 billion pageviews recorded at 3 million sites. (That number might sound large, but it’s actually a drop in the bucket, web-wise, given the most recent Netcraft estimate of more than 861 million websites worldwide.)
Net Market Share doesn’t break down its mobile dataset. StatCounter says that in June 2013 its mobile report was based on 2.6 billion pageviews. (Presumably subsequent months have seen similar traffic levels.)
Differences in sample size on a per-country basis have a big influence on usage reports. At StatCounter, for example, more than 26 percent of mobile views are from India, making it the most popular region in its mobile dataset. By contrast, only 7 percent of StatCounter's desktop pageviews come from India. Roughly 21.5 percent of mobile StatCounter's traffic is from the United States; on the desktop, the U.S. share for pageviews is a bit higher, at 24 percent.
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The crucial difference, as you’ll note if you read the methodologies carefully, is that Net Market Share attempts to measure daily unique users, while StatCounter measures total traffic. If you visit a single page in the Net Market Share network, you’re counted, and then your visits to any other page on any other site in the network are ignored for the rest of the day. Net Market Share weights the data by country, StatCounter doesn’t.
As a result, Net Market Share stats count every user equally, while StatCounter gives extra weight to heavy web users.
true but I disagree with the 'good approximation' part,Neither is correct but both give a good approximation based on what information you require.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/wind...taskbar-when-using-google-chrome-509960.shtmlAds in Windows 10 is quite a controversial topic, and we’ve seen many people accusing Microsoft of trying to promote apps (in most of the cases its own) by displaying nags here and there across the operating system.
And it looks like Redmond has found another way to annoy users, as popup ads are now displayed right on the Windows 10 taskbar as little popups that show up at random times.
Windows 10 Displaying Browser Ads in the Taskbar
share it, please.Anyone running a Windows 10 desktop willing to join my readtheingredients beta?
well, Windows 10 is fine for me overall, well over Windows 8 -my previous favourite OS- and Windows 7. Edge...on the other hand...the main advantage is that it shares my bookmarks with my phone and any other device running the Windows environment, but as a browser it still needs a few fixes.Windows 10 usage falters, Edge goes nowhere at all
Posted on November 1st, 2016 at 07:51
https://www.askwoody.com/2016/windows-10-usage-falters-edge-goes-nowhere-at-all/
They say they are working on a x86 phone with a CPU created by Intel. That could be a game changer for me, but I think they left the phone business, so I am not sure that rumour is even true.Certainly some people are giving up on Windows, moving to mobile platforms (including their tablets) for media consumption and browsing. For productivity this is less so but probably still happening, with stuff like Office becoming plenty capable.
Companies are just starting to get ready to move to Windows 10 though. We only just passed the one year mark for release of the business version which most IT staff would consider a minimum wait period before moving to a new Windows version.
Personally I hope Microsoft keep going at their Continuum and mobile platform - I just bought a Lumia 950 XL for 340 euro, and am getting a continuum dock for it tonight. Together with the new option to be able to project your phone to any Windows 10 machine and start using its monitor, mouse and keyboard, I think it's a very smart direction for the company to move to, and their next update will give resizeable windows even on the mobile version of 10. My wife could probably be completely satisfied for all her office and private needs with just this phone.
My first impressions of this phone which cost less than half of the iPhone 6 Plus I am currently using are very favorable so far.
I am also shocked that I can still see pixels at normal phone distance even above 500ppi. Lies!
They worked on it, but then Intel dropped Atom lineThey say they are working on a x86 phone with a CPU created by Intel. That could be a game changer for me, but I think they left the phone business, so I am not sure that rumour is even true.
Go to desktop-->secondary mouse button-->Personalise-->Start-->Occasionally show suggestions on Start-->Set it to Off.
share it, please.