OF, if 110 million computers have now gone to Win 10, do you have any idea of what percentage of the worlds computers 110 million is?


https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=...

As of October 2014, there were nearly 2 billion personal computers used worldwide.   The 2015 number number has actually declined some since then as no one is buying replacement PCs like they used to ......

So, using your 110 million figure, Microsoft has only converted roughly 5% of the total population of computers to Windows 10.  It must be noted that the conversion process is slowing greatly over the last two months as computer owners take action to STOP MS from converting them against their wishes.

Of the 5% that have converted, roughly 40% of the converted are having some sort of driver or other sort of nagging issues that have not been fixed at this point in time.

If MS had good intentions and was acting honorably about this process and had a good & complete product, there would be no push back.

But they aren't acting honorably, and have tried to hide the high levels of issues being seen by the recently converted in order to keep the process going on schedule.  

So many issues have been hidden and so much false information put forward concerning the 3 sets of accidental conversions or all the "buggy" updates, etc. --- so much so that the user push back level is increasing month by month accordingly.

Why would MS do this?   If your product, such as your Win 10 phones, are noticeably incomplete or buggy, then you HAVE to hide this from your users or they won't willingly convert.

And, if they don't willingly convert so you can control them and "totally own them" then you have no ongoing future pathway except subterfuge if your name is Microsoft.   You know you cannot compete fairly as your product is not that good and the eventual real cost of it is actually very high.  

So you promise all sorts of glowing new features and abilities and hope enough rubes buy your spiel and take your "free upgrade" before it becomes obvious the new stuff isn't all that great, or else some of it simply isn't coming at all, ever.    

Examples of such oversold BS could be the "advantages of the Edge browser" and "Win 10 Mobile with Continuum for all existing Windows phones" == stuff that either isn't nearly right yet or else simply ain't EVER going to happen.

So you give Win 10 away for free for a short period of time (promising weekly that all sorts of fixes will be here soon) and LOCK those consumers in by removing their choices completely and controlling them completely.

Knowledgeable consumers would never willingly pick your buggy partially complete product, so keep them in the dark as much as possible and take all elements of control away from them as quickly as you possibly can.

Right now, by removing the DVD ISO install pathway using your old license key Microsoft has once again put consumers BACK UNDER THEIR TOTAL NIGHTLY CONTROL AGAIN.  

Microsoft will begin doing the unwilling automatic conversions of the lazy and the unknowing starting early in 2016.   And still all the fixes promised for the November big release have not materialized, with only 60% of the promised fixes even being given a partial "lick and a promise".

That is like starting 6 weeks from now ......

Now what is scary is that the latest big November upgrade is being rolled back now, and nobody knows why.

Makes it sorta hard to "trust us", huh?


   

I wonder what would happen to the global economy, if say 1 billion didn't "upgrade", or found a way of stopping the "shovelware", or whatever you techies call it, and the MS share price took a significant hit, or even collapsed.

Some local courts are considering pushing class actions that would have MS send out brand new Win 7 and Win 8.1 DVD's to the complainants along with brand new unencumbered license keys  ---  why? ---  because MS substantially misrepresented Windows 10's progress (state of completion) in order to get the users to switch over and then MS locked them out of being able to reload their old software after 30 days -- illegally -- according to their existing licenses.

I find it fascinating that MS's original talking head boy, ol' flippy hair boy, is out of the country for a whole year right about now .... he is unavailable for any direct testimony.

If this goes very far, or becomes very widespread, then it may be game over for MS as their future pathway DEPENDS on locking you into Win 10 as a powerless dependent.   Having the courts say you are not powerless kinda undercuts MS's game plan.

And I wonder how many of the 130 million would go back at this stage, knowing what they now know.   Certainly a chunk of the 38-40% who are still having nagging driver issues would go back -- in heart beat -- if they could.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-ideapad-100s-11-6-laptop-intel-atom-2gb-me...



I mentioned Lenovo was in a money crunch and was going to be dumping some inventory, right?

Best Buy will sell you an "open box" unit for $116 with Office 365 for a year.  That is cheap, huh, and Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still to come.

For $5 Raspberry Pi Zero is getting reviewed as being 3x faster than the original Pi and 7 time cheaper.   Has fewer I/O ports though, but it runs ALL the original Pi software family, Raspian, etc. using the ports it does have.   Trick is to buy a USB hub that supports the thing, they have several identified that work OK now.

Yep, Raspberry Pi is getting better, has better throughput (faster, stronger) AND is getting cheaper, but it still supports its distributors and software sub-vendors with a small profit margin.   It isn't much, but the folks still like it well enough to write for it.

Nobody in Pi space is greedy, indeed some of them simply accept "donations to the cause" as that actually gets them more money quicker as they get ready to make a new revision available.


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http://makezine.com/2015/11/28/chip-vs-pi-zero/

C.H.I.P. (black one on the right) is a $9 one up on the Pi Zero that has the maker crowd in a buzz -- based on a cheap Allwinner phone chip it has all the built in stuff that you have to buy then hook up to get a Pi running completely to suit you.


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Microsoft and Intel have nothing -- all their attempts at this hobby space flopped miserably.

All Intel has is a $100 hobby board.   And its uses Android, not MS anything to run.

MS still hasn't built a successful Win 10 phone yet, much less a hobby board.   MS seems to be content to survive off of Big Business right now and until that changes, you will have MS to support your Big Box PC stuff with the nightly update churn nonsense.   Nothing else.

MS is trying to get ALL their PCs gathered under one roof without pissing anybody off mortally, and it's HARD for them to do that.   The programmers are given goals of things to do with each level, and when they go do them and they SHOW UP in the nightlies and do what they are intended to do, well then the Europeans have kittens about it and MS gets caught doing more "legally actionable" strange stuff and has to back track again.

Next year it is all going to hit a wall when MS claims that the Win 7/8.1 to Win 10 roll over is NOW REQUIRED to keep your computer secure and you MUST kill off all your old software and drivers and only use the approved MS stuff that they just sent to you last night as part of your required upgrade path.   And you will have to buy whatever MS tells you to buy for Office, etc. etc. going forward.

If you have not ever clicked to accept the Win 10 EULA ever, then doing this to you is illegal and actionable.

Then the court case goes before the EU -- and we see what we shall see.

I hope it happens, goes to trial and gets all shaken out before we hit the one year update deadline.

Best case, the EU constricts and limits MS in certain ways that keep computing free and competitive.   Worst case, MS takes over the PC world autocratically and you get NO CHOICE going forward.   MS just owns you.

Then, in late 2016 Google finally uncorks a full span general purpose OS and then MS and Google go through competitive improvement cycles one-upping each other from then on forward.    This assumes the Alphabet boys don't get distracted by something else, say a rigged up lawsuit or two on some other issue ..... it's not like MS hasn't done that to them lately, now is it?

Microsoft will be suffering from a lack of drivers still, and Google will have a strong advantage as they certify all hardware like Apple does and Google simply doesn't have that bad driver issue to deal with.

Believe it or not, Apple has lost more Macs lately to the current somewhat lame competition between Google and MS than MS has PCs.   iOS and MacOS still are separate, but are edging closer all the time.

Google is still picking up all the loose market share, except when Lenovo is dumping Windows 10 laptops below their mgf cost like they are currently doing.   Then MS gains some share as something running Win 10 is "right priced" finally.

Lenovo has no choice, however, their last year's Win 8.1 inventory stock MUST move out to free up vital cash to keep them in business for 2016.   The processors in these "dumpees" are starting to get stale and soon enough will be seen as "obsolete" -- the time to convert them all to Win 10 and dump them on the marketplace is NOW when MS is still screwed up enough to take all the blame for the sorry unit performance.

http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-10-mobile-news-recap-market-share-goes-up...

I have stated that MS is pushing out a GREAT DEAL of very misleading information.   Let's talk some about the latest "news flash" from MS.

"We learned this past week that Windows 10 Mobile usage as increased to 7 percent, compared to 5.7 percent the previous month. The number will likely increase when more people get their pre-ordered Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XLs. The new operating system is also set to hit existing devices in the coming months in phases to selected devices."

First thought is "Where did they get these numbers?   MS had 3% market share at peak counting all Win Phone varieties, and that has just recently dropped down to 1.7% market share as their fan base abandons them -- where did they get these  5.7% and 7% growth numbers? "

The answer is quite simple, to Microsoft the world of phone ONLY contains Windows phones.   This tiny 1.7% market share (and shrinking) pie is split up into various Windows phone segments by Microsoft for analysis.

What they are really saying as the fans leave the sinking ship, abandoning all the Win Phones fairly evenly, but more especially the ones that MS has also co-abandoned, the shrinking pie has changed shape --- and the Win 10 phone segment of the shrinking pie has grown from 5.7% of a 3% market share pie to a whopping 7% of a 1.7% market share pie.   But hey, is this really growth at all ??????

.057x.03 = 0.00171 of total real market share                    .07x.017 = 0.00119 of total real market share

                1-(0.00119/0.00171) = 30% decline in real unit count vs real total market share            

In other words, the Win 10 phone pie slice shrank drastically, but compared to the even faster shrinking Win Phone market share pie they can claim the Win 10 slice "grew" 1.3%  relative to the even smaller and smaller size of the ever shrinking Win Phone round pie.      

..... Please remember, the Win Phone total pie can shrink simply because Android and Apple total pies GREW that much in the same time period.

In other words, it is all just about complete malarky, intended to mislead and misdirect and keep the real secret still secret -- Win 10 phone is a flop but it is still the great white hope for Windows 10's total future gro..... Please remember, the Win Phone total pie can shrink simply because Android GREW in the same time period.wth.


     
...... is it any wonder people are fleeing Win phone as fast as they can?    Nor why MS resorts to funny numbers to make their stuff seem larger than it is?

http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/11/windows-10-class-action-microsoft/

Windows 10 Users May Pursue Class-Action Against Microsoft

The message says that after upgrading to Windows 10 via ‘automatic updates’ thousands of the PCs have “been rendered useless,” and left with 1. no sound, 2. no operating screen time 3. no access (password issues) 3. memory issues 4. lost files 5. unauthorized access by Microsoft.”

Meanwhile, the lead enjoyed by the Windows 10 over the adoption rate of Windows 7 at the same post-launch point in its lifecycle evaporated. Windows 10 has lost its lead despite it being offered for free, claims data from a Web analytics firm.

Art, there are about 30% of the Win 10 population who report "no issues" when answering polls.

Sad part is some start out with no issues and then get one later on, unnecessarily, due to a new  update that does not agree with their machine.

Some machines are odd,  the ones who were tweeked by the maker with custom drivers to suit abnormal hardware mixes (generally Compaq did this, said it made their machines faster than normal.   Dell does it too.)

Now here comes MS, wanting to do it their way, automatically  ....  on non-standard equipment that has been sitting there for 3-10 years now.