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1. #Os market share linus 2015 update#
2. #Os market share linus 2015 driver#
3. #Os market share linus 2015 windows 10#

#Os market share linus 2015 driver#

Windows got better versions of DirectX and games became more stable once the Windows GPU driver model improved, but there was no practical benefit to being both an Xbox gamer and a PC gamer. Under Ballmer, Microsoft built Xbox up from nothing while largely ignoring its own ownership of PC gaming. I’ve never been shy about criticizing Microsoft, but the company has done a remarkable job in building a business on cloud computing in a way it never did in mobile. OS updates were a lot more exciting when one of the delivered features was “Fewer daily BSODs!” Microsoft Isn’t Looking Backwards It’s still not as exciting as knowing I could cut the number of times a person needed to reboot their PC from 1x – 3x per day on Windows ME to 1x per week - or less - on Windows XP.

#Os market share linus 2015 update#

Any performance uplift from an OS update is welcome, and hybrid x86 CPUs like Lakefield and Alder Lake are likely the future of computing. One interesting news story that broke earlier this week suggests that Windows 11 may run 5-8 percent faster on hybrid x86 CPUs. The characteristics that defined Windows in its early days have become something of a straitjacket in the modern era. Surface RT couldn’t do that, and frustrated customers returned the device in droves. When people bought a Windows device, they expected the ability to run Windows x86 applications. Customers have embraced Surface as a brand, but they hated Microsoft’s first attempt to build ARM devices.

#Os market share linus 2015 windows 10#

I won’t claim that Windows 10 got the same sunny reception Windows 7 did, but its UI was generally hailed as an improvement - and, again, a return to form. Microsoft tried to reinvent the PC UI again with Windows 8. They praised Windows 7, which was seen as a modest, welcome course correction.

When Microsoft positioned Vista as a dramatic reinvention of desktop computing, users hated it. Task Manager would come along a year later, in 1996. The Windows desktop, taskbar, Start Menu, and File Explorer all debuted (or debuted in something like their current forms) for the first time with Windows 95. The reason people lined up around the block to buy Windows 95 is that it promised a quantum leap forward for PCs could do and how they were organized. I don’t doubt that Microsoft would love to return to the days when PC owners wrapped themselves around buildings for the chance to buy an operating system, but there’s no realistic chance of it doing so. But once Microsoft became the default choice for more than 90 percent of the market, the only question left to answer was whether the new version of Windows sucked more or less than the previous one. It was what Microsoft’s customers wanted. It was absolutely the right move for Microsoft to make. Windows XP was far more stable than Win 9x had ever been and unifying its consumer and professional product families gave Microsoft reason to improve its software compatibility and gaming performance relative to Win 2K. Few computing transitions have been more praised. Microsoft helped bring the era of general-purpose, consumer-oriented OS recommendations to a close when it launched Windows XP in 2001.