Interesting that Windows 7 is still twice as common as Windows 10.
I found it interesting as well that more people seem to be using IE 7 vs 9 or 10.
It's because 9 + 10 auto-upgrade to 11 unless you turn it off in automatic updates.
Windows dips below 50% of web traffic to US govt websites
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#12Mobile keep growing which is the result of the dip in traffic from windows. As a desktop, windows still strong.
Unless you can show absolute numbers, you can't call it a "dip". Like many in various industries there has been a huge push to support mobile, and thus the effect the larger % of the population who use mobiles vs pc's comes into effect
Why is that? He's just pointing out that the dwindling numbers are not necessarily because of a desktop market share decline but because of the growth of mobile. We're seeing this everywhere.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless you can show absolute numbers, you can't call it a "dip". Like many in various industries there has been a huge push to support mobile, and thus the effect the larger % of the population who use mobiles vs pc's comes into effect
Why is that? He's just pointing out that the dwindling numbers are not necessarily because of a desktop market share decline but because of the growth of mobile. We're seeing this everywhere.
The point is, as a _share_ the numbers are dwindling, but we can't tell from the share numbers whether the _absolute numbers_ are dwindling, stagnant, or still growing (albeit slower than mobile growth).
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#14I think Windows has become obsolete. For most people it's now something you choose to install in increasingly annoying update windows vs automatically installed on new PCs that used to sell like hotcakes. Everyone was automatically opted out of Windows 10 as they kept using old computers with no compelling reasons to buy a new PC again (probably 'ever' for most people). Phones usurped a lot of tasks that are more con…
Well unless apple releases iPad Pro that can actually run programs instead of "apps" from store then maybe. But it's not the case.
And for Chromebook, I don't think it's even close.
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#15Interesting that Windows 7 is still twice as common as Windows 10.
Don't know about the US government specifically however it's not uncommon for the government to be the biggest single user of it's websites, followed usually by business/corporate users. If this is the case in the US also then a lot of business users have not upgraded to Windows 10 yet.
Hey dogma1138, I manage this program. Only about 4% of total traffic is from within US gov networks.
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#16I am visiting elderly relatives this week, so I get my anecdotal updates. The Windows machine was under a towel (for dust) which basically means it isn't being used anymore. The story: after clicking no every time, his Windows 7 machine auto-upgraded to Windows 10. He has figured out how load Internet Explorer to find his links, but is baffled by the rest of Windows. So he went out and upgraded his phone to a new Samsung smartphone and uses it for all of his email and web searches. He still needs a bigger device and is planning to buy an Android tablet because he thinks it will be similar to his phone and easier than figuring out Windows 10. He also wanted to know if he can still get viruses on Windows 10, which is his other reason to switch to Android.
I showed him how he can use voice to interact with his device because his eyesight keeps him from using his devices for long periods of time. Saying "Ok Google" is really un-intuitive, he actually wrote it down. Also, he found new games to replace the ones he played on Windows.
So this Windows 10 auto-update could very well be pushing people to abandon their desktop/laptop altogether if they don't have a use case forcing them to keep Windows.
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#17Interesting that Windows 7 is still twice as common as Windows 10.
Don't know about the US government specifically however it's not uncommon for the government to be the biggest single user of it's websites, followed usually by business/corporate users. If this is the case in the US also then a lot of business users have not upgraded to Windows 10 yet.
The US Postal Services' websites are by far the most visited.
Followed by things like the Weather services and then things related to health or social security.
Those are "costumer"-oriented sites. But then again, some of them could be browsing from their work computers.
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#18Wow, that's a US government page. Good job!
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#19I think Windows has become obsolete. For most people it's now something you choose to install in increasingly annoying update windows vs automatically installed on new PCs that used to sell like hotcakes. Everyone was automatically opted out of Windows 10 as they kept using old computers with no compelling reasons to buy a new PC again (probably 'ever' for most people). Phones usurped a lot of tasks that are more con…
I'm not sure there's a single task that I've found more convenient to do on a phone than a desktop.
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#20I think Windows has become obsolete. For most people it's now something you choose to install in increasingly annoying update windows vs automatically installed on new PCs that used to sell like hotcakes. Everyone was automatically opted out of Windows 10 as they kept using old computers with no compelling reasons to buy a new PC again (probably 'ever' for most people). Phones usurped a lot of tasks that are more con…
Well unless apple releases iPad Pro that can actually run programs instead of "apps" from store then maybe. But it's not the case. And for Chromebook, I don't think it's even close.
This is obviously anecdotal but I work on a somewhat popular web game (millions of sessions/month despite having a mobile app) and Chrome OS (1.15%) represents less of our sessions than even 3rd place Linux (1.23%). We actually get almost as many people visiting our web game from a mobile device _by mistake_. So to put it lightly, Chromebook has some work to do.