With the humorously tight margin between the release of the Windows RTM and the release date for the rest of the world it is not surprising that new laptops and desktops were not available with Windows 10 installed. All that changed the next week when there were actual machines available of which some were even purchased. According to the information given to The Register there were 150 machines sold in Europe and while they did not have exact numbers for the North American market it is not going to be significantly different. It looks like the new OS is not bringing the large surge in PC sales that companies were hoping for immediately, perhaps as more systems become available with new hardware we will start to see the increase.
"No PCs pre-loaded with Windows 10 made their way into distributors’ warehouses in the week before launch of the OS – but by golly, they did in seven days after the 'big event'."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Taking Back Control Of Windows 10 Updates @ Techgage
- Malformed .MOV files can murder your movies @ The Register
- Network flaw allows hackers to intercept calls and track location of 'billions' @ The Inquirer
- The Network Is Hostile @ Slashdot
- IBM makes 'biggest code drop' as Canonical and Suse tie-up brings better Linux to mainframes @ The Inquirer
- ASUS ZenPad 7.0 (Z370CG) Sneak Peek @ TechARP
- Linux 4.2 release 'possible' for next week, if Linus feels good @ The Register
Not with that EULA giving M$
Not with that EULA giving M$ the rights to root around and sniff ones personal files like a pig in search of prize truffles, for those juicy metrics and what M$ says is for DRM, or other purposes. With even some police forces not able to conduct such digital dragnets the way that M$ is to be allowed once the user agrees by clicking that button! I just wonder if that EULA is actually totally legal with the extent of its built-in metrics gathering for purposes other than to simply secure M$ own products. Giving M$ the authority to banish even some hardware that M$’s metrics gathering algorithms may deem ban worthy and could cause the users a great deal of disruption should M$’s usual error prone proclivities pan out in new directions. Those numbers will be fluctuating as more users get the total gist of M$’s brave new EULA that definitely takes things much too far and leaves the user a mere sharecropper on their own hardware. That 30 days before the point of no return will have many going back to 7, or even the hated 8, just to be more secure in their privacy. The thought of having my voice spectrographically analyzed on every occasion, and the resulting analysis stored on M$’s, and the government’s data stores does not appeal to me, or with having my personal file space scanned over at M$’s will. There are already problems with that force-feeding of updates, and M$ has been reissuing on a more than regular basis the first few weeks since 10’s release. And a reminder that on new OEM hardware the ships with a factory installed windows 10 image there is the “option” for the OEM to not supply any windows secure boot off switch in the new device’s UEFI/BIOS, another problem for those want to re-image to another OS on their new hardware before even letting the process of accepting that draconian EULA for 10 run at all. M$ will still be in control of that UEFI/BIOS and the windows secure boot key signing authority.
No one is pushing anyone to
No one is pushing anyone to upgrade their hardware. People also have the option to upgrade their OS for free and almost automatically. Why would there be any type of surge in sales? Did Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 led to more sales?
no, and lol, neither did the
no, and lol, neither did the upgrade to win 8.1!
It’s getting harder and
It’s getting harder and harder for me to feel comfortable buying any new hardware from OEM’s for fear that I will not be able to turn secure boot off on laptops with 10 factory installed and load any other OS on the device! Windows 8 has permanently disrupted my yearly new hardware purchasing cadence. The last thing I want to be doing is RMA-ing my new laptop because it can not be easily loaded with the OS of choice, or even be able to be downgraded to a version of the same OS that does not support windows secure boot(Win 7). That and the difficulty in getting CPU/APU parts that are explicitly specified to run at the full wattage of the CPU/APU SKU part on laptops. I do not want to have a laptop with a 15 watt throttled part when that very same part can run at 35 watts in a normal from factor laptop. The Carrizo APU part is a prime example, too many new laptops are using the 15 watt metric when I want and will pay for a guaranteed 35 watt running metric on a little thicker with a little beefier cooling solution regular laptop. The Ultrabook form factor is just a waste of a good CPU/APU, and sometimes even the discrete mobile GPU can find itself throttled. At the utmost certainty windows 10 and its unacceptable EULA terms will keep me from updating my hardware once again, and this time around I am now also actively searching for Linux options on new laptop hardware instead of waiting for even a closer date towards 2020 and 7’s potential EOL before getting a laptop with a Linux distro factory installed.
I’m tired of asking the online sales slackjaws if the CPU/APU/SOC part on the laptop has the thermal specifications to run the processor at the full 35 watts, and want to be able to purchase a laptop with the OS of choice, and the run the processor at its full potential wattage to get all the performance for my money. This one size/one thermal usage/one battery usage profile fits all marketing driven design ethos is what has ruined the PC/Laptop market for increased sales! That and lack of a usable OS that does its most productive job, and stays out of user’s personal business.
I am not surprised by the low
I am not surprised by the low numbers. For a lot of people like myself, it is simply just cheaper, and I mean a whole lot cheaper to simply just upgrade my existing machine to the free OS upgrade and this free OS upgrade is what has stopped many people from getting any new hardware.
You also have to remember Win
You also have to remember Win 10 was supposed to ship in October. The fact that there are so many people having driver issues of all types leads me to believe hardware driver development just couldn’t make the rushed July 29 date.
New sales has nothing to do
New sales has nothing to do with it. Market share is the key. It only matters how many people are USING Windows 10. People don’t buy a new computer because a new OS is released. To think otherwise is just absurd. Especially when anyone with Windows 7+ can upgrade for free.
Well, so far Windows 10
Well, so far Windows 10 collects colossal 0.375 per cent market share in July
It collects a colossal amount
It collects a colossal amount of personal information. Thats probably why no one wants this preinstalled spyware.