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Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 18 hours ago by spicehoarder@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 151 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)
  • 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.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Could it be that something is spoofing a Win7 signature?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

I personally just edited the registry to stom my Win10 upgrading to 11. If it fails, it's Manjaro time.

[–] xep@discuss.online 1 points 8 minutes ago

If you disable TPM in your bios, W11 won't install, nor update if it is already installed.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Still, it's unusual for that to happen.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 10 points 7 hours ago

Ehh, bots have always presented nonsense UAs to servers. And since modern browsers hard-code the OS version in the UA string, pretending to be an old browser on an old OS could be a (probably ineffectual) way to bypass fingerprinting.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 20 points 17 hours ago

I think that it's a possibility for the rest of the world.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world -5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Look at the data: https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/asia/#monthly-202408-202509

Or more specifically https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/singapore/#monthly-202408-202509

All the data is nice and smooth, slow rises or declines, as usual.

And then all of a sudden in July and only ins Singapore, Windows 7 goes from <2% to 92%. All other asian countries stay about the same.

Does this sound likely to you that 90% of users uninstall Win10 and Win11 in Singapore to install Win7 and all that in a span of just two months?

Or is it more likely that there's some bug (or some botnet) causing false stats?