Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windows XP still above 27%

Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by afhsfsfdsss88 on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @10:05PM (#7513122)

If you are talking about built-in Defender being the tipping point to compel you to move to Windows 8 from Windows 7...

That is a non-reason, reason. MSE is 100% free and the same damn thing. The phishing filters and other BS is part of IE, which is also present in Windows 7, not Windows 8 specific. The ASLR, et al are in both versions.

There is really nothing tangible which compels an informed PC user to 'upgrade' to Windows 8 from Windows 7.

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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by ubercow13 on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @12:27AM (#7513568)

>There is really nothing tangible which compels an informed PC user to 'upgrade' to Windows 8 from Windows 7

There are loads of things! What a silly thing to say. Try reading any article about Windows 8 which doesn't focus on the metro aspect

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Re:Windows 7 outgains Windows 8 in market share again, Windo... by afhsfsfdsss88 on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @09:50AM (#7515464)

My conclusion does not stem from articles. It comes from actually using it next to 7, doing the same user and admin tasks I usually do. Without third party software to reign-in Metro it dominates and cripples the experience for a PC use case.

The ONLY thing I wish 7 could steal from 8 is the task manager...

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