As the article notes, the increase seems to be driven mainly by users in Asia, where recycling and reusing older hardware is quite common. I wonder if third-party companies are offering extended security patches there, which could make affordable second-hand Windows 7 machines more appealing for people who just need them for browsing or light tasks. It would certainly make sense given recent fiascos and Microsoft’s current stance on AI, especially with generative AI being used to develop system-level code.
Tbf proton evolving fast as he doing, soon i won’t even will need windows beside my workplace notebook
Possibly from people booting up 15 year old laptops to see if they‘re still running so they can install linux on them before trying it on the big machine. Yes, this is my made up narrative but I believe that more than in a Win7 comeback.
- Windows 7 was used to browse more web pages on a subset of sites that use the Statcounter plugin, and mostly in one area of the world.
But that doesn’t make a good headline.
Still, it’s unusual for that to happen.
Thanks Microsoft spokesman.
Why is it that these scores are taken at face value until a corporation doesn’t like them? What you think 4% of a random set of servers suddenly started using Windows 7 to bot pages to drum up Windows 7 support?
I think that it’s a possibility for the rest of the world.
It’s okay, Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows you’ll need!!!
It was. Linux Mint has been beautiful since I switched last year. Certainly nicer than windows.
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Yep, Bazzite has been great for me on my gaming PC. Never going back.
Year of the Windows 7 Desktop?!
Don’t have a link to the thread on Mastodon, but it was only in Singapore. So it is likely a troll or some glitch.
Not from Mastodon, but from looking at the map for September:
Here’s a link to the rest of the map You’ll have to mouse over the different countries here, but regardless of whatever the heck is happening in Singapore, windows 7 is still sitting between 15-5% in other countries across Asia. and 10 is still nowhere near the “safe” levels for EoL coming up.
This is almost certainly a sampling error.
It makes me a bit sad that there is a whole article on a (very likely) mirage
One caveat here: Statcounter provides no explanation for this unusual surge, so these figures should be treated with a certain amount of skepticism. Could there be a measurement error involved?*
A bot farm changed their spoofing to show Windows 7 by accident. /s. But it would be funny if that’s what happened
they’re using AI to generate system level code?
holy shit this is the dumbest way to destroy civilizationAny chance this will lead Microsoft to re-evaluate its use of AI?
Absolutely zero.
Why should we hope for that? Let’s use this moment to embrace Linux instead and never look back.
lol no, VC funding line goes up
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